Hello,
as per my last communication, I made it aware that I was taking more aggressive security measures against port-scans. That being said, I have noted that these measures were, perhaps, too aggressive, and often had false-positive issues.
As such, port-scan blocking has since been removed.
Note that this has been replaced in favor of DDOS/DOS detection. Behaviors in leu of this will, still, get you banned, as per our terms-of-service.
Also, I've made some performance changes-- Ping, should, be far better now.
Hello, hasphetica SMP!
I'm just updating you on some changes.
We just recently became accepted as an arch linux mirror (https://archlinux.org/mirrors/hasphetica.win/) and I'm quite proud. Alongside this comes another announcement
Seeing as our website and server are all public, we get lots of bot traffic. As such, I've taken a more aggressive approach to defending against bots. As such, all portscans will lead to your IP being banned for up to 24 hours. Be a dear and don't portscan...
Hello, Hasphetica SMP members!
This announcement discusses when maintenance periods are scheduled, why they're scheduled, and how those times were scheduled.
2pm - 4pm on Thursdays of every week.
To regularly test backups, preform system updates, and general tidying up. Sometimes I may make improvements to the site.
I have absolutely nothing to do on Thursdays during this time. Alongside this, the folks on the arch mailing list (which is the distro I use for my systems) are the most active around this time.
Hello!
I'll keep the details short; When I made Hasphetica SMP, I created it with very little 'expandability' in mind. This period of maintenance will give me a chance to review the plugins we'll be using on the server, where it's located, and how you connect to the server itself. The hope is that it'll be brief.
You will NOT be able to join the server during this time.
With love,
Rose
[This will be reflected on our status page during.]