Usually the result of unsafe thread operations. Meaning something is being edited by two different sources at the same time. With so little information, I don’t want to start pointing fingers. Have you removed mods on the server one by one, to see which is causing the issue?
I guess you added a mod twice by accident. Your Pixelmon Coremod is named Pixelmon-1.8-4.0.8-universal (1).jar, is there a Pixelmon-1.8-4.0.8-universal.jar present?
Essentials wasn’t working so I just updated sponge, forge and essentials . I added one at a time and they all were working perfectly until last evening. I’ll try removing them one by one.
I removed all mods and server still crashed. I created a new world and reloaded mods one at a time and everything is working again. Seems the first world was corrupted. I downgraded to sponge dev 716 since @Toothpick thought 717 was possibly the problem. I tried downloading newer versions of sponge but anything above 717 took me to a 404 page.
Thanks!
Edit: same problem occurred after downgraded to 716, server crashes after several people join and then no one can join again.
Updated to spongeforge 1.8 1521-2.1 dev 735 and server working again with several people on. We’ve been on for several hours with no crashing.