http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2012/09/08/man-with-a-mine-of-his-own/

I sat down with them a couple of days ago, having a chat about Minecraft. Apparently we’re on the front page of the paper. So Hi! to all the Rocky people who are interested.

If you don’t have Minecraft (the program) we don’t sell it – You buy it from Minecraft.net. But you don’t need to be online to play it. You can play it offline just as well as you can online. We just give you the social aspect.

You also don’t need to donate to play. This is totally a free server, you can go wild. Donators have a few perks, but we’ve tried to make it non game-breaking for everyone else, whilst still giving the D’s a bit of cred.

Everything seems to have stabilized… We’re immune to DDOSing. Everything is now on a stable platform (did I mention how bad Azure is? No? Well it’s terrible) and things are back in place.

So. I think it’s time that I re-open D’s.    For those that have been waiting, you can finally get your D on!

Head on over to the Donators page, put your username in and click on the ‘Subscribe’ button, and I’ll make it happen as soon as I can.

And for those that DO donate – thanks. You are the ones that remind me why I keep providing MCAU to everyone.

So now I’m putting the finishing touches back on everything.  We have live maps again! Yay!

http://maps.mcau.org

Also, Experience Bottles have been fixed (sorry – they were accidently blocked.)

I’m also getting ready to fire up Donations again, for those that wish to continue to Donate. Remember, I love donators, and I think you’re all wonderful!

I do realise that that’s a technical term, that you may not be familiar with. I apologise.

However, it’s terrible. We’ve been having problems with one of the instances (virtual machines) that we’re running inside Azure. As soon it had the slightest bit of load on it, it would suddenly think that its hard drive was faulty, and lock up.  This isn’t what I expect from a cloud provider that’s meant to care deeply about reliability and redunancy.

Then I remembered, this is Microsoft. If there’s one company that doesn’t care about reliability, it’s Microsoft. How foolish of me.

So. Now we’re hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (aka, EC²). Amazon know how to make a service reliable, and so far have done well.  So everything’s now here. Lets see how this goes!

Well, now that we seem to have stabilized (fingers crossed), here’s some news on what’s happening.  YES, I am thinking about firing up a RolePlay server. There’s been a discussion about it in the forums, and I think it should be able to go ahead.  We’re still thinking about what plugins to use, and if you have any feedback, I’d love to hear it in the forum.

Also, apparently I’m getting interviewed by the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin tomorrow. About Minecraft. Coz it’s awesome. Or something.