FTB Monster Recommended Optimizations, Disabled Features/Items, LWC Protection?

[CathalCraft]

I've been wanting to host a FTB server with a friend and I wanted to choose a pack that has a lot of features to allow players to have a large variety of things to do. I saw that Monster had a lot of mods, so I started setting it up. I'm using MCPC+ build 251 so I can use bukkit plugins such as Essentials, LWC, PEX, Vault, WorldEdit, and WorldGuard. I want the server to have a lot of players on at once; I'm thinking about 50.

start.sh: http://pastebin.com/F5y3E5Hm
bukkit.yml: http://pastebin.com/3UrUqmWd
spigot.yml: http://pastebin.com/7v2VRc3j

Dedicated Server
Intel Xeon E3 1245v2
32GB RAM
2x 120GB SSD RAID 1
200Mbps Bandwidth Outgoing
CentOS 6.5 64bit

Questions
What mods/mod features/items should I disable to prevent players from breaking the server or from easily griefing? I already disabled Dyetrees because it was causing connection lag.

What are some optimizations I could do, such as changes to the startup script?

Is there a list of blocks that should be protected by LWC?


I greatly appreciate anyone's help.

 

[Jammie]

First of all I would scrap any bukkit protection plugin and go with MyTown.
Obviously you'll probably need to limit chunkloading.
Portal guns will grief even a MyTown protected plot.
The pack is new and getting 20+ players without TPS drops is going to be hard, let's just hope for TT 1.6
I would also recommend not using any of the non default mods, especially the mob ones, they seem to cause lag and crashes.

I hope more people contribute to this, it'd be nice to have a collection of helpful tips for new server owners.

 

[CathalCraft]

First of all I would scrap any bukkit protection plugin and go with MyTown.
Obviously you'll probably need to limit chunkloading.
Portal guns will grief even a MyTown protected plot.
The pack is new and getting 20+ players without TPS drops is going to be hard, let's just hope for TT 1.6
I would also recommend not using any of the non default mods, especially the mob ones, they seem to cause lag and crashes.

I hope more people contribute to this, it'd be nice to have a collection of helpful tips for new server owners.

Thank you for your input.

I'll look into MyTown.
I wish there was an option in the portalgun mod config to disable moon portals.

 

[Stilleraben]

THe portal can be disabled in the %ServerRoot%/world/portalgun_world.cfg(may not be exact name) but it is located in that file.

 

[CathalCraft]

THe portal can be disabled in the %ServerRoot%/world/portalgun_world.cfg(may not be exact name) but it is located in that file.

I didn't even know about that config file. I went ahead and disabled moon portals and block pickup with the portal gun.

Thanks man!

 

[Jammie]

I didn't even know about that config file. I went ahead and disabled moon portals and block pickup with the portal gun.

Thanks man!

Also Portal gun portals load chunks that they're in. So if you're limiting chunkloading it's something to consider.