So no one is talking about the Elephant in the room?

No, it wasn't the usual pre-update server downtime to prep for the next update. There was an outage at the datacenter where all of JIW's servers are hosted.

The server hosting had a power cut that took down all RW servers

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Hmmm so when Red is down we are all down? I am a bit confused because I do not host thru "the" data center so? OR is it because we are a hive mentality and resistance is futility ?

If your server does not use the hive server to authenticate players then the outage would not affect your server but most of us do rely on the hive. Assuming a player has added your server to their favorites list, they would still be able to see it while the Hive is down. Actually it would be nice to someday have a 2nd or 3rd hive server to have a little redundancy when this sort of thing happens. From what I understand, everything that is JIW (the hive server and the website and whatever else is part of their company) is located in one data center so its a single point of failure.

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If your server does not use the hive server to authenticate players then the outage would not affect your server but most of us do rely on the hive. Assuming a player has added your server to their favorites list, they would still be able to see it while the Hive is down. Actually it would be nice to someday have a 2nd or 3rd hive server to have a little redundancy when this sort of thing happens. From what I understand, everything that is JIW (the hive server and the website and whatever else is part of their company) is located in one data center so its a single point of failure.

i couldn't say it any better ^^^^

to disable the hive verification so users can connect when the hive is down, set the (server_hive_verification=true) to (server_hive_verification=false) in your server.properties file then restart your sever,

note: once the hive is back up its best to set this setting back to true, this can help hackers stay off your server