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Game servers are a favorite target for attackers. They run on well-known ports, carry high bandwidth allocations, and host communities that attackers know will pay to recover lost worlds. A…
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Enterprise web clusters on dedicated servers: reference architecture, per-traffic-tier sizing table, scaling failure order, and the cloud-vs-bare-metal break-even point.
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Modded Minecraft is one of the hardest workloads a single-threaded-biased Java process can face. A pack like All the Mods 10 or GregTech: New Horizons will demand 8-14 GB of…
Read MoreGame Server Backup Strategy: RAID 10, Snapshots, and Offsite RPO/RTO Planning
A three-layer game server backup strategy: RAID 10 with cached controller, hourly snapshots, and offsite incremental replication, with RPO/RTO tables and restore drills.
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Player capacity is not a single number you can print on a sales page. It is the result of four hard limits: CPU clock on the simulation thread, RAM per…
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“My Minecraft server lags” is not a diagnosis — it is a symptom with at least six distinct hardware causes, each with a different fix and a different cost. This…
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UDP floods and reflection attacks do not care about your CPU clock speed. They care about whether the packets even reach a filter capable of dropping them without saturating an…
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Storage speed is one of the most overlooked factors in game server performance. Most operators focus on CPU and RAM, but the storage subsystem directly affects world save times, chunk…
Read MoreMinecraft Dedicated Server Acceptance Tests: Verify the Hardware You Were Sold
Most Minecraft hardware advice tells you what to buy. This article covers the step most admins skip: proving the server you were sold actually performs to spec before your community…
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