Okay scratch that, It's up now. Anyway, there's not much security other than a whitelist. On it atm, I have:

Thalonkoju
Zarar
evilscaught
Zapadory
Syckosnow
Desfang
MXplosive1
AxeMen60
Awesomness47
bluearctica

Please tell me if I missed anyone, or if I misspelled a name.
It may be a while before I get a backup plugin and a password plugin, seeing as there are like, none that are updated. And since I don't want to create the new world until then, and since I don't have the old world anymore, we're kind of stuck in a limbo so to speak. Nothing we do in the current world will be saved, because we'll be going to a new world shortly.

Making progress

So I found a new HDD for my laptop, installed and configured the Ubuntu server, and now I'm working on setting Vittescape up. The server is not good to go yet, so if you try to join, it won't let you. It will tell you that you're not on the white-list. I'm going to try using a white-list, and see how that goes. I think it should work just fine. I don't expect the server to be up today or tomorrow, but we'll see.

Well My HDD seems to have broken. o.O. it makes a weird sound when it runs, and I suspect that the disc is a bit loose or something. So, until I can get that resolved, Vittescape will probably be down. :( Sorry, there's not much I can do in the meantime.

The next step

It would seem as though everybody has agreed with my proposal. So, sometime in the near future, I intend to zip up the current world into an archive, and start a new world from scratch. However, I don't know what this new world will be. In order to move forward with this plan, we need something which we clearly lack: Organization. It's not difficult to achieve, it's just a bit annoying when not everyone can skype. So, as a replacement, I request that everybody who regularly joins be online as much as possible for the rest of the week. Hopefully, we'll be able to all be on at once, so we can discuss the future of Vittescape. I'm not going to do anything until we can all come to a unanimous decision as to how the new city will shape up. So, if you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to post in the chat. Just, please be sure that your sentences are formed correctly, and that your thoughts are clear. I don't want a bunch of spam. Coherent ideas are always welcomed, and are in fact, needed if we are going to do this right. Thank you all for the support, and I hope to hear from each and every one of you. I'd like to get at least some basic parameters laid out before school starts in about a week.

A Simple Proposal

     My comrades, an epiphany has dawned on me. Arkshire is empty. Heliopolis has too much extra space. Everybody wants to start a new town. What are the reasons for this? I asked Awesomness47 of his motives, and he stated that he wants people to visit him. People like Awes are poor, and struggle to make money, not because the established monetary system is obsolete, or broken; but because he has no business. There is no business not because there is no demand, but because he is unreachable. As it stands, Vittescape is divided. The population is spread thin, across miles of terrain. This situation is the cause for things like half empty cities, and low populations. We think that building bigger and better monuments in our cities will affect the influx of citizens, and in turn, the quality of the city; but that method is a means to an end. Making a city bigger only exacerbates the problem! What we need is unification. What we need is ONE city. What we need is a new beginning. I believe that to end the struggles in Vittescape, we need to start over. We shouldn't need to worry about having to bribe a new player to go to one city or another. Frankly, such behaviour creates a stressful situation for the player, creating subconscious tension, potentially hindering his/her bond to Vittescape. We need to unify the world, under one name. We must destroy the establishments of old Vittescape, and start fresh, with a new city. It is my belief that if we work together, in unity, we'll be more organized, we'll accomplish more, and we'll be more welcoming to new players.
     However, something like this does not happen over night. These are the workings of a revolution (peaceful, though it may be). I am proposing something drastic - The systematic collapse of all current cities in Vittescape in exchange for the establishment of a newer, bolder city. One that was made by the collective efforts of all who inhabit Vittescape. Initially, many may find themselves opposed to this plan. Many may find themselves wondering "what might become of my creations? and of my dedication to my old city?". I know it is not easy to give up something that you have worked so long and hard on. But know that if we all work together, our combined efforts put towards a new community will far surpass any limits that you may have previously reached. If we are closer to each-other, it will be less troublesome to share resources.
     I don't have any doubts that the road ahead will be long, tedious, and tiresome, but please rest assured that my plan's purpose is to have Vittescape come out better and brighter than ever before. For my dream to become a reality though, I must ask quite a lot from you. If this is going to happen, I need your full commitment. You must be willing to abandon, and in most cases destroy all of your previously built structures. If we work together, this task should be less daunting, and smoother than you may think. You must be fully dedicated to the well being of the new establishment. Any slacking will cost us time, resources, and a loss of trust. Finally, and most importantly, you must simply agree. None of this will ever be possible if I don't have the support of each and every last one of you. In order for this to work, I am asking for 100% of the Vittescape population to be on board. If there's but a single objection, we can not continue.
     If you are seriously considering this proposal, please reply by posting a comment with your thoughts. I require everybody who joins regularly to state their name and opinion on this issue. In my heart and mind, I know that this is the only method of future progress. United we stand, divided we fall. Remember: This is not the end; it is but only the beginning.

-Thal

Server gonna be down for a bit, installing new ram.

URGENT ALERT (more or less)

Honestly, I am terribly sorry for the inconvenience, but the server won't be down all day on Saturday the 11th - it'll be down all day today. I've decided to bump the date forward a bit. I can't stand the server being so . . . disconfigured.

Sever down on Sat.

LONG VERSION:
Last night I spent five hours updating the server to 1.3.1. Just when I thought I was done, the server started acting very strange and buggy. This is because 1.3.1 is very new, and many of the plugins of Vittescape haven't been released as a recommended build yet - they're still development builds.
As such, Vittescape is going to be very broken, laggy, and broken for probably the rest of today, and possibly tomorrow and the day after. On Saturday I plan to shut Vittescape down for the entire day so I can start over on a clean slate. The world and all your inventory items should all still be there, but everything else - permissions, commands, passwords - pretty much everything will be reset and started over from scratch. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but as it is the server files are a bit of a disorganized mess that need rectification.

SHORT VERSION:
Vitte will be down all day Saturday, 11 August 2012.

    Good news everyone! I've just placed an ebay order for two 1GB memory modules for my laptop! At the moment the server is running off of two 512MB modules for a total of 1GB. With this new memory there will be two gigabytes. This is good for the players because it means 2x server speed, 2x server calculations, and 0.5x lag! I'm hoping it'll make a big difference, because right now the server is utilizing 90% of the current memory - with two gigabytes it should have a little more room to breathe.

After an immense amount of prodding, I have decided to test out the essentials plugin. There are in fact, quite a few aspects of it that seem particularly useful. Because of this, the server will be down for a while. I don't know how long this will be, but I'm expecting it to take about an hour or two.