Server History

This page gives an overview of the history of the server Simply Vanilla. The date format is year-day-month. This is not the timeline of in-game events. For that go to In-Game Events

## Server History

* 2019-05-29 Launch of SimplyVanilla.net minecraft server and discord server
* 2019-07-27 Team Chats were temporarily implemented
* 2019-07-28 Server Donations are now open
* 2019-08-20 Voting actually works!
* 2020-02-09 Server is taken offline after a hacker "deleted everything" and files were corrupted
* 2020-09-18 The server re-opened
* 2020-09-26 Server is Rolled back to 2019-09-17
* 2020-09-23 Beautifulz stated the server currently costed 80$ a month
* 2021-02-17 Temporary Map 1 was live
* 2021-02-18 Server moved to NA and world border increased to 400k
* 2021-04-01 Temporary Map 2 was live on hardcore mode + 1hour ban from death plugin
* 2021-05-06 Beautifulz stated the server currently costed 224$ a month
* 2021-06-23 Beautifulz started a temp map for the 1.17 update on the server (parallel to the main map). It crashed the main map and corrupted some chunks (at spawn).
* 2021-07-04 Temporary Map 3 with version 1.17.1 went online for a couple hours in preparation for main map update.
* 2021-08-15 Beautifulz updates the server to 1.17.1
* 2021-08-16 Beautifulz reverts to 1.16.5 because the server was not stable enough and rolled the map 24h back. Some new players also built a lag machine the same day and got banned for it shortly after.
* 2021-11-02 The Server comes back online after having been offline due to invoice issues with OVH
* 2021-12-10 The Server is shut down briefly to prevent player exploiting the Log4j vulnerability.
* 2021-12-11 The Server is updated from 1.16.5 to 1.17.1
* 2022-02-15 The Server is shut down for several days due to invoice issues: "OHV fucked up the invoice and is trying to charge me $2000 instead of $200. I have to call them tomorrow and get it sorted out, till then the server will be offline." (Beautifulz in Discord announcements)
* 2022-02-19 Beautifulz posted an offer to sell the server on reddit
* 2022-02-22 The Fall of Simply Vanilla - chaos and confusion among server sale
* 2022-03-01 Netherwhal bought Simply and becomes the new owner
* 2022-03-05 the server is updated to 1.18.2
* 2022-03-02 The server is back online - plugins are slowly restored over the next few days and order is re-established
* 2022-03-11 Implord and Jakersfal join the staff team as Advisor
* 2022-04-16 Legacy donators are able to claim a permanent "OG" rank
* 2022-05-22 Max flight height is now restricted to Y level 1023 in all dimensions
* 2022-10-04 Implord and Jakersfal become Admin, MagicianTim and Pan Kaktus join the staff team as Mod
* 2022-10-09 Netherwhal announces server storage has been increased to nearly 10TB, with almost 4TB used
* 2022-10-22 The Spawn radius is increased from 500 to 750 due to issues caused by the spawn watercube
* 2022-11-14 Donations return along with the new Creator role
* 2022-11-19 Llenn join the staff team as Mod
* 2022-12-13 The server is shut off due to extensive hardware damage
* 2023-01-12 Server is re-opened after repairs and being relocated to Germany temporarily
* 2023-01-17 1.19.3 Update
* 2023-01-29 The server is moved to the Netherlands, ending the Hardware Crisis