coolio, my server was still up but the only people who can were random people who found the link on google, and your severs usually get the better turn out user-wise anyways.

My modem just had a heart attack and reset (among other things) the dynamic DNS settings, so I've updated the IP on the original post accordingly.

Thank you I was just about to ask you about that.

Ok its still not working

Try now.

END OF STREAM

that's all i get

Okay, I have no idea what causes an 'end of stream' error. Anybody have a clue why I'm getting this?

Make sure you router didn't auto close the ports and re-set up the firewalls after it crashed, mine will do that sometimes.

OH WAIT ONE SOLUTION I JUST THOUGHT UP
IN THE SERVER PROPERTIES MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR LOCAL IP IN THE IP ADDRESS SPOT NOT YOUR OUTGOING IP

I already reenabled that stuff, and when I did it changed from a timeout to end of stream. Edit: Ninja'd, I'll try the properties thing.

Turns out I didn't have the latest version of the server (I'd downloaded it onto my PC but not the laptop) *headdesk* Should work now.

Server's down for the night, I'll turn it on again some time tomorrow.

god damn timezones

if you don't leave it on at night not a lot of people are going to be able to visit

Don't worry bro my server is still up, and my kickass cannon house now comes with instructions

@mariodude: Unless you can convince my parents to allow me to leave it on overnight there's not much I can do.

Server's back up!

There is now an auto-updating status image in the original post, which will update every 10 minutes. (Edit: It seems to be working occasionally but not always, but I'm not sure why)

I've been looking around the MC forums and have found a number of server hosts, but none that I can currently afford. So here's a hypothetical question for you guys: would you be willing to each contribute a small amount to pay for 24/7 hosting? (Not that I have any immediate plans to do something like this, I just wanted to see what kind of reaction it would get)

define, small ammount

Some of the servers start at around $10/month (plus setup fees), but the prices increase with more memory and power. (And before anybody says it: I could in theory pay for it myself, but this would leave me quite short of money - this might be different if I got myself a saturday job)

Minecraft.net's back online, so you should be able to get in now

Going down for the night again, hopefully there'll be more activity tomorrow.

I'm sure plenty of people here would host your server for free.

but it would be no where near as good as a paid server
most computer hosted servers would probably be laggy as shit to the point where it wouldn't be enjoyable to play the game

Unless we connected our computers in a sort of network and divide up the server's processing needs between all of the computers on the network.

Server's up again.
@Super-Dimento (Missing an I in dimentio there?): That may be possible using cloud computing, but it would almost cerainly require some form of specialised software to set up. I'll look into it though, see if I can find some answers.

@ gold were you not here when i joined in 08' and clearly stated that I knew that I was missing an "i" in the username and I explained that "Super-Dimentio" was already taken by an inactive user so I just got rid of the "i"

I may have been around at the time, I'm just amazed that I hadn't noticed it before now.

Oh god I swear that said dimentio this entire time
*crag*

Server's up. Also, here's a map of the server for you (careful, it's big).

Is that a courthouse in the middle? I miss the old courthouse.

I remember when we had that big court case thing were the lava flooded the whole server.

@Linkshot: I believe you're referring to my house.
Server's up by the way.

"Failed to connect
Connection timed out"

Getting the same thing.

Yeah, I turned it off and forgot to update the status in the post. It's back up now.

And down again.