At first when starting my Minecraft server I thought it was going to be pretty cool, well I was right, but wrong at the same time. It is fun to own a Minecraft server in many ways, for example you get to meet new Minecraft players and talk to them, you get to interview for op status, you get to discover new things about vanilla minecraft that you didn't know before. You get to build the server with your friends and you get to host the server with your friends, but then comes the fun part, watching for griefers and people that claim to be nice and then op a griefer, or the people that spam chat with swear words that are spelled wrong but you still know what they mean. These are just some joys of hosting a server, but let me share my personal experiences with you.

About a week or two ago I had a visit from a new Grief Nation UK Minecraft player, he didn't do much except ban me and my co-owner, then i stopped the server right after that, the video didn't make it to youtube or anything, but that is why I'm glad to have the sever computer right next to me.

Just yesterday I oped somebody because they seemed nice and they had good admin qualities, but then their friend came on and griefed the server so bad I couldn't even log in because it couldn't process my login information because it was so overloaded. I checked what the world looked like with MCedit and there was lava everywhere, columns of different types of blocks. large areas of pressure plates and spawning squids and slimes everywhere.

What I've been doing to help bounce back from attacks like this is I make sure to use save-all command and copy the world files to another folder before I leave the server after inspecting it. I do it manually because a program would still back up griefer attacks if I'm not there to stop it.