Game Updates · Minecraft
Minecraft Snapshot 25w43a Reworks Spears for Hosts
Minecraft snapshot 25w43a updates spear combat, shifts world border interpolation to game ticks, and brings Data Pack version 91.0 for server hosts.
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The first hour of an incident
Stop the bleeding, copy the evidence, say something within fifteen minutes. The order matters more than the fix.
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Guides
The staging server nobody has
A few pounds a month against the update that breaks in front of a hundred people. What twenty minutes of testing actually catches.
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Whitelisting, and who it keeps out
The most effective moderation tool and the most expensive one. The cost is your growth rate, and nobody evaluates that part.
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Running several game servers on one box
They cannot see each other and they are competing. CPU contention, the memory arithmetic, and the port map nobody writes down.
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Reading server logs without drowning
Four categories, two that need you. Start at the top rather than the bottom, and learn what a quiet log looks like.
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What latency actually costs your server
Hosting is a geography decision first and a specification decision second, and every comparison page has that backwards.
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Scheduled restarts: cure or bandage
The useful question is not whether to restart. It is whether yours is buying headroom or hiding a leak that is getting worse.
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Your first plugin list, and what to resist
Four plugins make a working server. Everything after that is thirty chances the next update breaks you and twenty authors who might stop.
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Guides · Minecraft
Pregenerating a world, and why the border comes first
Terrain generation is the most expensive thing a server does. Move it to a time nobody is playing, and set the edge before you start.
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Guides · Terraria
Terraria: dedicated server versus Host and Play
One question decides it, and it is not a technical one. Plus the tModLoader split and the single file your whole world lives in.
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Moving a game server without losing players
The copy is never the hard part. The DNS work you do a week early, and the old box you leave running to point the way.
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Game Updates · Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 Update October 12 2026 Patches Crash
The Team Fortress 2 update October 12 2026 fixes a server-crashing Dragon's Fury exploit, updates community maps, and resolves zombie interface glitches.
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Your query port is why nobody can find your server
A server can run perfectly and appear on no listing at all. Two ports, two jobs, and the silence UDP gives you when one is blocked.
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Installing Metamod:Source and SourceMod without breaking it
Two pieces of software, one job, and an install order that decides everything. Plus the gamedata errors that look like plugin bugs.
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Guides · Minecraft
Paper configuration beyond server.properties
Three more files hold the settings that decide whether a busy server runs well. Which entries matter, and which ones hide a problem.
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Guides · FiveM
txAdmin as a supervisor, not a control panel
The web console is the smallest part of what it does. Which features earn their place, and the one that can delete months of work.
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Guides · Rust
Rust server configuration and the wipe calendar
The only major game where the calendar is part of the config. Map wipes against blueprint wipes, and the decay setting that decides week two.
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Docker memory limits and the OOM killer
The limit is enforced by killing, the log says nothing, and the evidence is outside the container. Why heap must sit under the wall.
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Log rotation, and the disk that fills at the worst moment
The most common way a long-running server dies has nothing to do with the game. Four things that grow without limit, and ten minutes that stop them.
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Firewall rules for game servers: UDP is not TCP
Six rules, and the two that decide whether you are invisible to listings or wide open on RCON. Plus the conntrack table nobody expects.
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What the Pterodactyl panel hides
The CPU limit is not cores and the memory limit is a wall, not a budget. Two misread numbers, and the crash that leaves no log.
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Guides · Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod workshop: what the server mounts, what the client gets
Two separate questions, and most missing-texture problems come from answering one while believing you answered the other.
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SRV records, and what resolvers actually do
Priority, weight, port, target. The trailing dot that eats hours, the second record everyone forgets, and the TTL step before a move.
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