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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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RAM, Heap and Java Flags: What Actually Helps
Giving a Minecraft server more memory usually makes it worse. Why the heap size is not a speed setting, and the numbers that work.
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More Cores Will Not Fix Your Server
A game server simulates its world on one thread. The most expensive misunderstanding in hosting, and the measurement that settles it in a minute.
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Game Server Hardware: What Actually Matters
Why single-thread CPU beats core count for most game servers, why RAM is the usual ceiling, when disk speed matters, and how to find what is limiting you.
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