“100-slot server” is one of the most misleading phrases in game hosting. Slot counts are marketing: the same game, same CPU, and same RAM can comfortably host 120 players on…

Enshrouded, Keen Games’ survival action-RPG, supports up to 16 players on a single world — and like every game in that genre, the experience lives or dies on the server….

Palworld runs on Unreal Engine 5 and its dedicated server is noticeably hungrier than most survival games. A 32-player world is the default ceiling – MaxPlayers caps at 32 –…

Minecraft server performance is not a mystery, but it is counterintuitive. The game is single-threaded at its core: one CPU core drives the tick loop, world simulation, and entity logic….

Valheim’s dedicated server is one of the least demanding game servers you can host, but it has one catch: it relies almost entirely on a single CPU core. A 10-player…

Sons of the Forest ships a dedicated server tool that is lightweight on RAM but hungry for single-core speed. Official minimums list 4 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM;…

A Terraria dedicated server for 8 players runs comfortably on a single 2 GHz core and 1–2 GB of RAM. Push to 16 players with TShock, world backups, and a…

Unturned is easy to dismiss as “the free zombie game,” but its dedicated server is a real workload with specific quirks. The good news: it is far lighter than ARK…

FiveM roleplay servers need more CPU, RAM, and bandwidth than most game servers. Here are the 2026 specs for 48, 64-128, and 128-300 slot cities.

Factorio servers live or die on UPS. Single-thread CPU speed is everything: sizing guidance for starter worlds, mid game, and megabases.