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When a plugin author disappears, and the update lands
Wait, replace, fork, or drop the feature. How to tell an abandoned project from a quiet one, and why dropping it is the underrated option.
· 5 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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Latest guides — page 5
388 resultsGuides · Minecraft
Nine Minecraft Plugins Most Servers Should Be Running
The plugins most servers should run, the ones people install and regret, and why a small stack is the difference between a hobby and a second job.
· 7 min read
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Disk Speed Matters More Than You Think
Most stutter blamed on the CPU is a scheduled write. How to tell whether the disk is your problem, and what faster storage does and does not buy you.
· 7 min read
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Writing a Whitelist Application That Gets Accepted
Applications are rejected for four reasons and bad writing is not one of them. What the reviewer is looking for, and a version that takes three minutes.
· 7 min read
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Factions: Minecraft's Oldest PvP Format
Power, land and raiding. How the territory mechanic works, why the format is not what you remember, and where in a season to arrive.
· 7 min read
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Bedwars and the Minigame Network
Four teams, four beds, and a queue rather than a place. What separates a minigame network from every other kind of Minecraft server.
· 7 min read
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Finding the plugin conflict, without losing the evening
A server that worked yesterday and does not today is usually two plugins disagreeing. The bisect works — in the right order, on a copy.
· 5 min read
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The Source server settings that actually matter
Fifteen convars out of several hundred decide how a server feels, whether it gets listed, and whether it stays yours.
· 5 min read
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IPv6 for game servers: mostly irrelevant, occasionally essential
Widely deployed everywhere except game hosting, because the query protocols predate it. The one case where it is the only way to be reachable.
· 5 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike 2
Executes, Practice Servers and Nade Lineups
What a practice server gives you that an empty one does not, how executes differ from retakes, and how to spend an hour on lineups without wasting it.
· 7 min read
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Proxies and Why Some Servers Hide Their Real Address
A proxy solves two problems and introduces three. When it makes sense, the mistake that makes it pointless, and the cheaper things that solve most of it.
· 7 min read
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Profiling a Server That Feels Slow but Logs Nothing
A server that is late rather than failing leaves no trace in the logs. How to establish the fact, read a profile, and name the guilty plugin in a minute.
· 7 min read