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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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Your query port is why nobody can find your server
A server can run perfectly and appear on no listing at all. Two ports, two jobs, and the silence UDP gives you when one is blocked.
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Firewall rules for game servers: UDP is not TCP
Six rules, and the two that decide whether you are invisible to listings or wide open on RCON. Plus the conntrack table nobody expects.
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SRV records, and what resolvers actually do
Priority, weight, port, target. The trailing dot that eats hours, the second record everyone forgets, and the TTL step before a move.
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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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IPv6 for game servers: mostly irrelevant, occasionally essential
Widely deployed everywhere except game hosting, because the query protocols predate it. The one case where it is the only way to be reachable.
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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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What a proxy actually does for a server network
One address in front of several machines, and one thing that takes it all down when it stops. What you gain, what you pay, when it is worth it.
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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.
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Should You Block VPN Players?
VPN blocks stop some ban evaders and silently reject players on mobile networks, campus Wi-Fi and bad routes. Here is where the line actually belongs.
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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.
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Guides · Counter-Strike 2How a Valve update breaks CS2 community servers
Every CS2 engine update sends retake and deathmatch admins back to their configs. What breaks, in what order, and how to be ready for the next one.
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