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Within the past 6 days, we’ve added three pieces of hardware. Two are already sold out and the third is coming online tonight!

The hardware added was as follows:

pico.hostedgameservers.com
8Gb – 4 cores

hope.hostedgameservers.com
8Gb – 4 cores

love.hostedgameservers.com
16Gb – 8 cores

If you have lag anywhere, let support know so we can move your server to a new server that has sufficient room. We still have a couple boxes where we know customers are having spikes and we’re going to be sending out some offers to migrate those users.

We’re going to be sold out again for a few hours while we get some more hardware online. Sorry!

Edit: Back online!

A nice person has decided to continue developing hMod for newer Minecraft versions! You can get a working hMod jar file for your Minecraft server here: http://hmod.buxville.net/showthread.php?tid=22.

To install this on HGS, you simply do the following:

1) Download the hmod.zip file file by following the links above.

2) Unzip hmod.zip

3) Upload the Minecraft_Mod.jar file to your Minecraft server. Do not delete your minecraft_server.jar file!

4) Login to HGSPanel and switch your ‘mod jar file’ location to the exact name, including proper case, of the .jar file you downloaded and uploaded to your server.

5) Click ‘save settings’ and restart your server.

Thats it! You should now have a working hMod (Hey0) Minecraft server!! The world makes sense again.

If you’re happy about this, give some attention to the kind guys at The Unofficial Minecraft Forum.

One of our 10 slot server owners took the time out to write about his server on the forums, so I’m taking the time to post about him on the status feed (I hate the word blog). Drop him a line and help him build great things!

NOTE: Ehhh it seems to me too many people are using this instead of the support forum, so i decided to make a post about my server, Feel free to delete/move it if it belongs elsewhere.

AND ANOTHER NOTE: Another Anti-Greifing Measure we have is that to actually place blocks, you must come onto the server and then register by contacting the admins, we then add you to a builder group. (And Yes, You have to register, BUT IT’S EASEH!!!

96.44.181.213:25567

Hey Thar,

Look at my server, NOW BACK TO YOURS. now back to mine. sadly, yours is not mine.
This is my Map:

The Town [Named Panama]-

Our Pixel Art Wall [By Hoopi2 & Suyasa]-

Our Server consists of around 10 Regular Users,
we have 15 Slots and we are mainly Australian.
We think of ourselves as average builders and pretty friendly too.

As of Now[ Monday 24th, January ] We currently have a different map
because hMod is dead and Bukkit isn’t finished yet, and they previously supplied
anti-griefing protection…

But Yeah! That’s about all, i’ll just list a couple of cool things noaw:
A Fully Functional Railway System spanning 3000 Blocks (MINIMUM!)
An Epic pixel art wall which is eye candy!
a Huge Mob killer which is fun to push your friends into to steak their Stuff
A nice community
A Thriving and bustling town
The Admins reward people for helping with Diamond Kits

So we’ve been rooting around on the internet trying to find dedicated game server files for Breach. They don’t exist yet. You can create a dedicated server by going to the tools section within steam, but that requires leaving an entire PC open and hooked up to a monitor. Lame!

Obviously, in order for us to host game servers for a game, it needs to run from the command line and accept a set of parameters like IP, port, slot count, password and maybe even map name. The good folks at Atomic Games will have none of that. They think that P2P gaming with joysticks on XBoxes is the best thing ever. Obviously none of them know squat!

Dedicated game servers are good for more reasons that just perfromance. It’s a constant place to login to without having a predefined list of friends to play with. It can be moded. It can host custom maps. It’s a place to centrally gather. The list goes on, really.

Beyond all that opinionated junk, the only way to host a Breach game server right now is to open up a window on a system. If you work for Atomic and you’re reading this… spend the time to develop a command line server. You’ll be happy you did. Breach is a good game and it sucks having to watch people brush it off because you fail to include features. PC gaming isn’t dying, people just don’t appreciate or cater to its benefits.

I wasn’t really happy with the old forum’s looks. I gave it a quick two hour re-do and I think it’s looking much better now.

I also made some spam changes to help prevent the posts about random drugs that we’ve been seeing. I’m not sure how these people get past captcha images but I’m starting to think they actually hire people to type them in.

Check out the new forum at forum.hostedgameservers.com and let us know what you think!

For a few days we were advocating that people install SimpleServer… but then we started getting some complaints.

I looked into it today and discovered that when simpleserver generates its own .properties file, it sets defaults… no matter what you put in it, or any other .properties file. This means that no matter what you tell it, it only listens on the default port, uses a gig of memory and has a zillion slots set.

So, from here on out, we can’t support simpleserver until they fix their nonsense. Sorry!

Here’s the update on our forum with the notification at the bottom:
http://forum.hostedgameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=383&p=110

We’re having an issue with apache becoming unresponsive on our web server. I emailed someone I know because I have yet been unable to fix the problem…. it’s pretty weird and I have a fishy feeling its our VPS provider that our web hosting runs on… oh man migrating HGSPanel would suck.

But – thats what we’re gonna do if we find out thats the problem!

We’re sorry for the website being unavailable. We’re working on this random oddity.

A new server, “Hope” is online on the West Coast. You can migrate your servers there using the ‘migrate server to new location’ option in the panel.

http://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/

APB Reloaded closed beta signups are open! Whooohooo!