CPU selection is the most consequential hardware decision for a dedicated game server. The wrong CPU costs you players through lag, or costs you money through unnecessary over-provisioning. This guide…

RAM is the most commonly over-provisioned and under-analyzed resource in game server hosting. Server owners either buy too little RAM and trigger OOM kills during peak hours, or buy far…

ARK: Survival Ascended (ASA) is a complete Unreal Engine 5 remake of ARK: Survival Evolved, and its dedicated server demands substantially more hardware than the original. If you are upgrading…

Palworld dedicated servers are notorious for high RAM consumption and CPU load that scales aggressively with player count and base activity. Unlike a typical survival game, Palworld combines creature AI…

Rust is one of the most demanding multiplayer survival games to self-host. Its dedicated server must handle hundreds of player-built structures, AI entities (animals, scientists, NPCs), and the physics of…

Network latency is the silent killer of game server performance. You can have the fastest CPU and the most RAM, but if your network stack is misconfigured, players experience rubber-banding,…

Latency is the silent killer of multiplayer gaming. You can have the fastest CPU and enough RAM to run 10 game servers, but if your network stack introduces 50ms of…

When your game community grows past what a single dedicated server can handle, you enter a new world of infrastructure challenges. One Minecraft server maxes out around 200 players. One…

Indie game development has never been more accessible, but choosing the right server infrastructure for your game’s multiplayer mode remains one of the hardest decisions developers face. Unity Netcode, Unreal…

Not all game servers are created equal. A battle royale server that handles 100 players for 20-minute matches has radically different hardware requirements from a survival server that runs 24/7…