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Funding a Community Server Without Selling Advantage
What a server actually costs, the models that do not distort play, and exactly where the line between cosmetic and pay-to-win sits.
· 7 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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Surf Servers Explained
A physics quirk from 2003 that became a discipline with its own maps, tiers and world records. What surf is, and where to start.
· 7 min read
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How to list your Discord server on JoinGG
Add our bot and the listing is live: no form, no approval queue. What the bot can see, where the numbers come from, and how the ranking works.
· 6 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
CS:GO Community Servers in 2026: What Still Runs
Counter-Strike 2 replaced CS:GO, but the community server scene did not simply vanish with it. What survives, who still plays it, and how to connect.
· 10 min read
Guides · Day of Defeat
Day of Defeat Servers: The Complete Guide
Day of Defeat is a WWII class-based objective shooter with a persistent community. Classes, objectives, installing it and finding a server worth joining.
· 12 min read
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Keeping a Game Server Running After You Close the Terminal
Screen, tmux and systemd solve the same problem differently. Which to use, and why the answer changes once the server matters.
· 7 min read
Guides · Day of Defeat: Source
Day of Defeat: Source Servers: Complete Guide
How Day of Defeat: Source differs from the GoldSrc original, what its community servers actually run, and how to install it and find one worth joining.
· 10 min read
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Dedicated Server vs Listen Server: The Difference
Why the host advantage is real, why a listen server dies when the host leaves, and the point at which playing with friends becomes running a real server.
· 13 min read
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Seasons and Resets: When a Wipe Helps and When It Kills
A reset buys back the early game and spends player investment to do it. Which servers survive the trade and which do not.
· 7 min read
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Linux Basics for Game Server Owners
The dozen commands that cover almost everything a server owner needs, and the four mistakes that cost people their machines.
· 7 min read
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Server Economies: Currency, Shops and Inflation
Every player-driven economy inflates, for a structural reason. The three sinks that actually work, and the inflows that quietly break everything.
· 7 min read
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Dedicated vs VPS vs Shared Game Server Hosting
What each hosting model actually gives you, why single-thread CPU dominates most game servers, and how to tell when you have outgrown the one you are on.
· 16 min read