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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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Databases12 min read
Database backups and restores: dumps that come back
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Minecraft13 min read
Minecraft economy: EssentialsX, Vault, shops and sinks
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Minecraft13 min read
Minecraft web maps: Dynmap, BlueMap and squaremap
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Networking11 min read
SRV records for Minecraft: the fields, and how to test them
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Minecraft13 min read
Minecraft SMP launch checklist: everything before day one
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Guides13 min read
DayZ types.xml and the loot economy: editing it safely
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Networking13 min read
What a reverse proxy does: TLS, hostnames and forwarded IPs
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