Past roughly 500 concurrent players, a game platform stops being one server and becomes a topology. Instances, proxies, a shared database, and a file tier each have budgets, and the…

CPU selection is the most consequential hardware decision for a dedicated game server. The wrong CPU costs you players through lag, or costs you money through unnecessary over-provisioning. This guide…

RAM is the most commonly over-provisioned and under-analyzed resource in game server hosting. Server owners either buy too little RAM and trigger OOM kills during peak hours, or buy far…

An ARK cluster is not a single server — it is a fleet. Most communities run three to eight maps (Island, Ragnarok, Extinction, Aberration, Genesis, plus mod maps) that transfer…

Latency on a game server is decided mostly by physics and packet scheduling, not by the raw speed of your NIC. You can rent a 10 Gbps port and still…

Kernel bypass for game servers: measured latency for standard UDP, SO_BUSY_POLL, AF_XDP and DPDK, plus flow-steering config and when bypass is the wrong fix.

When your game community grows past what a single dedicated server can handle, you enter a new world of infrastructure challenges. One Minecraft server maxes out around 200 players. One…

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…

Battle royale, survival, MMO, and open-world sandbox servers look interchangeable on a spec sheet, but they stress dedicated hardware in completely different ways. A battle royale server that runs 100…

Horde night in 7 Days to Die is the ultimate stress test for a dedicated server. When dozens of zombies spawn per player and the physics engine simulates structural collapse…