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Life as an admin... Pt 1

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Vitriol13's Avatar Vitriol13
Level 29 : Expert Architect
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First off, I apologize now for any spelling or grammatical errors. I actually type the way i talk, so there will be run on sentences and dropped thoughts.... 

Hi,
    I'm Vit and i would like to talk a bit about Life as a server administrator, I may update this blog frequently and keep yall posted on whats up with me and with my servers. I am hoping to chronicle the day to day of running a server, the good the bad, the tough and the easy.
     In my opinion this is the next step in MC gaming, the next level if you will. I started out single player way back when, around 2010 (i thought i had started a bit before beta) But anyway, my brother created a little lan server for my dad, cousin him and I to play on, we had fun, we built we killed mobs, ya know... the whole MC thing... Then we started looking for servers on-line to play on, we joined a few, played for months and grew bored... so we went back to our single player and our lan servers. Then I found a server that got us all back online, lets call it SBdk some might know it... It was a neat little server where we made names for ourselves, after seeing though how different it was run compared to other servers, (one staff member and a couple hundred members) It had a 75% uptime and no anticheat... the economy was terrible and the staff member was more interested in abusing her commands.
We moved on again.
   We found Haze, a great server run by a active staff and community, I thought this is what a server should be, A community. Well again I made a name for myself and eventually became staff. a chat officer, and my days were filled with endless tours and keeping the fights down. Then came a situation where the server had to be reset... It was experiencing many problems and had to have a new map. The staff were all moving towns over and the officers were all keeping the forum community entertained. I thought I could be more help with the endless copying and saving of the towns, the Upper staff felt differently and one of them went as far as to say that i would never rise above officer. (he is now blacklisted on that server) Well the first reset came and went people grew their towns again and the server started to experience more downtime than uptime. SO some of the upper staff decided to start a server where the players could spend time while Haze was down... at that point i had retired from officer, refusing to be stuck in a position where i would essentialy be the bad guy. and was playing as a regular member. I happened to be in a skype call with Go4itt and CattyClaws while they were discussing the new server so they offered me the IP and I offered my help with anything they needed. 
  Thus Zeno-Craft was born... 

I will write some more later and tell the beginings of Zeno.

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