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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.
· 3 min read
Game Server Guides
Practical game server guides: set up and configure a server, pick the right plugins and mods, cut lag, and grow a community that keeps coming back.
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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.
· 4 min read
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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.
· 4 min read
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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.
· 3 min read
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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.
· 4 min read
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.
· 4 min read
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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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.
· 4 min read
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.
· 4 min read