Changelog/2021/June 17

We will be taking down the Hypixel Network for emergency maintenance. This maintenance begins now and will last for at least 24 hours. Should we choose to extend this downtime, we will post an update on this news post.

During this time we will be reworking the network to ensure the issues we have been having these last few days don't happen again.

We would like to apologize for the inconvenience the last few days have caused and we hope that our community understands the difficulty of the situation.

The situation is: Our host is currently under large-scale DDOS attacks and they are actively working to resolve the situation. We are assisting them to the best we can, which is why we have to put the server on maintenance during this process.

We have already done many network improvements that have lessened the impact of the attacks that are either directed at us or not, but it has proven not to be enough. Our top priority is to mitigate the impact of these attacks as quickly as possible while working ion permanent solutions that will shield us better from future attacks and isolate our network.

The good news is that we have dealt with DDoS attacks for well over 8 years now and we have a great understanding of the situation. Each of these attacks is helping us better understand weak points that need to be improved from our side of things and also for our host. As much as this situation is bad for everyone at this time, it is giving us very good data to further understand and lessen the impacts of future attacks.

In reality, about a year ago, these attacks would have had no impact at all, but some recent changes at our host caused a flaw in our setup. so the host is working with us to resolve the situation. We all know what to do to resolve the situation because we have done it before, but it requires quite a bit of work to get to that place again. We’re hoping 24 hours is enough for this upgrade, but please understand it may take more than that.

To be fair, we haven't been as alert or ready as we should have been as it's been about 2 years since our last DDoS attacks. Thus us definitely a good opportunity for us to set some improvements in motion and deal with this once and for all.

We made sure any time-based services on the network are taken care of. This means pausing boosters, pausing the SkyBlock Auction House and Bazaar timers, pausing timers on MVP++ and daily rewards, etc. We’re hoping not to forget anything, but if we do, we are always open to a chat on our Help Desk.

Furthermore, when we bring the servers back online, we will be turning on Triple Coins and Triple XP for at least a week.

As the situation progresses, we will be posting any updates to out status page. Once we are ready to go live again, we will make an update with more details and share as much as we possibly can with our community.

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As always, we are extremely thankful for everyone's support in these difficult moments and apologies once again for the issues. We want to reassure our community that the current situation is top priority.