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Velocity vs BungeeCord: which proxy should you use?
If you are standing up a Minecraft network in 2026 and wondering which proxy to put in front of it, the short answer is
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Thoughts, stories and ideas.
Setup guides, performance deep-dives, game launches and everything you need to run a better server.
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Guide
How to grow a Minecraft server and get players
Getting players onto a Minecraft server is a different skill from running one well, and most owners are better at the se
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Guide
Fixing 'Can't keep up! Is the server overloaded?'
If your server console is printing "Can't keep up! Is the server overloaded? Running Xms or Y ticks behind"
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Guide
How to make a Minecraft server in 2026
Making your own Minecraft server is the difference between playing on someone else's rules and running a world that
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Buying Guide
Protecting the tick: core isolation, kernel latency and the numbers
How we give a game server its own cores, what we changed in the kernel, and the scheduler latency we measured across three kernels, limits included.
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Guide
Running a Create mod server
How to host a Create mod server: picking version and loader, config caps for contraptions and trains, SMP rules, spark profiling and backups.
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Guide
World management: pre-generation, borders and resource worlds
How pre-generation, world borders, a resource world and random teleport keep fresh terrain from taxing your Minecraft server and stealing the tick.
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Guide
What actually causes Minecraft server lag: TPS and MSPT explained
The 50ms tick budget, what eats it, and how to tell apart the three different problems people all call lag, so you can measure and fix the right one.
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Comparison
Vanilla vs Paper vs Purpur: which to run
A walk through the Minecraft server fork family, from Vanilla to Paper and Purpur, what each one adds over the last, and a plain pick this if for each.
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Buying Guide
How to spot overselling in game hosting
What overselling actually is, the signs that give an oversold game host away, and the questions to ask before you pay, so you are a harder buyer to fool.
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Guide
Securing a public SMP
The practical checklist for running a public Minecraft SMP safely, from whitelist and online-mode to firewalling backends, DDoS and rate-limiting.
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Guide
Scaling to a network with Velocity
When one server is not enough, how a Velocity proxy ties several Minecraft servers into one address, and the security rule you must not skip.