Updates from the veil.

Devlogs, infrastructure news, DDoS war stories, and everything happening behind the scenes at HyperVeil.

Announcement

We're Now HyperVeil Servers

Obsidian Servers is rebranding to HyperVeil. Same team, better infrastructure, and a name that actually means something.

April 5, 2026

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Behind the Scenes

We Built This Website Ourselves

No WordPress, no templates. Hand-written HTML and CSS served from a Node.js egg inside Pterodactyl, proxied through Nginx on our own hardware.

April 8, 2026

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Infrastructure

Hardware Refresh: What We Upgraded and Why

New AMD EPYC nodes, full NVMe storage, and 25GbE uplinks. A complete breakdown of what went into the rack this quarter.

March 2, 2026

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Security

Another Attack, Another Clean Sweep

A multi-vector attack hit us in late January — SYN flood, HTTP request flood, and UDP simultaneously. Zero downtime.

February 3, 2026

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Security

How Our New DDoS Mitigation Layer Works

A technical look at our BGP-steered scrubbing infrastructure and why it's a meaningful upgrade over null routing.

February 18, 2026

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Infrastructure

Upgrading Our Network Transit

More upstream bandwidth, better peering with UK and EU networks, and what it means for latency on your server.

January 22, 2026

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Infrastructure

Why We Migrated Everything to NVMe

Autosave lag spikes were our number one support complaint. Switching storage fixed almost all of them.

December 10, 2025

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Security

The Attack That Taught Us Everything

In November 2025 we took our biggest DDoS hit to date — ~178 Gbps. Zero downtime. A full technical breakdown.

November 14, 2025

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Infrastructure

How We Monitor Our Infrastructure 24/7

Synthetic checks, metrics collection, network anomaly detection, and the on-call rotation that ties it all together.

October 29, 2025

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Technical

What Actually Causes Minecraft Server Lag

TPS, MSPT, entity counts, hopper chains — a breakdown of where lag actually comes from and how to diagnose it.

September 15, 2025

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Infrastructure

Why We Run Everything on Pterodactyl

The open-source panel that powers our game server infrastructure — and why we chose it over the alternatives.

August 4, 2025

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Security

The First Time We Got Hit

Before we had real mitigation. What we learned from our first DDoS attack and how it shaped every decision since.

July 12, 2025

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Technical

How Much RAM Does Your Server Actually Need?

The real answer depends on player count, mods, and world size — not whatever a random forum post told you.

June 20, 2025

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Infrastructure

Backups: What We Store, Where, and Why It Matters

How our backup system works, what it protects against, and why you should keep a copy off our infrastructure too.

May 8, 2025

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Company

How This Started: The Obsidian Origin Story

From a single dedicated box to a proper hosting operation. The unglamorous origin story of what became HyperVeil.

April 1, 2025

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