How about: Moderately Expensive Hosting or There's Cheaper Elsewhere Hosting
Also, all servers should come with a control panel. Just because a server is vanilla doesn't mean that the server.properties cannot be edited because you can't restart the server.
Yes, actually. We're using a programming language called Skript that was made by the bukkit community specifically for bukkit. It's very easy to start learning, you can find the documentation here: http://njol.ch/projects/skript/doc/
It includes things as simple as:
on break: event-block is diamond block message "You can't break diamond blocks!" cancel event
Using an AMD Radeon HD 7950 here and I'm having the same problem, so it's probably not Nvidia's Vsync and instead, as Find Them Creepers said, a problem within Minecraft.
Alright. I've got things like the flash worked out, there will most likely be no other vehicles and certainly no air vehicles. Each base will be 128x128 and there's 25 bases, including warpgates.