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Pterodactyl, TCAdmin and Doing Without a Panel
A panel is a delegation tool, not an operations strategy. Which to use depends entirely on who else needs to touch the server.
· 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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What a proxy actually does for a server network
One address in front of several machines, and one thing that takes it all down when it stops. What you gain, what you pay, when it is worth it.
· 5 min read
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Map rotation that keeps players through the change
The map change is when people leave, so rotation design is managing that moment. Length before order, and why free voting collapses variety.
· 6 min read
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Running a game server on your own hardware
Free machine, real electricity, and an upload speed that is probably your ceiling. Where home hosting is right and where it quietly is not.
· 6 min read
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Counter-Strike: Source Still Has More Community Servers Than CS2
Source has the mature plugin stack and a stable population. CS2 has the players. What each scene is good at, and what it costs to move between them.
· 7 min read
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GunGame Explained
The weapon changes on every kill and the last level is a knife. Twenty years old, still the best warm-up in the game.
· 7 min read
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AWP Servers
One weapon, one long map, and a reload you cannot survive. The oldest single-weapon format in Counter-Strike and why it outlived its own game.
· 7 min read
Guides · Half-Life
The Half-Life Mods That Never Stopped
Natural Selection, Team Fortress Classic and a dozen others still have servers with people on them. Why these survived, and how to get into one.
· 7 min read
Guides · Team Fortress 2
Mann vs Machine on Community Servers
Six strangers, waves of robots, and an upgrade system that punishes buying damage. How missions work, what each class is for, and how to pick a server.
· 7 min read
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A Migration Checklist in the Order Things Break
The world and the configs are the easy part. The cron jobs, firewall rules and secrets are what surface a week later, when the old machine is already gone.
· 7 min read
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Windows or Linux for a Game Server
An honest comparison rather than a recommendation. Where each genuinely wins, and the games where the choice is made for you.
· 7 min read
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Choosing which stats to show, and which to leave alone
Anything you rank, somebody will farm. What each common leaderboard actually rewards — and why private stats deliver most of the value.
· 5 min read