v1.0 : Dawn of the Network
ColonThreeMC didn't start from nothing. It started from Amber's Minecraft servers, which were having uptime and reliability issues. Jamie was put in charge to keep it all on autopilot for her.
Jamie (that's me!) took the reins and got to work. She migrated everything off the old infrastructure and onto high-capacity on-premise hardware that she personally operates.
v1.1 : Birth of the Network
Running two isolated servers side by side wasn't going to cut it. I LOVE networks. In v1.1, the standalone servers were merged into a proper Velocity network, a single connected platform that players could move between seamlessly.
With that came cross-server chat and the beginnings of Bedrock support. From a few tiny, breaking Minecraft servers to a unified network.
Modded got the axe. That was just too broken to fix, and the thing about modded servers is that you can't really update them. They are stuck on one version, and then DIE, and all builds get wiped. I HATE that idea, so I didn't replace it with a new modded server.