title: The user will always complain
desc: Especially if they dont understand shit about your job
date: 2026-06-06
draft: true
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In the 3 years of me owning a homelab, the only user that actually uses it was myself. This pretty much means that if it goes down then its no big deal. After a while, I started using it for real production use like hosting websites and Discord bots as well as hosting my git repositories and migrating off from GitHub.

Still, the only person that's using it most of the time is me. If things goes down? It's no big deal because it was my stuff anyways and I can be patient as I know the process to fix things doesn't happen in an instant. But recently, **that changed**.

## The Minecraft Server

At the start of April 2026, I was just experimenting with hosting a private Minecraft server in class during break hours. My friends saw my screen and asked if they could join. I figured why not thinking it was just a temporary thing. But after a while word spread around the friend group and they also wanted to join. (keep in mind, the server was still in testing phase. barely anything was tested stable enough)

So I decided to just open it into the public and let anyone invite their friends in. All good until one of your friends suggested a mod, and rather stupidly, I agreed to add it in without testing and slowly but surely the server started to lag with more people and more mods being added without play testing. Eventually TPS dropped to as low as 4 and people complained.