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The real cost of moderation tooling
A durable record and coverage while you sleep, against another system that breaks and a process now harder to change. When to adopt one.
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A player banned somewhere else: three workable positions
You do not know what happened and cannot find out. Decide the policy before it arrives, because improvising is what communities argue about.
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Retiring a server gracefully, in about a week
The default ending is an address that stops answering. Give notice, give them the world download, hold a last evening — or hand it over.
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A player report process that still works at 3am
One place to report, a record so patterns are visible, more than one person who can act, and a reply to whoever bothered to tell you.
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The economics of running a free server
Twelve to fifty euros a month, and a workload nobody prices. Why free is the default, and what selling perks changes about what your server is.
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Pre-generating a Minecraft world, and why it helps
Terrain generation is the most expensive thing your server does, at the worst moment. How far out to go, and the border you want anyway.
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Handling a duplication exploit without killing the economy
The first hour decides it. Why publishing the method is the mistake, how to decide about the items, and what to do with the people who used it.
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Scheduled tasks on a game server, and failing safely
Backups, restarts, updates, cleanup. Getting them on a schedule is easy; making the failures visible is the part that takes thought.
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Keeping your regulars through a major game update
The risk is not the downtime, it is the dispersal. Announce before they find out, keep the group together elsewhere, and return in stages.
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When a plugin author disappears, and the update lands
Wait, replace, fork, or drop the feature. How to tell an abandoned project from a quiet one, and why dropping it is the underrated option.
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Guides · Minecraft
Nine Minecraft Plugins Most Servers Should Be Running
The plugins most servers should run, the ones people install and regret, and why a small stack is the difference between a hobby and a second job.
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Disk Speed Matters More Than You Think
Most stutter blamed on the CPU is a scheduled write. How to tell whether the disk is your problem, and what faster storage does and does not buy you.
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