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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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Web hosting11 min read
HTTPS and Let's Encrypt: how ACME issues your certificate
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Minecraft13 min read
Minecraft Velocity network: lobby, survival, minigames
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VDS13 min read
Nginx reverse proxy guide: server blocks, TLS and websockets
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Databases15 min read
phpMyAdmin import and export: limits, charsets and fixes
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Networking13 min read
Reading traceroute and MTR without fooling yourself
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Networking15 min read
Game server ports explained: query ports, RCON and firewalls
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Security14 min read
What we do about attacks, and what no host can do
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Networking13 min read
Where your game server should live: latency by geography
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Networking13 min read
What a reverse proxy does: TLS, hostnames and forwarded IPs
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