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Running several game servers on one box
They cannot see each other and they are competing. CPU contention, the memory arithmetic, and the port map nobody writes down.
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What latency actually costs your server
Hosting is a geography decision first and a specification decision second, and every comparison page has that backwards.
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Guides · Terraria
Terraria: dedicated server versus Host and Play
One question decides it, and it is not a technical one. Plus the tModLoader split and the single file your whole world lives in.
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Docker memory limits and the OOM killer
The limit is enforced by killing, the log says nothing, and the evidence is outside the container. Why heap must sit under the wall.
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What the Pterodactyl panel hides
The CPU limit is not cores and the memory limit is a wall, not a budget. Two misread numbers, and the crash that leaves no log.
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Guides · FiveM
The FiveM server.cfg, line by line
It is a list of console commands, not a config file. What each line does, the two keys that must never be committed, and the order problem.
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Guides · Minecraft
When a Minecraft proxy is the wrong answer
Velocity and BungeeCord solve one problem and bring three. The honest threshold for needing a proxy, and what it never fixes.
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A systemd unit for a game server that restarts correctly
Fifteen lines that replace a screen session and a cron job, and the four of them that decide whether a crash loop is survivable.
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The economics of running a free server
Twelve to fifty euros a month, and a workload nobody prices. Why free is the default, and what selling perks changes about what your server is.
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Guides · Minecraft
Pre-generating a Minecraft world, and why it helps
Terrain generation is the most expensive thing your server does, at the worst moment. How far out to go, and the border you want anyway.
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Picking a game to host, and the workload that comes with it
Session length and switching cost predict the workload better than genre does. Population threshold, cost, update cadence and tooling maturity.
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Scheduled tasks on a game server, and failing safely
Backups, restarts, updates, cleanup. Getting them on a schedule is easy; making the failures visible is the part that takes thought.
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