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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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29 posts
Web hosting11 min read
HTTP caching headers explained: Cache-Control and ETag
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Sizing13 min read
Sizing a web app for launch day: cache, queries, headroom
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Databases12 min read
MongoDB connection string: URI, mongosh and drivers
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Operations13 min read
Discord webhooks for game server status and alerts
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Guides13 min read
FiveM server setup: licence key, txAdmin and server.cfg
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Security13 min read
Environment variables and secrets on an app server
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Networking13 min read
What a reverse proxy does: TLS, hostnames and forwarded IPs
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Guides16 min read
Sons of the Forest dedicated server: setup and settings
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App hosting13 min read
Background jobs on a small server, with or without Redis
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Operations13 min read
Why your game server keeps restarting, and how to fix it
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Operations13 min read
Reading a server load graph: memory, CPU and disk
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