So just a little update on the server so far; A few teething issues with the set up and getting people whitelisted but it all seems to be going well now. So far only Plumber Dave, Spacedeck and I have joined but the server can take more if anyone else wants to join up just let me know.
I still can’t get the automated restart working – when it is supposed to restart, it says it is restarting but it shuts down and doesn’t restart. So for now I’m just manually restarting the server from my phone which isn’t a big dig deal.
We’ve hit a couple laggy times which clearly I wasn’t to blame…….honest *whistles innocently* Though I found out what the cause was – Refined storage autocrafting. It works ok if you’re only crafting a few hundred items but trying to do high tier solar panels which is 100,000+ does cause some…well a lot of lag. So auto crafting is possible just be aware of how many items you’re crafting.
On a side note of lag, there is 2 types of lag – server lag and client lag. You’ll get client lag from a number of things and is most noticeable by your FPS dropping or the game becoming choppy. If this is client side (i.e. just your PC) then it isn’t anything too worrying. It only becomes a problem if the lag is server side. To check this, you can type the command
/cofh tps
This will give you the TPS (ticks per second) of all the dimensions on the server. It gives a lot of information but basically what you’re looking for is that it says 20 tps (100%). Anything less and it means the server is lagging. If it’s over 90% then it isn’t perfect but it is playable but with the auto crafting I was doing, I had it down to 10-15% which definitely isn’t good – oops.