The-Depths - Historical

The Depths is a friendly, community-orientated, high-power Minecraft server employing some of the latest technologies available within the world of Minecraft.

Originally founded in mid-2010 by Antoligy as a classic server, The Depths was known as 'TempCraft' and it was intended to be a private server for GBAtemp users. However, as time went on, new folk who were unrelated to GBAtemp began to pop-up and so this status was lost almost as soon as it had been gained.
A community rapidly grew from the single server, and it exceeded the capabilities of it's original host (Jan Prunk's Shell Project), and so moved to Burst.NET's Virtual Private Server range to combat the demand.
TempCraft Classic ran on the popular iCraft Minecraft Server software, written in Python (to 2.6 specification) and maintained largely by the Archives team, which offered Antoligy an honorary placement as a result of it's relative success.
TempCraft Classic's uptime and stability meant that it would regularly appear near the top of the Classic Servers list, and as such it's influence could be seen as YouTube videos popped up of various in-game events, most popularly the Herobrine Hack incident (as recorded by Neko).
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Roughly in October 2010 the first Survival Server was donated to TempCraft by GutsMan.EXE. The hardware itself was a corporate beast, offering 32GB RAM, 4TB diskspace in RAID-10 and a 12-core Xeon processor -- of course this was unsustainable for long-term use, and so an alternative was bought towards the end of the billing month.
The server attracted over 4,000 users in the brief period it ran (just over a month, running on hMod with MCMyAdmin Professional as a front-end), although unfortunately GutsMan.EXE had to pull funding for personal reasons and so the server went down.
Jdbye stepped in and offered to pay for and maintain another server around December 2010 - terms to which Antoligy agreed, gradually handing over complete control/ownership over the following months.
TempCraft initially experienced a large spike in users, before declining as Jdbye implemented various inconveniences such as the original Custom Authentication Server. This led to several jokes, such as the invention of the name 'JdbyeCraft' to describe how Jdbye used the server as a sandbox.