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Proxies and Why Some Servers Hide Their Real Address
A proxy solves two problems and introduces three. When it makes sense, the mistake that makes it pointless, and the cheaper things that solve most of it.
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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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Choosing a Host: The Six Questions That Decide It
None of them is answered on the marketing page, and how readily a provider answers is itself the most reliable signal on the list.
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What DDoS Protection Actually Buys You
Nothing you configure on the machine stops a flood. What is being sold, the four questions to ask a host, and the one thing you control.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Automating Server Restarts Without Annoying Everyone
Why servers need restarting at all, how to schedule one nobody notices, and the warning cadence that stops people losing work.
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Databases for Game Servers: When You Need One and What Breaks
SQLite until it is not enough, MySQL after that. What plugins actually store, and the three failures that lose player data.
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Private Servers and Passwords: How They Actually Work
Running a server for a group without hiding it from your friends. What a password does, what it does not, and the alternatives.
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Game Server Security: The Things That Actually Get People
Not exotic attacks. Default passwords, exposed ports, unpatched panels and a plugin from a forum post. What to close, in order.
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Reading Game Server Logs Without Drowning
Logs are where every answer already is. What to grep for, which warnings matter, and why the last error is rarely the cause.
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