Technical Overview - July

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Hello once again, we have come out of hiding in order to bring this terribly long document for your viewing pleasure. Below is a number of tech specific things we are working on or have recently completed, as well as a few pretty graphs.

 

Staff Contact

First off, we know that it's really hard to track issues that we are working to solve, so we're hoping that by using Trello we can better track all the things we need to do for these servers and provide you guys a meaningful way to track our progress. Your best method for raising issues is still via /modreq or via email to admins@nerd.nu. For sensitive issues there is a private Trello board that your request may end up on, so don't fret if you can't see it!

 

Server Infrastructure

Currently at nerd we run and maintain 2 physical servers, housing 6 separate Minecraft servers with a combined total of 30 worlds. Quite recently we have started dipping our toes into the world of CS:GO server management at the request of our Head Admin team who are coordinating with other admin teams to get that built.

Below are the memory usages for our primary server, which houses C, P and S as well as development servers for various admin teams. Memory is the biggest constraining factor with the creation and running of more servers. Our primary server has 32G of ram.

Memory usage graph

Our second server is currently running our CS:GO server as well as being earmarked for development and eventual release of a 4th server type which we can't quite release details about yet.

 

Server usage

Below are the total players online for nerd.nu, beginning around the end of September through until now.

Total nerd.nu players

You can see which servers are contributing to that total below, this however doesn't include events such as the last CTF which contributed greatly to the peak server total.

Per-server players

 

Minecraft Changes

Quite recently there has been a huge overhaul of the /list command, as well as the public release of PEcon and EquineEgg, both of which are currently in use on the latest survival revision. Around the place there has been ongoing bug squashing for NerdLobby and development efforts put into ModReq, CutePvP, NerdSpawn and EasySigns. When not developing plugins we have been keeping busy with the operational support of the current C, P and S revisions.

Still under way is the development of our shiny new website, as well as the removal of about 84,000 bans from our records, with the list now being checked over and removal imminent.

 

As usual, please leave any questions or comments you have below (at the suggestions at the top of this forum post). We are a team of 5 techs with timezones almost spanning the globe, so one of us should be around to answer any questions you have :)

Thanks for reading