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The First 10 Minutes: Why New Players Leave Immediately
Players are finding your server and leaving inside a minute. Here is the friction in the join, the spawn and the first session, in the order it hits them.
· 7 min read
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Server Events That Bring Players Back
A launch party spikes your player count for one night. A repeating weekly event moves the floor. How to choose the night, the hour and the format.
· 7 min read
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Routing, GRE Tunnels and Why Ping Isn't Distance
A player 300km away pings worse than one 2,000km away. The cause is BGP, hot-potato peering and a tunnel nobody told you about, not your hardware.
· 10 min read
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Game Server Backups: What to Save and How
What actually needs backing up, why copying files from a running server can corrupt them, how often to back up, and the restore test almost nobody runs.
· 14 min read
Guides · FiveM
FiveM: ESX vs QBCore
ESX Legacy, QBCore and the Qbox fork compared on schema, script availability and migration cost, with a straight recommendation for each kind of owner.
· 8 min read
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Moderating a Game Server Community
What admins really spend their time on, how to recruit staff without promoting the wrong player, why appeals protect staff too, and how to survive burnout.
· 17 min read
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How to Connect to a Game Server by IP Address
Direct connect, game by game: what a server address is made of, why the port is not optional, and why an address can work for a friend but not for you.
· 15 min read
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TeamSpeak, Mumble or Discord: Voice Chat for a Game Community
Three tools with genuinely different trade-offs around cost, control and latency, and which kind of community each one actually suits.
· 7 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source Servers in 2026: Complete Guide
Counter-Strike: Source still runs hundreds of community servers. Zombie escape, surf, bhop and KZ explained, plus how to install it and find a good server.
· 16 min read
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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
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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