The old answer to “dedicated or VPS?” was a vague nod toward bigger numbers. This article replaces that with a cost-per-player and cost-per-site model so the decision becomes arithmetic, not…

Most game dedicated servers are CPU-bound and never touch the GPU — but a growing set of workloads genuinely need one. Cloud gaming instances, AI-driven NPC testing, UE5 dedicated servers…

Storage is the most under-specified component on dedicated game servers. Most order forms list “SSD” without saying whether the drive is a SATA model capped at 550 MB/s or a…

DDoS protection on a game server is sold in two incompatible ways. Some hosts market a mitigation capacity figure in terabits; others sell “always-on filtering.” Neither tells you whether your…

The VPS vs. dedicated server decision is the most expensive mistake a gaming community can make in either direction. Move too early and you pay dedicated prices for a server…

A DDR4 DIMM experiences roughly one correctable single-bit error per 1,000 hours of operation per 8 GB stick under normal conditions — and on a game server, an uncorrected bit…

Video encoding and transcoding are the workloads where a dedicated server earns its keep. Unlike a web server, which idles between requests, an encoding box runs at full tilt for…

“Move to dedicated when you outgrow a VPS” is true but useless as a decision rule, because nobody notices the moment they outgrow anything. CPU graphs look fine, the site…

One hundred thousand daily visitors is a workload most site owners assume requires a cloud cluster or a Kubernetes fleet. It does not. A single well-configured dedicated server can serve…

DayZ is among the most RAM-intensive survival games to host. Unlike simpler game servers where memory requirements scale predictably with player count, DayZ’s memory footprint depends on a complex interaction…