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How much bandwidth a game server actually uses
Small per player, relentless, and billed by the month. Why operators over-buy CPU and under-buy transfer, with the arithmetic to size it.
· 5 min read
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Docker for game servers: what it buys and what it costs
Isolation and reproducible rebuilds against networking complexity and a real risk of discarding data. When containers repay the overhead.
· 6 min read
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Query port vs game port: why nobody can find your server
A server that works and cannot be found is almost always one closed UDP port. How to tell the two failures apart in thirty seconds.
· 6 min read
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Playing With Friends in Another Region
Someone has to take the ping. Why the midpoint server is usually the worst option, and how much it matters game by game.
· 7 min read
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When to Run a Second Server Instead of a Bigger One
Splitting a population is usually a mistake and occasionally the only fix. The arithmetic that decides it, and what it costs in moderation.
· 7 min read
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Advertising a Game Server: What Works and What Wastes Money
An honest accounting of every channel a server owner is sold, and why retention sets the ceiling on all of them.
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Server Owner Burnout and Handing Over the Keys
Why long-running servers close, what has to be transferred before the keys change hands, and how to shut one down deliberately instead of just going quiet.
· 8 min read
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Custom Domains and SRV Records for Game Servers
DNS cannot point at a port, which is why game server addresses are awkward. What an SRV record does, which games read one, and how to move hosts invisibly.
· 9 min read
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SteamCMD and app IDs: installing a dedicated server
The game and its dedicated server are different products with different IDs. What validate does, why betas empty a fleet, and how much disk to keep free.
· 6 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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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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Dedicated Server vs Listen Server: The Difference
Why the host advantage is real, why a listen server dies when the host leaves, and the point at which playing with friends becomes running a real server.
· 13 min read