Valheim Worlds Grow, and So Does Your RAM Bill Valheim’s dedicated server is unusually deceptive about resource requirements. A fresh world with 10 players runs comfortably on 4 GB. The…

Rust Dedicated Server Hardware: Why Sizing Is Different Rust (the survival game, not the programming language) is one of the most hardware-hungry mainstream dedicated servers. A wipe-day server with 200…

Every SSD has a write budget expressed in terabytes written (TBW), and a game server is one of the few consumer-facing workloads that can actually exhaust it. The reason is…

Project Zomboid is unusual among survival game servers because its hardware profile is dominated by zombie population, not player count. A 16-player server running the default apocalypse preset spawns far…

Save corruption is the failure that kills communities. Hardware failure is loud and recoverable; a corrupted world file is silent until players log in and find their bases gone. This…

Dune: Awakening shipped dedicated server tooling that surprises operators used to Minecraft or Valheim provisioning. The world is a single persistent realm with dozens of concurrent players, deep survival simulation,…

Terraria server hardware numbers: RAM by world size, CPU behaviour under TShock plugins, and the setup steps that keep a 16-player server at a stable 60 UPS.

Concrete sysctl, IRQ, and scheduler settings that cut game server jitter: UDP buffer sizes, C-state latency, CPU affinity, and the 99th-percentile tick test.

A 64-slot Minecraft server is not four times harder to run than a 16-slot server. Player count drives RAM and network roughly linearly, but CPU load comes from loaded chunks,…

Every game server has a capacity ceiling, and every growing community eventually hits it on a launch night, a patch release, or a streamer raid. The choice is not whether…