How to Keep a Game Server Safe From Crashes and Data Loss
Two years of building, gone in one afternoon. It happens to a group somewhere every week. Usually it starts small. A plugin updates badly. The power blinks during a save. Someone types a command they shouldn't. And the world file ends up half-written and unreadable. None of those things are rare. But almost all of them are survivable, if you set things up before they happen. Here's how.