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Buying FiveM scripts safely: escrow, Tebex and leaks
What arrives when you buy a FiveM script, what escrow encrypts, which Cfx.re account owns it, and how to check a resource you did not write for backdoors.
· 6 min read
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Rotating the secrets a game server accumulates
Six categories of credential, each with a different blast radius, and most servers cannot list them. Rotate on departure, not on a calendar.
· 4 min read
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Permissions inheritance that does not collapse
Model roles, not people. Inherit upward, never sideways. And the wildcard that grants every permission you have not installed yet.
· 4 min read
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Surviving a traffic flood as a small server
Four different things run out and they need different answers. Why a bigger box rarely helps, and the firewall rule that outlives the attack.
· 3 min read
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Backups that leave the building
A copy on the same machine survives exactly one failure. Write-only credentials, what to include beyond the world, and testing the restore.
· 5 min read
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RCON without leaving it open to the internet
Whoever reaches the port and knows the password runs commands as your server. Ten minutes to make it unreachable instead of merely protected.
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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.
· 5 min read
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SourceMod admins and immunity, done properly
Flags are capabilities, not ranks, and z is not the top of the ladder. How to hand out admin without handing over the server.
· 3 min read
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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.
· 7 min read
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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.
· 7 min read
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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.
· 7 min read
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When Cheaters Arrive All at Once
Waves have a shape. The instinctive responses address the symptom, and the expensive damage is social rather than technical.
· 7 min read