I really can't be bothered to dig through the forums here when it's just a spamfest of every kid with a server. I would like to use a server that's actually been around long enough to be reviewed by many and compared to other services by a reputable source. So far my best option seems to be BeastNode based on pricing and reviews. I've taken a look at GGServers and their support seems pretty bad already. I'm not even going to bother with MCProHosting since their website is hardly even functional. I really like the freedom that AWS gives me but even on their higher end instances Minecraft likes to lag.
Hmm. I figured as much. The only reason I really went with Amazon is because I already had $100 on the account to make use of. Is there a better option by any chance that works similarly to AWS? As in, I can simply test out a server to see if it's adequate and then upgrade if I need to? I like the ease of AWS, but it's really not suitable for even a small Minecraft server. I'm looking to spend around $15 a month or less if possible since less than 10 people max will be on the server.
So I had $100 left over on my Amazon AWS account and I decided to use it to host a Minecraft server since it's something I've been wanting to do for a while. I don't plan on having more than 10 people on at once and currently there has only been about 4-5 people on at one time. CPU utilization is low and I have allocated 2-3GB of RAM for the server. I try to reboot it once a day when nobody is on because after a while RAM usage gets up to around 80-90% even with nobody on. I originally started with a t2.small instance, but it was really lag for both me and my friend. I have since switched to a t2.medium instance and it has been performing relatively well. I don't seem to hear many complaints about lag from the people on the server. I on the other hand have been having pretty bad block lag just about every time I'm on. Sometimes just opening a chest or a furnace takes around 15-20 seconds. Coming back from the nether always lags as well, taking a long time to reload the chunks whether I'm coming from or going to. I'm wondering if this is just a problem with my internet connection or if it's something I can fix on the server. I pinged my server from my laptop and it only showed 60-80ms of ping which shouldn't result in this much block lag. Has anybody else had a problem like this before or had experience with hosting a Minecraft server on the EC2 platform? If so, I would like to get some input on this issue.
Edit: The lag has only gotten worse and this morning it was so bad that some chunks weren't even loading. I tried walking into the invisible chunks and ending up falling completely through and basically flew all the way down into a mineshaft that was visible from the side of a loaded chunk. I ran a debug file from the server during this time, but I'm not really sure how to read the Minecraft debug files or what I would do to fix this problem. Here is the output of the file.
---- Minecraft Profiler Results ----
// Maybe if you treated it better then it'll have more motivation to work faster! Poor server.
Time span: 259968 ms
Tick span: 5200 ticks
// This is approximately 20.00 ticks per second. It should be 20 ticks per second
I would ditch AVG. I had that same problem 2 years ago, so it's clear that AVG hasn't improved when it comes to false alarms. It also happened to me with a Hello World program. I was only trying out AVG to see how well it worked and I got rid of it that same day because it just wasn't as good as Malwarebytes.
Actually with coupons you can get them to come close to Sager's pricing, but it takes some waiting and shopping around, so if you like fancy LEDs for about $200 thats your call, but with coupons it can be a close shave price wise
(i would still go Sager cause i don't need a portable rave)
You can still get customizable LED's on Sagers as well, so even that isn't something you have to go with Alienware to get.
If the software is that big of a deal for you, I would just install Cyanogenmod. The auto-installer app actually works surprisingly well and once it's installed you have access to tons of themes and features.
Why exactly would he need more than 250gb for an ssd...The OP could easily load most programs onto a 250gb solid state drive...
That's actually not that much space nowadays. If you've got large software suites or want to store any games on your SSD, that's just not feasible on a 128GB drive. All of my current SSD's are 128GB, but I would eventually like to get at least a 240GB.
I learned the same thing, except instead of the fish method it was called cross multiplication. You just make an x "across" the fractions and multiply it out.
Windows 9 is actually going to get the start menu back. I think it's pretty stupid to bring it back. Using the search function and start screen is much faster than scrolling through a menu.
If you're really still stuck in the habit of using the start button menu for everything, you're living in the past. It's much faster to just use the search bar and taskbar in Windows.
Don't wanna be "that guy", but you really could of gotten a lot more out of a custom built desktop, than with a Imac. 130 FPS on Minecraft really isn't that impressive, especially with a $1500+ machine.
A custom build would not result in an all-in-one solution and would have to run Windows unless you feel like getting Hackintosh compatible hardware and installing OSX anyway. Raw performance isn't everything.
I would say the Analytical Engine was the first computer in technical terms since it was capable of taking input and automatically performing operations.
So I still don't understand what the point of making Windows 8 look like Windows 95 is. Are you just looking for ways to make the computer less useful?
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Edit: The lag has only gotten worse and this morning it was so bad that some chunks weren't even loading. I tried walking into the invisible chunks and ending up falling completely through and basically flew all the way down into a mineshaft that was visible from the side of a loaded chunk. I ran a debug file from the server during this time, but I'm not really sure how to read the Minecraft debug files or what I would do to fix this problem. Here is the output of the file.
---- Minecraft Profiler Results ----
// Maybe if you treated it better then it'll have more motivation to work faster! Poor server.
