A game server without a tested backup strategy is one hardware failure away from losing months of player progress. World saves, config files, and plugin data are small in absolute…

Modern game servers rarely use every core you give them — most run their simulation on one or two threads while the rest of the box idles. On a shared…

“How many players can a game server handle?” is the first question every new server owner asks, and the honest answer is: it depends on the game engine, the tick…

If you have ever rented a game server and wondered why one host charges more for “128 tick,” this is the setting behind that price difference. The tick rate controls…

Most Minecraft server crashes are not caused by too little RAM. They are caused by RAM that is allocated badly: a heap sized without regard for the Java garbage collector,…

Counter-Strike 2 runs on Source 2, and its dedicated server requirements are noticeably higher than CS:GO’s. Valve’s own documentation lists 4 GB of RAM and a 2 GHz dual-core as…

Game development puts a different profile on hardware than game hosting does. A build server for Unreal Engine or Unity runs short, massively parallel CPU bursts, moves gigabytes of assets…

“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 –…