{"id":716,"date":"2020-08-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letsbuildroboticswithshadow8472.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2020-08-16T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:43:56","slug":"716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letsbuildroboticswithshadow8472.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/716\/","title":{"rendered":"First Week of Professional Minecraft Server Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, my family&#8217;s Minecraft server is off to external hosting. Let&#8217;s get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apex Minecraft Hosting: If I had to give them one thing, it would be that it was easy to get things going first try. On the other hand, I&#8217;m having trouble with fine-tuning things. This is the story of how my family&#8217;s server, Creepers N Cream, is moving to professional hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A streamer friend by the name of DS9Fireblade speaks highly of Apex&#8217;s customer support, particularly their live chat service. I&#8217;ve only interacted with them over support tickets, and I will say they get back decently quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know I said the server was graduating a while a while ago, but there is something to be said about keeping things going with the hardware you have, and I had a hard time accepting the transition. It took a soft merger with DS9&#8217;s newer, but larger community before I was willing to budge. With more people possibly coming on, the already overworked CPU would be at even more of a loss to keep things going smoothly. When DS9&#8217;s server experienced an anomaly during a version upgrade, I moved to push Creepers up to hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would say anyone with a decent amount of basic Minecraft server hosting experience should be able to migrate a world with Apex. I prefer the sleek aesthetics of MineOS&#8217;s web interface to Apex&#8217;s panel, but Apex&#8217;s panel has more complete functionality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thing I noticed right away was how Apex is using less RAM than  MineOS with just G1GC: at baseline, the server is now at just under 2GB while before, it was at 3GB when it wasn&#8217;t starting at 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learning a new interface can be overwhelming. My MineOS experience helped a lot, but I  came up wtih a list of things I wanted to talk with customer support about. I gave it a night or two, but when I got back into panel, I found the answers to some of my questions, though not all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At present, I still have a few concerns for tech support. Apex&#8217;s account information appears to be directly linked to billing information, and that includes e-mail. So far, I am the one maintaining the back end, but I am not the one financing things. I&#8217;d also like to see about getting all those UTC times moved to something I&#8217;m a little more familiar with; I couldn&#8217;t find that setting anywhere. And then, maybe I can see about addressing the scheduling for bi-daily restarts and backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final Question: When was the last time you have asked someone something, but got a bad answer because of a slightly different working definition of a word?<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, my family&#8217;s Minecraft server is off to external hosting. Let&#8217;s get started! Apex Minecraft Hosting: If I had to give them one thing, it would be that it was easy to get things going first try. 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