Hello everyone, this is just an update from a few days ago.

Here's the full story, as written by the Steve, our server host.

Steve Wrote:Hey All,

Kaaos-gaming has been through alot over the last few months. We officially started in January of 2013, and after about 2 months of Beta, We had a catastrophic hardware failure. So deciding I did not have enough funds to continue the project, i was forced to close the company. The next day i had an investor i contacted a few weeks back, just randomly call me. So we started back up a few days later coming back with the second beta. After getting the ball rolling and things were starting to look good, we had 3 hackers come in and sabotage the servers due to an insecure password of a staff member. We pulled together and got servers back up within 12 hours. Well again we were struck 2 weeks later with this hard drive failure, and backup corruption. I had decided that the odds were adding up and I felt defeated. Failure was imminent, and it didn't seem as if we could recover from this. And I through in the towel. I called it quits, I took down the billing page, forums, and main site. I felt as if everything had been lost.

A few hours after that I get an email from a new company starting up, some of you may know, CraftSRV (http://craftsrv.com). The Email was from the head developer telling me that I was one of very few, that was selected to be a beta tester for their new panel. So i sat back for a minute and started thinking. Everytime Kaaos-Gaming had a problem that seemed like the end of the road, there was a sign that i need to keep going. Thats what i plan on doing I am going to learn from the mistakes i have made and keep on going. Thats what the beta is about, working out the kinks/problems.

I have had a meeting with my staff yesterday, and they are backing this 100% and I would like you to continue with us. I need your help to make this happen. I need to raise $200 to get everything back up and running. If i can raise this i can get everything back on track. I have put more than $3000 total into this project so far, and I am all tapped out on resources. So it is up the community to see if we can raise this little bit to get Kaaos-Gaming back on track. All contributors That donate $20 or more, will receive a permanent 20% discount on all future orders. I am not going to stop until Kaaos-Gaming is the #1 hosting company out there. I can't do this without your help. I am going to post a link on the main page (http://kaaos-gaming.com) for the donations. Thank you all so much for your commitments to us and I will not let you down!

If you have any questions you can email me @ steve@kaaos-gaming.com

Also, I am currently working on trying to recover the servers from the damaged HDD. I have received quite a few emails regarding their server files. I am doing the best i can to get the old data restored. I will send out a mass email as soon as i have everything up so you can FTP in and download your files.

Thank you all again for being apart of Kaaos-Gaming.com
Steve

Hopefully, this will be the end of all of the problems that we've encountered so far with hardware issues.

Enjoy the servers!

Also, if you add me on skype, you can be in contact with me, even if I'm not on the forums @tyz0id (make sure you put a custom contact request message, I will ignore you if I don't recognize you).

Hi everyone, sorry for the recent downtime. Our server host is having issues with hardware and decided to shut down due to those issues. We plan on moving the servers by tomorrow, but this may not happen a soon as we hope.

Hopefully, once the servers are migrated, the intermittent issues and poor uptime will be fixed.

Please note that the hardcore survival and creative servers are still up.

Hello everyone, and thank you for your patience in this matter.

Our goal since we became a network is to incorporate many game modes into one network. This gives players the opportunity to play whatever they want, without having to search for a new community. Donations are closer to completion then ever, where donor ranks automatically propagate between servers.

With the recent addition of another server, previously craftertown, we can reach farther towards that goal. For players of craftertown, not much will change, except your donations will now count to more servers. For current Metropolis players, you will notice a change. The survival server has been reset, and is now a hardcore survival server. This is subject to change, however.

Donations are now accepted at http://store.tyzoid.com/

Don't worry if you are not promoted right away on the other servers. You may have to wait for the cache to update.

There are four servers:

• Metropolis Survival (survival.tyzoid.com)
• Metropolis Hardcore (server.tyzoid.com)
• Metropolis Creative (creative.tyzoid.com)
• Metropolis Tekkit (tekkit.tyzoid.com:25594)
  

Hello everyone, in the spirit of Easter I have hidden an Easter egg on the survival server. It is not a literal Easter egg, but it is a chest containing diamonds and gold. The first person to find this will be awarded one month of iron donor status.

Happy hunting!

In related news, we are going to start a tekkit server soon. Donors will have access to several commonly banned tekkit items, one being the red matter furnace.

Stay tuned for more details and donate at http://store.tyzoid.com/

Hello everyone, there have been many additions recently to the servers.

You may have noticed that logo now reads "The Metropolis Network." Yes, that's right, we are a network now, with the addition of a second server. To mark this occasion, and to get rid of the clutter, the survival server map will be reset.

creative.tyzoid.com (for creative mode server)
server.tyzoid.com (for the original survival server)

Shoutout to M3herethere, creative.tyzoid.com is hosted in Australia. You should have no lag. For the rest of us, no significant lag should be present.

We also have a new blog. This blog is integrated into the forums, so all of my admins can post there. To do this, an admin would create a new thread in Server Announcements, and it automatically appears in the blog.

Also, this has been tossed around for a while now, but donations. I am in the process of creating donation ranks.
Here are the ranks so far:

Stone: $0 - $4.99

• Donor tag
  

Iron: $5 - $19.99

• Stone donor plus
• Flight on the survival server
• Rainbow in chat
• Rainbow name
  

Gold: $20+

• Iron donor plus
• Your own town
• Worldedit in survival and creative
• Custom prefixes
  

Diamond: $8+/month (rank given while still active. If inactive, you will receive the donor plan that matches how much you have contributed.)

• Gold donor plus
• Your own world on the creative server (you can invite players or kick players out)
  

Not all of this is coded yet, and I am hoping to set up an automated system to handle these donations, but if you donate in advance, I'll put you in Gold even if you donate on the Iron level.

Thanks you all for your support so far, and I hope you have fun!

Reply with any suggestions/comments.

Hi everyone, the login glitches have been fixed. You should be able to log into the forums properly.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Hello everyone. The server in my basement has been turned off. I have a host on the internet, and it is in creative mode. The map has been reset, but we were going to reset anyway. Have fun in creative mode, and a new survival server will be released within the next month.

Hey all,
I am in the process of fixing up the server and the website after months of negligence by myself. I have realized as of late that I cannot run this server by myself, and I need a trustworthy co-owner.

As of today, I will be adding a few new staff positions:
Chief of in-game operations (head admin): micromelo
Co-chief of in-game operations (vice head admin): blitzscrank
Chief of website operations (website maintainer): m3herethere.

I will still be responsible for updating the server and making sure the website runs, but I need help administrating the server itself and working on the website.

If you are a current staff member here, and wish to apply for one of these positions, you do not need to go through an approval process apart from me accepting you.

If you are not a current staff member, you need to meet the qualifications for a staff member:

• You must have been on the server for a minimum of 6 weeks AND have at least 10 hours playing time.
• There must be spots available for new admins
• A current admin must vouch for you.
  And lastly:
• I have to not veto it.
  

Hello everyone, there will be a world reset coming up in the next week or so. For all of my admins, the new world will be "worldnew". Spawn is mostly created already, and there are a couple of new users today that were helping me build.

Hey everyone, it appears that the server is down temporarily. I'm out of town for a little bit and don't have access to it right now. I'll be back tomorrow night, so I will get to it then.