Tyler Morgan 
If you host a multiplayer server, you already know the pain: players start complaining about rubber-banding and lag, and you have no idea whether the processor is the culprit. Learning how to monitor game server CPU is the fastest way to take the guesswork out of performance tuning. Our team has run dedicated servers for … Read more
Setting up SSH key login and disabling root access is the single most important security step for any game server VPS. In our experience running community game hosts, an unprotected VPS running Minecraft, Valheim, CS2, or any other title can face 100 to 200 brute-force SSH attempts per day within hours of going online. I … Read more
Every millisecond of lag in a competitive match traces back to one decision: where your server physically sits. When I first started hosting game servers, I picked the cheapest VPS I could find and wondered why my community complained about rubber-banding and desync. The problem was not the CPU or the RAM. It was geography. … Read more
Nothing kills a multiplayer session faster than lag. If you are running your own game server, you already know the frustration of watching players rubber-band across the map or lose firefights because their shots register a split second too late. Learning how to reduce latency for players on a self-hosted game server can mean the … Read more
So you set up a game server, your friends on the same network can hop in without a problem, but anyone connecting from outside your home just gets a timeout. If that sounds familiar, you are dealing with one of the most common multiplayer server headaches out there. Local connections work because traffic never leaves … Read more
Hosting a game server that only runs on Windows used to mean keeping a loud, power-hungry PC running in your living room 24/7. I did that for two years running a Minecraft server for friends, and my electricity bill was not happy about it. A Windows VPS solves that problem by giving you a virtual … Read more
Building a budget home server for hosting game servers lets you control your own multiplayer world without paying monthly fees. I built my first dedicated server using a refurbished Dell OptiPlex, and it still runs a 12-player Minecraft world today. This guide walks you through every step our team has tested, from picking components to … Read more
I have been self-hosting game servers from my garage rack for the better part of six years, and the single biggest improvement came when I switched from raw installations to a Docker game server setup. Once I wrapped each game in its own container, my weekend maintenance went from hours to minutes. If you have … Read more
If you want to run multiple game servers on one VPS, the good news is it’s absolutely possible. The bad news is that port conflicts will kill your setup the moment two servers try to grab the same default port. I’ve been running game servers on rented VPS boxes since , and the same question … Read more
If you are running a private Lineage 2 server and your NPCs refuse to spawn or throw blank HTML windows when players click them, you are dealing with two of the most common L2J administration headaches. I have spent years managing L2J servers, and I can tell you that almost every spawn or dialog issue … Read more