I know I am late into this conversation but I truly believe this should and could be a learning moment for all of us.
Captain Cornball I really wish you would reconsider and start up a server again.
So you forgot the backups, that give your people a fresh slate to build on.
It also will give you more time to maybe put in more securities.
I can understand why you think it is an attack on you. This is your server, YOUR time, YOUR money, YOUR sweat that went into building this server and to have some (well insert word/words here) person destroy it kinda takes the wind out of your sails. I know it did when they hack my server, but that is also why I did not give up and I will not .
I am not going to give them the satisfaction that they took down a server.
Sharkbite mention the giant pennus on his server this happened on my server and I found it funny as well but... mine is a pg ( family server) so it had to go.
Trillnar mention he got banned from a server for doing nothing.
When people come on my server I say Hello in chat, wait a bit, maybe say Hello again, then TP to them and ask if they need help. If they do not answer I ask them again in several different languages. If they continue to ignore me I will kick them, if they come back they usually will start talking and apologize for ignore me.
The reason I do this is the quiet one are usually the ones that causes the problems.
Sharkbite also mention object protection. Hmmm not sure if I seen that one but you can be sure I will look this up and install it. I install chest protection that I like so you can leave a chest at a good mining area and gather TP home, kill yourself go back to the cave (if you setup a shelter first
) and keep mining. I keep food and such in the chest.
Yah Giggle mention the "AUTO Windows server installer". I must of misunderstood him the first time we were talking about it. I thought it was for "Home Server" I did not realize it would work with a hosting company. I will have to test it out.
In a nicer world we would not have these problems but we do, we just need to pick ourselves up and continue on.