Server change & slowdown

[3dB]

Hello fellow Minecrafters,

Today I'm starting an experiment to try and save myself some money running this server. The hardware we've used for a long time is not exactly the most efficient anymore and it's no doubt cost me a chunk of change over the years. Since we've pretty much dwindled down to just a few players I'm testing retiring the old server and replacing it with a Raspberry Pi.

You will notice that some things will be a little slower on this new hardware. Most notably you will encounter a few seconds of lag when logging in and when switching dimensions such as going from the overworld to the nether. This is expected, the server should catch up after a moment.

I've made some significant tweaks to the environment to make things run as smoothly as possible and I'll probably be looking at doing some more over the next week or so. I've compiled a custom version of the JRE to make Java a little snappier which was a fun endeavour to say the least.

If you run into any significant problems please let me know.

Thanks!
--3dB