Bandwidth on a dedicated server is sold four different ways, and three of them are designed to look cheaper than they are. A 1 Gbps port quoted at $89 and…
Read MoreScaling Game Servers Past the Single-Node Ceiling: Sharding, Load Balancing and Fleet Patterns
Every game server has a breaking point. It is not the moment the CPU hits 100% — it is the moment the relationship between two numbers goes non-linear and the…
Read MoreChecking IP Transit Quality and Peering Before Renting Bare Metal
Test the route, not the ping in the advert Datacentre marketing quotes round-trip time to a few cities, but game and high-traffic workloads depend on the whole path: how many…
Read MoreSSD Over-Provisioning for Game Servers: Spare Area and Endurance Math
Enterprise SSDs slow down when their spare area is exhausted, and game servers write far more than typical workloads. Over-provisioning — leaving unallocated NAND beyond the drive’s advertised capacity —…
Read MoreHigh-Traffic Dedicated Server Hardware in 2026: The Six Specs That Decide Your Real Capacity
When a game server melts down during a launch spike, it is almost never one spec that failed. It is the combination of single-thread clock, memory bandwidth, storage IOPS, network…
Read MoreBandwidth Commit vs Burst on Dedicated Servers: 95th Percentile Billing Explained
Commit vs Burst: The Line That Decides Your Invoice When a dedicated server plan says “100 Mbps unmetered” or “1 Gbps with 10 TB included,” two different billing models are…
Read MoreDo You Need Colocation or a Rented Bare Metal Server? A 3-Year Break-Even Model
If you have already decided dedicated hardware is the right answer for your workload, there is a second decision underneath it: do you rent the machine, or own it and…
Read MoreWhen You Outgrow a VPS: Steal Time, I/O Wait, and Player-Count Thresholds for Dedicated Hardware
A VPS rarely fails suddenly. It degrades in a recognisable sequence: latency creeps up during peak hours, then player counts drop while the CPU sits at 100%, then the provider…
Read MoreColocation vs Dedicated Server Rental: 10Gbit Uplink Cost Model for Gaming Hosts
Colocation vs dedicated server rental for 10Gbit gaming hosts: full cost breakdown, 36-month break-even math, hybrid tiering model, and contract clauses to watch.
Read MoreBare Metal vs Virtualized Game Servers: Latency, Jitter, and Cost Benchmarks
“Is virtualized as fast as bare metal?” is the most common objection to renting a virtual game server. The honest answer is that modern KVM virtualization loses very little throughput…
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