Emergency Maintenace / Rollback
Once again, we seem to be on a streak of bad luck and the gods of Minecraft don't want us to have fun. What happened now? The database's hard drive failed and we have to rollback to the latest backup which was made a few hours ago. However, keep reading: We have good news.
Reward to Compensate the rollback and downtime
All of our players that joined the server before today (over 2 500 000) will receive a 3-day booster (worth 9.99$ ea.) and more soon.
If you already have a booster, you can have multiple ones for later on.
To use your booster just type /booster or step on a redstone platform in a game lobby. Boosters can be activated at any time, so yes you can wait until next weekend or the holidays to use it. Once it's activated, the booster will last 3 days.
Don't worry the server store buycraft purchases were NOT affected, only stats, coins from playing, and leaderboards were affected.
For some players it won't seem like a big deal to lose a few hours of stats, but for others it is a huge deal because they play competitively. I've been trying my best to avoid this because I myself am a competitive player, but really we've exhausted every single possible solution and we have to bring the server back online so I came up with a solution, that I hope will satisfy your needs. The rollback is about 24 to 36 hours.
Update: We found the lost data. It will re-applied in the next 7 to 14 days.
We’re doing our best to retrieve the data on the faulty hard drive, and will merge the stats if we get the lost data. We’re also reworking our contingency plans, adding redundancy to the system and improving our backup systems (they weren’t fully set up on new network), so that this will never happen again. The reason it happened is because we moved to a new datacenter 4 days ago and didn't think we would crash an SSD in a short amount of time! Update: We found the lost data. It will re-applied in the next 7 to 14 days.
-- Personal Note --
Lately the random issues has personally affected me because I care about the server community and sometimes too much to a point where my health, family and friends are affected. I hope you guys understand what we are going through lately and keep playing, if it wasn't for all the bad lucks that we had, we would have way more classes/kits/maps/games but we are doing our best at this point and I appreciate your support and I'm glad that you guys seems to like my new game Mega Walls. Today was great for once until the drive died, so after that we should technically be stable and good to go.
Update: We found the lost data. It will re-applied in the next 7 to 14 days.
Thanks for your understanding,
Hypixel
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Reward to Compensate the rollback and downtime
All of our players that joined the server before today (over 2 500 000) will receive a 3-day booster (worth 9.99$ ea.) and more soon.
If you already have a booster, you can have multiple ones for later on.
To use your booster just type /booster or step on a redstone platform in a game lobby. Boosters can be activated at any time, so yes you can wait until next weekend or the holidays to use it. Once it's activated, the booster will last 3 days.
Don't worry the server store buycraft purchases were NOT affected, only stats, coins from playing, and leaderboards were affected.
For some players it won't seem like a big deal to lose a few hours of stats, but for others it is a huge deal because they play competitively. I've been trying my best to avoid this because I myself am a competitive player, but really we've exhausted every single possible solution and we have to bring the server back online so I came up with a solution, that I hope will satisfy your needs. The rollback is about 24 to 36 hours.
Update: We found the lost data. It will re-applied in the next 7 to 14 days.
We’re doing our best to retrieve the data on the faulty hard drive, and will merge the stats if we get the lost data. We’re also reworking our contingency plans, adding redundancy to the system and improving our backup systems (they weren’t fully set up on new network), so that this will never happen again. The reason it happened is because we moved to a new datacenter 4 days ago and didn't think we would crash an SSD in a short amount of time! Update: We found the lost data. It will re-applied in the next 7 to 14 days.
-- Personal Note --
Lately the random issues has personally affected me because I care about the server community and sometimes too much to a point where my health, family and friends are affected. I hope you guys understand what we are going through lately and keep playing, if it wasn't for all the bad lucks that we had, we would have way more classes/kits/maps/games but we are doing our best at this point and I appreciate your support and I'm glad that you guys seems to like my new game Mega Walls. Today was great for once until the drive died, so after that we should technically be stable and good to go.
Update: We found the lost data. It will re-applied in the next 7 to 14 days.
Thanks for your understanding,
Hypixel
Mega Walls public BETA
We just launched the public BETA of Mega Walls!
Feature 5 classes and 100 players per game, this new game is now ready for testing for everyone!
However due to the popularity of the game, we already ran out of servers, so we will be adding more by 1 PM Eastern.
Update #1
Added lots of servers but it's already full.
Update #2
Crashed - Will be back soon.
Update #3
We just had a drive failure on a critical machine, working to restore services.
Continue reading...
Feature 5 classes and 100 players per game, this new game is now ready for testing for everyone!
However due to the popularity of the game, we already ran out of servers, so we will be adding more by 1 PM Eastern.
Update #1
Added lots of servers but it's already full.