Time span: 259968 ms
Tick span: 5200 ticks
// This is approximately 20.00 ticks per second. It should be 20 ticks per second
--- BEGIN PROFILE DUMP ---
[00] levels - 99.60%/99.60%
[01] world - 99.96%/99.57%
[02] tick - 98.99%/98.56%
[03] entities - 91.71%/90.39%
[04] regular - 99.65%/90.07%
[05] tick - 95.77%/86.26%
[06] travel - 36.71%/31.67%
[07] move - 77.52%/24.55%
[07] unspecified - 12.00%/3.80%
[07] rest - 10.47%/3.32%
[06] ai - 21.28%/18.36%
[07] newAi - 94.17%/17.29%
[08] unspecified - 32.44%/5.61%
[08] goalSelector - 22.06%/3.81%
[09] unspecified - 48.75%/1.86%
[09] goalSetup - 44.35%/1.69%
[10] unspecified - 99.87%/1.69%
[10] pathfind - 0.13%/0.00%
[09] goalTick - 6.90%/0.26%
[08] controls - 19.75%/3.41%
[09] unspecified - 71.24%/2.43%
[09] look - 12.07%/0.41%
[09] move - 10.20%/0.35%
[09] jump - 6.49%/0.22%
[08] targetSelector - 15.64%/2.70%
[09] unspecified - 72.79%/1.97%
[09] goalSetup - 18.37%/0.50%
[09] goalTick - 8.85%/0.24%
[08] checkDespawn - 3.92%/0.68%
[08] navigation - 2.45%/0.42%
[08] mob tick - 1.96%/0.34%
[08] sensing - 1.77%/0.31%
[07] unspecified - 5.83%/1.07%
[06] unspecified - 15.37%/13.26%
[06] push - 15.30%/13.20%
[06] entityBaseTick - 2.70%/2.33%
[07] unspecified - 88.36%/3.03%
[07] portal - 11.64%/0.40%
[06] livingEntityBaseTick - 2.70%/2.33%
[06] move - 2.15%/1.86%
[06] headTurn - 0.57%/0.49%
[06] chunkCheck - 0.44%/0.38%
[06] mobBaseTick - 0.41%/0.35%
[06] looting - 0.28%/0.25%
[06] rangeChecks - 0.27%/0.23%
[06] rest - 0.27%/0.23%
[06] jump - 0.26%/0.23%
[06] portal - 0.00%/0.00%
[05] unspecified - 3.64%/3.28%
[05] remove - 0.59%/0.53%
[04] blockEntities - 0.24%/0.22%
[04] remove - 0.08%/0.07%
[04] unspecified - 0.03%/0.03%
[04] pendingBlockEntities - 0.00%/0.00%
[04] global - 0.00%/0.00%
[03] tickBlocks - 7.34%/7.23%
[04] unspecified - 49.98%/3.61%
[04] tickBlocks - 25.96%/1.88%
[04] getChunk - 5.48%/0.40%
[04] tickChunk - 4.79%/0.35%
[04] iceandsnow - 4.05%/0.29%
[04] checkLight - 2.93%/0.21%
[04] thunder - 2.70%/0.20%
[04] moodSound - 2.66%/0.19%
[04] playerCheckLight - 0.96%/0.07%
[05] unspecified - 62.34%/0.04%
[05] getBrightness - 34.00%/0.02%
[05] checkedPosition < toCheckCount - 3.66%/0.00%
[04] buildList - 0.50%/0.04%
[03] mobSpawner - 0.61%/0.60%
[03] chunkSource - 0.16%/0.16%
[03] unspecified - 0.11%/0.11%
[03] tickPending - 0.04%/0.04%
[04] unspecified - 76.29%/0.03%
[04] ticking - 14.91%/0.01%
[04] cleaning - 8.80%/0.00%
[03] chunkMap - 0.01%/0.01%
[03] village - 0.01%/0.01%
[03] portalForcer - 0.01%/0.01%
[02] tracker - 0.98%/0.98%
[02] unspecified - 0.03%/0.03%
[02] timeSync - 0.00%/0.00%
[01] unspecified - 0.04%/0.04%
[00] save - 0.17%/0.17%
[00] connection - 0.08%/0.08%
[01] unspecified - 95.95%/0.08%
[01] keepAlive - 4.05%/0.00%
[00] jobs - 0.07%/0.07%
[01] unspecified - 90.17%/0.06%
[01] travel - 4.23%/0.00%
[02] move - 39.28%/0.00%
[02] unspecified - 34.96%/0.00%
[02] rest - 25.76%/0.00%
[01] entityBaseTick - 2.07%/0.00%
[02] unspecified - 92.51%/0.00%
[02] portal - 7.49%/0.00%
[01] livingEntityBaseTick - 1.17%/0.00%
[01] ai - 0.72%/0.00%
[02] unspecified - 67.03%/0.00%
[02] newAi - 32.97%/0.00%
[01] rest - 0.55%/0.00%
[01] move - 0.52%/0.00%
[01] push - 0.30%/0.00%
[01] headTurn - 0.17%/0.00%
[01] rangeChecks - 0.06%/0.00%
[01] jumps - 0.05%/0.00%
[00] unspecified - 0.06%/0.06%
[00] tallying - 0.00%/0.00%
[00] players - 0.00%/0.00%
[00] tickables - 0.00%/0.00%
[00] snooper - 0.00%/0.00%
--- END PROFILE DUMP ---
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You can still get customizable LED's on Sagers as well, so even that isn't something you have to go with Alienware to get.
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That's actually not that much space nowadays. If you've got large software suites or want to store any games on your SSD, that's just not feasible on a 128GB drive. All of my current SSD's are 128GB, but I would eventually like to get at least a 240GB.
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A custom build would not result in an all-in-one solution and would have to run Windows unless you feel like getting Hackintosh compatible hardware and installing OSX anyway. Raw performance isn't everything.
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