The rise and fall (and rise) of C0mplexSMP

Introduction
C0mplexSMP has had a few ups and downs over time, from a promising server that everyone was really excited to play on, to having a strong 1-2 weeks of C0mplexity crying because his internet was dead, to a promising server that everyone is really excited to play on. This article will go through the story of how the C0mplexSMP has survived over time and the multiple times that it almost died completely.

The birth
C0mplexSMP used to be known as C0mplex Hub, and used to be hosted by C0mplexity on his computer. The idea came around when he wanted to try making a Minecraft server again for his friends, after the first attempt wasn't very promising since the server ran on 1.8.8 (a minecraft version from 2015) and had no means of supporting Bedrock Edition, which meant that only him and PoisonTedster could join it and it wasn't interesting since nothing happened. When making this server C0mplexity worked on a number of things such as helping performance and making sure that Bedrock Edition players could join it. This also caused many issues since Bedrock Edition support has never been perfect and C0mplexity also didn't have the best experience with making Minecraft servers that could do such a thing. Even with these issues the server was open for everyone in 2 days and people quickly started building things, primarily on the lobby map, which was the first world on the server.

The first downfall
Over the next few weeks many things started popping up such as a Tudor house built by SlothLord, PoisonTedster and C0mplexity, the "Sloth Cave" made by SlothLord, the farm by C0mplexity and the new "Plone" world made by PoisonTedster including models and descriptions of a wide collection of real world planes. After a few weeks, however, C0mplexity started to notice that his internet was not coping well. At all. His ping range when connecting to other Minecraft servers such as Hypixel went from an average of 110-170 (which felt completely normal for him) to 150-2500, and one time peaking at 35,000 when connected to Bridger.Land. Obviously this was not playable and C0mplexity had to do something about it, particularly since the internet connection was just as bad when out of Minecraft as in it. After a while of maintaining the server C0mplexity announced to everyone that he had to shut it down since his internet just wasn't normal, no matter if the server was on or off, and he couldn't keep going with the server. He disconnected the server from the internet and for the next month the server was just a folder sitting on his pc.

Rebirth
After only a few days of shutting down C0mplex Hub, C0mplexity noticed a significant improvement with his internet when loading webpages or connecting to servers again, and everything felt fine again. But, a few months later C0mplexity decided that he wanted to bring back the server with higher standards than last time, he knew that he could not run the server on his internet and decided to use Minehut to host it instead. This would mean better connection to the server, more uptime and also would offer the ability for anyone who wanted to join it to start up the server themselves instead of asking for the server to be started. Plus bedrock compatibility would still be a thing on the new server and everyone could still join. So he uploaded the important worlds to a new server, including the original lobby world and he told everyone about the new server. C0mplexSMP was here, and PoisonTedster even came along with new plans to make a city, which we named the cringe name "C0mplexcity", and then the story continues from there, yay!