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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.
· 3 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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Ping, Interpolation and Rubber-Banding: Netcode for Players
Why you get shot behind a wall, why you rubber-band, and why a steady 60ms connection beats a jumpy 30ms one. The client side of netcode, explained.
· 8 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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Ping and Latency Explained for Online Gaming
What ping actually measures, why jitter is often worse than a higher steady ping, why bandwidth will not fix it, and which parts are in your control.
· 15 min read
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Where to Host a Game Server: Choosing a Region
Latency is decided by distance and routing, not bandwidth. How to find where your players are before picking a region, and what to do when they are split.
· 13 min read