MemeSCP

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MemeSCP is an online gaming community that primarily hosts public SCP: Secret Laboratory (or SCP:SL) servers. Northwood Studios granted MemeSCP the ability to host official servers[a] in the E.U West region.[1]

MemeSCP
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General Information
Established2018[2][b]
OwnerShiro (2018-Present)
Registered Members3,372[3] (as of October 3, 2023)
Joining ProcessParticipation
Social Media
DiscordDiscord
PatreonPatreon

Structure

Historical staff requirements

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Finances

The primary method of income is Patreon, encompassing 5 tiers ranging from US$1.50 to $23. The total number of patrons and received income is made public, being 9 patrons donating $82.03 per month as of October 3, 2023.[4]

History

Chronology

November 26, 2020[c]
Redolant announces a modded Minecraft server is released running the modpack "Feed the Beast Revelation".[5]
December 18
Shiro announces that SCP:SL server player slots were increased to 30.[6]
February 4, 2021
Redolant announces the servers are undergoing a DDoS attack. An announcement 48 minutes later declares a firewall was established which minimized the attack.[d][7]
February 16
Shiro announces that the SCP:SL servers, previously brought offline, are back up and marked as official[a][8].
March 10
Shiro announces that the SCP:SL servers are down due to the physical location that holds the VPS for MemeSCP catching fire.[9] The servers returned 4 days later on March 14.[10]
November 28
Shiro announces various changes being made to the SCP:SL rules, plugins, and gameplay configuration due to requirements set forth by Northwood's "Official Server Rules" (OSR). They elaborate that they are not changeable and to direct feedback to Northwood. They further declare that anyone acting "maliciously in any way against Northwood Studios" will result in discipline, up to permanent removal from MemeSCP.[11]
June 1, 2023
Shiro announces the release of a Factorio server.[12]

DDoS attacks

MemeSCP has sustained a total of 9 publicly declared Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

Date Total Downtime Notes Citation
February 4, 2021 48 minutes N/A [7]
February 21, 2021 N/A An announcement wasn't made regarding when services returned. [13]
April 9, 2021 1 hour, 50 minutes Downtime encompassed moving servers to another VPS. [14]
November 20, 2021 6 minutes Dowtime may have started prior to initial announcement. [15]
May 16, 2022 N/A Downtime had gone on "for quite some time" prior to announcement. Characterized as "particularly nasty". [16]
November 24, 2022 8 hours, 13 minutes N/A [17]
January 5, 2023 4 hours, 2 minutes 2 attacks in a row resulting in outage. [18]
January 7, 2023 40 minutes N/A [19]
January 11, 2023 35 minutes N/A [19]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 A server endorsed publicly on the SCP: Secret Laboratory Discord server. They are placed on the top of the in-game server list.
  2. ↑ Derived from the oldest message available on the Discord server.
  3. ↑ Chronology is determined via announcements made in the #announcements-like channels of the Discord server. Earliest announcement is from 2020 despite earliest message in any channel being from 2018. Events may be missed.
  4. ↑ DDoS attacks are purposefully not mentioned in the chronology again. See relevant section.

References

  1. ↑ Shiro (4 March 2023). MemeSCP3.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  2. ↑ Deleted User (13 January 2018). MemeSCP2.png. #bot-commands [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  3. ↑ File:MemeSCP1.png (Web screenshot). Discord Server Info. Retrieved 2023-10-03 – via Online Communipedia.
  4. ↑ "MemeSCP Community". Patreon. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  5. ↑ Redolant (26 November 2020). MemeSCP4.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05. We have opened a Modded Minecraft server...
  6. ↑ Shiro (18 December 2020). MemeSCP5.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05. Hello, I have increased the amount of slots to 30.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Redolant (4 February 2021). MemeSCP6.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05. Server going down temporarily to inspect the DDoS attack.
  8. ↑ Shiro (16 February 2021). MemeSCP7.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05. The SL Server is now back up on the list and with official status.
  9. ↑ Shiro (10 March 2021). MemeSCP9.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05. The data centre that the VPS is hosted in had a large fire incident last night.
  10. ↑ Shiro (14 March 2021). MemeSCP18.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05. The server is up again...
  11. ↑ Shiro (28 November 2021). MemeSCP12.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  12. ↑ Shiro (1 June 2023). MemeSCP17.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05. ...we now have a Factorio server.
  13. ↑ Shiro (21 February 2021). MemeSCP8.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  14. ↑ Shiro (9 April 2021). MemeSCP10.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  15. ↑ Shiro (20 November 2021). MemeSCP11.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  16. ↑ Shiro (16 May 2022). MemeSCP13.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  17. ↑ Sqbika (24 November 2022). MemeSCP14.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  18. ↑ Shiro (5 January 2023). MemeSCP15.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Sqbika (7 January 2023). MemeSCP16.png. #announcements [MemeSCP]. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
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