Update #2
Crashed - Will be back soon.
Update #3
We just had a drive failure on a critical machine, working to restore services.
Emergency Maintance
As many of you know earlier today with the public release of the Mega Walls Beta we encountered many lag issues with the network. We wanted to clear up some confusion about what exactly was going on. To begin with, the issues regarding lag were not Multiplay’s fault. There were database issues that caused most of the network to run very slowly as it processed all the changes. As a result, many of you experienced lag. The database issues had nothing to do with Multiplay, but rather to do with our own oversight of changes. It's now fixed, however, as of recently, we were hit with several large DDoS attacks. We are working very closely with Multiplay to mitigate against the attack and help defend against future ones.
We know a new host may seem like a big change, and it’s easy to blame all the problems on the change, but we wanted to take the blame for ourselves as it was our fault. We will continue to work with the new host to bring you guys the best performance possible and we hope that the future with Multiplay is bright. Thank you guys for your continued patience through our issues and we hope you all stick around to help the server continue to thrive.
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We know a new host may seem like a big change, and it’s easy to blame all the problems on the change, but we wanted to take the blame for ourselves as it was our fault. We will continue to work with the new host to bring you guys the best performance possible and we hope that the future with Multiplay is bright. Thank you guys for your continued patience through our issues and we hope you all stick around to help the server continue to thrive.
New Host - Multiplay
With this partnership, we moved the network to a new location, resulting in improved ping for the majority of players, especially those Europe while still maintaining a high quality in the Americas and Australia. The move also improves the flexibility of our infrastructure setup. Multiplay will also be coordinating with us beyond Minecraft Hosting, with tournaments, prizes, live events and also expansion further beyond Minecraft if needed.
Multiplay staff will have [Multiplay] on their names in blue and white and will be seen around on the server now again. If you see one be sure to say hello!
The Hypixel coupon 25% code they offer is available on all games such as Starbound, Minecraft, Battlefield 4, Terraria, etc. CLICK HERE and be sure that your referral code at checkout is entered as “Hypixel”. Using this code on checkout supports our server directly!
This decision was not easy because we had to end our partnership with MCProHosting. We remain good friends and they believed in us from day one, giving us the opportunity to be here today with this amazing community. I would like to thank Matt, James, Cory and all the staff at MCProHosting for the quality service they offered for the time we worked together, it was an amazing experience and will be forever grateful.
Thanks,
Hypixel
Maintenance
We will be doing a quick maintenance tonight to improve performances.
Starts at 10:30PM Sunday EST, should last about 10 to 15 minutes.
Your stats might not have been saved within the last hour, as the alerts were saying on the live network.
Update: Maintenance Done
We are almost ready to launch the server on the new Datacenter! I'll write up details soon.
Update #2: Move completed, official news in a bit.
Continue reading...
Starts at 10:30PM Sunday EST, should last about 10 to 15 minutes.
Your stats might not have been saved within the last hour, as the alerts were saying on the live network.
Update: Maintenance Done
We are almost ready to launch the server on the new Datacenter! I'll write up details soon.
Update #2: Move completed, official news in a bit.
Emergency Maintenance
Update #1
Starting new datacenter setup.
Update #2
Games, bungees, database and lobbies are all running fine. Renaming Walls 3 to Mega Walls and added the Enderman class.
Update #3
Ran into issues with the new setup we had in mind.
Update #4
Lots of optimization and configuration with this new setup needs to be done.
Update #5
Having issues with the current setup, considering reverting changes.
Update #6
We found the issue, fixing it up.
Update #7
The update to fix the issue is taking longer than expected, we are going to open the doors with the older build to keep you guys playing on this fine Thanksgiving long weekend, while we still work on the new one.
Update #8
Things on the new datacenter are ready, fixed and steady but we will wait Monday for official release.
We are NOT yet on the new datacenter/host. The issues of yesterday were caused by the process of transferring. (We tried to rush things, which is not good at our scale!)
Continue reading...
Starting new datacenter setup.
Update #2
Games, bungees, database and lobbies are all running fine. Renaming Walls 3 to Mega Walls and added the Enderman class.
Update #3
Ran into issues with the new setup we had in mind.
Update #4
Lots of optimization and configuration with this new setup needs to be done.
Update #5
Having issues with the current setup, considering reverting changes.
Update #6
We found the issue, fixing it up.
Update #7
The update to fix the issue is taking longer than expected, we are going to open the doors with the older build to keep you guys playing on this fine Thanksgiving long weekend, while we still work on the new one.
Update #8
Things on the new datacenter are ready, fixed and steady but we will wait Monday for official release.
We are NOT yet on the new datacenter/host. The issues of yesterday were caused by the process of transferring. (We tried to rush things, which is not good at our scale!)