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.

^^ Please note the portscan bans are automated. I don't do it myself.

Hello, hasphetica SMP!

I'm just updating you on some changes.

Arch Linux mirror status-- It's in!

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

More aggressive security measures

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 the server. If you get banned unfairly or out of the blue, please reach out to me-- as the system is still in testing.

Hello, Hasphetica SMP members!

This announcement discusses when maintenance periods are scheduled, why they're scheduled, and how those times were scheduled.

When are maintenance periods?

2pm - 4pm on Thursdays of every week.

Why is maintenance scheduled?

To regularly test backups, preform system updates, and general tidying up. Sometimes I may make improvements to the site.

Why did you schedule at this time?

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.

I will try to keep status.hasphetica.win up during these periods, but I can make no promises; sorry!

Hey, people! Just letting you know now, we have a map!

https://map.hasphetica.win/