Ahoy ye rapscallion’s!

Little Story
You may have noticed I haven’t been around on the server much recently, thats because I have been hard at work finding, securing and setting up PirateCraft with some much needed new hardware, you heard me, a new host.
In the past I have just moved the server to a new host (3 moves so far), but this time I want to do it properly, make sure this is well fitted for us and future projects before I move us over for the foreseeable future.
I started looking into expansion December 2015, Figured out what I wanted and then had to fight hand and tooth for a month straight to actually get the server, limited stock per week and a 5000 person strong waiting list, made it near impossible, I wrote my own script to alert me when one was available.

Current Vs New
We currently (PirateCraft now) are on a Shared host, Shared hosting is a company that buys dedicated servers, splits them up into VPS, then splits these up into minecraft server hosting. we currently share with other people that host minecraft servers, this causes a multitude of issues. This is actually the third server I have bought and tested without the community knowing in the last year, I first tried 2 VPS’s that just were lacking, I finally settled that we would need a fully dedicated server for PirateCraft, thats no sharing, all ours! Yo ho ho!

On paper it seems as though this would be amazing upgrade, from Shared CPU resources to a dedicated CPU, 3GB ram to 16GB, but I’m worried the CPU may not be strong enough to cope with us all, so I need you to jump on and use this test server as much as you would on the main server, so I can make sure it can handle us. Im running a CPU, RAM and Network monitoring tools as well as TPS monitoring that includes a bunch of geeky data.

What have I been doing this January 2016?
Now I’ve spent the last few weeks setting this Dedicated server up, this includes all OS, Security, applications we need to run all that technical jazz, Im at a stage where I need the community to help me test it before we can progress.

What I need you to do
Is get ya pirate-booths on this server test.piratemc.com in ye crews, in-bulk, and go mental, play out every single plugin on the server, I need to know If I have missed anything, I need to make sure no plugins are broken, I need you to sail and shoot cannons, blow things up and put the server through its paces, use your redstone devices, farm and do what you do.

• Notes about the new Dedicated Server
  This is a complete duplicate of the main server running now, I made a copy of all data today (27th January 2016) I copied over the megaton of data through the day as I’ve had a busy day, but its all roughly from today.
• Obviously, this data will be the same as it was at the time I copied this over, I don’t want any stupid “My balance is missing $100!” posts, this is a test server copied at the date above.
• This test server will be updated as soon as we decide to make it go live as the main server, this means anything that is done on it will be updated with whats happened on the current live server. This means you can go have your ship battles, blow up bases, spend all your money, and it will all be put back when we decide to migrate to the live state of the live server.
• Dedicated server reboots 1 times a day! I’ve had enough of these 4x a day BS! That happens at 10am GMT, so about 5am US time.
• Slots have doubled, I’m not sure if this will be able to cope, but thats why we test, I have no idea what the server can cope with, this is why we need to test it. Ive set it at 100, as thats what I want it to be.
• We have a stronger backbone for expanding, we now run a bungee network on here, this means we can start up new servers whenever I please and add them to the same network, so we can jump between servers easily without it seeming like we are even changing server, at present we only have the Survival open to the public.
• We are using the default minecraft port 25565! Why is this a big thing? at present we use an SRV record to re-route our domain to the correct IP:port, this sometimes does not resolve in the minecraft server list saying that you cannot connect to the server when its actually up.
• Live map is at http://test.piratemc.com:8123/

Future plans include:

• Expanding the main world when all plugins and spigot are updated and working with 1.9.
• Adding a new no-tp, no-map world to the survival (No ETA don’t ask.)
• Depending on resources, I plan to have a games server, a hub (small adventure) and a creative. Survival will always be our forefront and our main concern, I despise how most networks run with giant ghastly hubs, we will always stick to our small community based routes, these all also depend on the resources consumed by the survival. Again not ETA so do not ask me, if you catch people bugging me please put them in their rightful place.

Make this clear, this is not a thread for discussing ideas, if you have an idea create a new thread in the suggestions, this is 100% for testing and reporting back to me, anything else will be deleted.

Whats the god damn IP already!?
test.piratemc.com

Is there a map?

Yeah its here: http://test.piratemc.com:8123/

Whens this going to go live?

When I’m happy everything will run smoothly with room for us to upgrade everything in the near future.

Will I loose what I do on this test server?

Yes, this is a test server, it will have all data moved over from the main server when we decide to go live.

Whats my incentive for playing if nothing will be saved?

It needs to be tested, sadly there are no ways to test players being on the server and using it, unless you put players on the server and test it. Plus, anyone that puts in time to help me test this server and reports and issues here, or even just plays on the test server for a long time to help the CPU & RAM tests will get a care package, make sure to tell me what you have been testing (farming etc) and times you were on/time played, you can edit your posts as to not clog this thread up.