Goodbye

Sadly, the 2WinMills project has come to an end. Thank you for great couple of years, this has really grown into a tight-knit community of chill people.

There are many reasons as to why I have decided to sunset the server, but the biggest one is that I simply don't have a lot of time on my hands as of late and it takes a lot of it to manage a Rust server solo (all the founding members except me have left more than a year ago). Given how little time I have, I couldn't focus on managing the server properly - thus, the quality slipped significantly. Frequent outages, wipes happening too late, map votes not being prepared in time (the list goes on).

As for the cost, while I have relocated 2WinMills to a machine I mostly use for other things - it still saps a non-insignificant amount of resources I'd prefer to use on something else. 2WinMills was assigned a VM with 24 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM. This is easily 50% of what I have available on this box.

All of this comes with a cost, which I cannot bear alone anymore.

If you're interested in reviving the server - let me know. I have backed up all the server identity files, all the configs and maps. I will make them available to anyone with the skills, resources and time necessary to run a successful Rust server.

It's been fun. Farewell.

— bagno