Minecraft Server Tweaks

Cache Proxy in front of https://mc-map.sqweeb.net

• Add another 32g disk to the proxy VM - proxy-02
• Format, make file system and mount new disk at /mnt/cache/
• Add line to /etc/fstab to mount disk on boot:

/dev/vda1 /mnt/cache ext4 defaults 0 2

• Add the following snippet to /etc/nginx/snippets/proxy-defaults.conf:

proxy_cache_path /mnt/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=my_cache:10m max_size=20g inactive=60m;

• Update /etc/nginx/sites-available/mc-map.sqweeb.net to use the cache:

server {
             ...
             proxy_cache my_cache;
             proxy_cache_valid 200 302 10m;
             add_header X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status;
             ...
}

Reduce dynmap update/render interval from every 1s to every 5s.

Restrict number of tile updates to 1 at a time.

• Edit plugins/dynmap/configuration.txt:

    # How often a tile gets rendered (in seconds).
    renderinterval: 5
    # How many update tiles to work on at once (if not defined, default is 1/2 the number of cores)
    tiles-rendered-at-once: 1

Move dynmap data to separate disk.

Move archive/ and backup/ directories to separate disk.

• Add another 60g disk to minecraft-01 VM
• Format, create file system and mount disk at /mnt/mcdata/
• Add line to /etc/fstab to mount disk on boot:

/dev/vda1 /mnt/mcdata ext4 defaults 0 2

• Copy existing archives, backups and dynmap data to new disk
• Set permissions on /mnt/mcdata/

root@minecraft-01 mnt$ chown -R mc:mc mcdata/

• Remove original archive/, backup/, and dynmap data directories
• Create symlinks to new directories on separate disk…