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Choosing a Game Mode When You Start a Server
Choosing a mode is a decision about where there is room, not what you like. How to spot the gaps, and how much moderation each mode quietly costs.
· 8 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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When to Run a Second Server Instead of a Bigger One
Splitting a population is usually a mistake and occasionally the only fix. The arithmetic that decides it, and what it costs in moderation.
· 7 min read
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Reading Your Server's Stats: Uptime, Peak Hours and Retention
The player count is the least informative number on the page. Everything useful is in the shape, and it takes five minutes a week to read.
· 7 min read
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How to List Your Game Server on JoinGG
What the submission form asks and why, what happens in the seconds after you press submit, and the two cases where a listing waits for a person.
· 7 min read
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Getting a Server Listing Found in Google
What a listing page can and cannot do for search, why a new one is invisible for weeks, and the parts an owner actually controls.
· 7 min read
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The First 30 Days of a New Server Listing
A week-by-week account of a new listing's first month: what normal looks like, which early numbers are noise, and when quiet means something is wrong.
· 7 min read
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Why Modded Servers Take So Long to Join
Where the wait comes from, what an owner can cut, and why the person running the server has never experienced it.
· 7 min read
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What a Player Count on a Server List Really Tells You
Bots, reserved slots, idle connections and a number sampled minutes ago. What the figure is, and the three ways it gets inflated.
· 7 min read
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Peak Hours: When a Server Is Actually Worth Joining
Every server has a shape to its day, set by the timezone of the people who built it. Reading it opens up most of the directory.
· 7 min read
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Advertising a Game Server: What Works and What Wastes Money
An honest accounting of every channel a server owner is sold, and why retention sets the ceiling on all of them.
· 7 min read
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Putting a Live Server Banner on Your Site or Discord
A screenshot from 2024 cannot tell a visitor whether anything is happening now. A live banner can, in one line of HTML.
· 8 min read
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Appealing a Ban Without Making It Worse
What an admin reads first, the three openings that guarantee a rejection, and a template that works because it forces the right structure.
· 7 min read