How This Started: The Obsidian Origin Story
From a single dedicated box to a proper hosting operation — how Obsidian Servers became what eventually became HyperVeil.
From a single dedicated box to a proper hosting operation — how Obsidian Servers became what eventually became HyperVeil.
The honest version of how this started is that we needed somewhere to run our own Minecraft server and the options available at the time were either expensive, unreliable, or both. So instead of paying someone else to do it badly, we rented a dedicated server, set up Pterodactyl, and started hosting for ourselves and a few friends.
At some point the friends started asking if they could host their servers on it too. Then their friends asked. Then someone suggested we should just charge for it properly and make it a real thing. That's roughly how Obsidian Servers started — not with a business plan or a launch event, but with a Pterodactyl installation and a group chat.
Running a server for yourself and running one as a service for paying customers are very different things. The expectations are different, the reliability requirements are different, and the support burden is completely different. We learned that quickly. The first DDoS attack (which we've written about separately) was a particularly sharp lesson. So was the first time a customer's world got corrupted and we realised our backup story wasn't good enough.
Each problem we hit pushed us to build something better. The DDoS attack led to real mitigation infrastructure. The backup issues led to a proper backup system. The hardware limitations led to the NVMe refresh. The name we'd picked on a whim eventually stopped fitting what we'd become — which is where HyperVeil comes in.
We're still a small operation. We don't have a team of dozens or a venture-backed war chest. What we do have is infrastructure we've built carefully over time, lessons learned the hard way, and a genuine interest in keeping your server online. That's what we started with and it's what we're still about.