The last time I saw the minecraft server working properly was on Wednesday night. But our server's been down through all of Thursday, and today it's still down. So I was thinking that something serious seems to have happened to Brohoster. ALL of their servers are down, and you can't even connect to brohoster's website. You'd think they'd send an email out, but they haven't even updated their facebook page about it. And now I see some rumors going around that Brohoster is gone forever. So far it's looking like those rumors are true.

It looks like Brohoster and ClubUpTime were the same thing: http://clubuptime.com/
I've also come across stories of severe internal conflict within the company, how the workers hated what their boss was doing, and how they've essentially stopped paying the bills, leading to them getting unplugged.

Now we have to decide what we want to do here. We could wait the 4-6 weeks for a backup to be available and then start using another service. But with summer ending so quickly I think it might just be in our best interest to get a new server entirely and start from scratch.

Well, this sucks.

When was the last backup?

I have no idea. It's just our luck that this happens when BOTH Isa and Bmw are gone. -_-

Does this mean we lose everything?

Does this mean we lost our Interguild Minecraft server?

I guess we should have looked up why the price of a server suddenly went up when we upgraded it to 12 ppl.

Anyways, I guess we should find a way to contact them to see if the info is available.

Seriously, they had to be away at a time like this. Isn't there something that says something about things going wrong at the worst possible time?

But this will apparently take 4-6 weeks to complete, and like I said, with summer ending so quickly (I go back to school on August 22nd) it may be better to just start from scratch than to wait for a backup. And yet, we should probably wait for either bmw or isa to get back before making a move.

sorry for being so ignorant of the matter, but what is brohoster? i was over at my friend's house the other day showing the server... it looked really good D: what can be done to save the progress?

Brohoster host our server, we buy it from them.

o.o uh oh.

All the drama unfolding, ft. JWJ

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1097710-Brohoster-Proving-their-Excellent-Services-Yet-Again

I don't know what the website used to be, but it definitely seems like an improvement.

because anything named foohy.net couldn't have possibly been all that great?

So what do you guys think about the idea of starting a new server from scratch? Do any of you think we should get a backup at all costs? Even if we end up without a server for a few weeks?

No fear. Reading this and I'll get back to you on everything I've been told in emails - just let me read them

I HAVEN'T been informed in emails. NOTHING.

I suggest moving to another server ASAP, those backups may very well not be coming up. Everyone link us to your favorite server provider. Livio and I should discuss funding for that later on.

I'm sure there are tons of people nowadays who are looking for brohoster replacements. You could probably find some discussions about good replacement hosts. Otherwise, I'm really ignorant about hosts.

Ummmm... I just tried to go on the server, and, well, it worked.
Am I missing something?

Yes, Brohoster are back up for a week to allow people to get there files back. After that it's gone.

And, I personally would like to start from scratch again, It might get me back into minceraft.

TBH, even if Brohster does stay I don't want to be customers for them. The seem to be an extremly corrupt company. Besides, they only have one employee (all the others have gone to make a new website with former CEO JWJ).

Im pretty sure the new website they're making is www.lethaldrive.com

That isn't up yet.

So what are we going to do? Take the old map with us or creating a new one? If we go with the new map, we can do our idea of splitting the map into two. Simply build a wall at spawn and everything at one side can be build using cheats and everything on the other side can't.

maybe the nether can be the old map?

Poll time.

Regardless of whether we're going to keep the old stuff, we should still take this opportunity to start downloading the server backup. Just in case.

As much as I'd hate to lose the epic world we made so far, the excitement that comes with starting from scratch sure is tempting. I've got plenty of ideas on how we could set things up next time. Maybe I'll start a topic about it one of these days.

72 hours.