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Sizing, operations and the parts of hosting that are usually explained badly. Written by the people who run the platform, mostly because we got tired of answering the same question in tickets.
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Operations14 min read
What to do when a mod update breaks your server
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Operations14 min read
Server monitoring: the four checks worth alerting on
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Networking13 min read
Static IP addresses: when you need one and when you do not
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Networking14 min read
DNS records explained: A, CNAME, SRV, TXT, MX and TTL
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Networking13 min read
Subdomains for servers: a name per game server and app
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Networking12 min read
Connecting a domain to a game server: A, SRV and ports
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Networking11 min read
SRV records for Minecraft: the fields, and how to test them
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Networking12 min read
IPv6 and game servers: where it helps and where it bites
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Networking13 min read
Latency, jitter and packet loss: how to tell lag apart
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Security13 min read
The firewall rules that actually matter, and the ones that do not
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