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…

7 Days to Die is one of the most CPU-intensive survival games to self-host. Its Unity-based dedicated server simulates a fully destructible voxel world, entity AI for hundreds of zombies,…

Keeping game servers updated is the most consistent maintenance task in self-hosted game hosting. Missing a game update means players cannot connect after the patch drops. Running updates manually at…

Why Security Matters More for Game Servers Game servers are attractive targets. They run on well-known ports, often have high bandwidth allocations, and attract motivated attackers — from DDoS extortionists…

When Enterprise Workloads Outgrow the Cloud There is a common misconception that enterprise hosting means cloud — AWS, Azure, or GCP with their endless scalability and per-second billing. But for…

Modded Minecraft servers are among the most demanding workloads you can run on a dedicated server. A single modpack like All the Mods 9 or GregTech: New Horizons can require…

Game server data is expensive to recreate. A Minecraft world that 50 players have built on for six months represents thousands of hours of collective effort. A Rust server’s wipe-day…

The most common question new server owners ask is simple: how many players can my dedicated game server handle? The honest answer is that capacity depends on the game engine,…

Most Minecraft server lag is not caused by “too many players” or “slow internet.” It is caused by specific, measurable problems: incorrect JVM garbage collection settings, unoptimized world generation, excessive…