I also see great potential in the control panel created to maintain the Blockland servers. I liken it to such a feature as McMyAdmin for Minecraft. Are there any plans to produce a portable version for everyday users?
I very much doubt it to be honest, there are too many parts that have too many dependencies that all have to be setup and work perfectly together. It'd be way too complicated and overkill for the average player to setup and use.
To address speed and stability questions, fundamental to this is the network the physical server is connected to. I've put a lot of time into researching providers on this to find the best and most stable whilst ensuring the service will pay for itself. I didn't want to introduce bitchy direct comparisons into this thread, but whatever, here we go.
The first picture is a 7 day monitoring history of a server in the same rack as the one I'll be renting. Pay particular attention to the 100% uptime and consistent low average ping time. Good quality networks for good quality game hosting demand uninterrupted service and a low response time, jitter free connection, this is what my provider has.
The second picture is a direct comparison showing Kalphiters network for the last 7 days. Notice the service interruptions, almost double average ping time and jitter/inconsistency in response times.
Kalphiter has always (naively) maintained that paying extra makes providers "overpriced", but this simple comparison clearly shows otherwise. I understand the true test of stability and speed won't happen until the server is live and working, but network quality and speed are definitely massive indicators. Before anyone says anything, both servers are setup for 1 minute ping checks, I don't know why one says 5 minute interval but its wrong.
