The Lab
Servers built, broken and measured. Real numbers off the bench.
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Server Uptime Monitoring Said Up 24 Seconds In. It Was Not Up 30 Minutes Later.
The process was alive at 8 seconds and the port was bound at 24. A real player query…
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Server Monitoring Tools Saw Nothing. The .RPT File Named All 43 of Them.
A crash log said ‘Reason: Unknown’ in 89 bytes. The real log, three directories away, listed 43 vehicles…
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Infrastructure Monitoring Found Three Problems on a Host Nobody Thought Was Sick
I only ran a backup. The backup printed two warnings, and following them up found a guest at…
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Syslog Monitoring Tools Would Have Paged Me 97,819 Times for Nothing
One game server with nobody playing on it produced 131,546 log lines. 97,819 of them contain the word…
The Signal
What the survival genre is doing this week, and what it means.
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Farthest Frontier v1.2 Update Confirmed With Trading Post Overhaul
Crate Entertainment finally breaks the silence: v1.2 is nearly ready with a trading overhaul, v1.3 is coming early next year, and an…
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ARK: Survival Ascended September 30 Update Brings UE5.8, Cerberax, Gargantar
The September 30 update for ARK: Survival Ascended packs a major engine upgrade, two new creatures, and a Therizinosaurus TLC. Here’s my…
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Subnautica 2 Buddy System update adds proximity chat, revives, and trading
The Buddy System update for Subnautica 2 finally adds proximity chat, player revives, and trading. Community feedback shaped a lot of this,…
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Terraria 1.4.5.7 update drops with gem staff rework and crossplay tease
Re-Logic just pushed Terraria 1.4.5.7 to PC, and it’s a big one: dozens of new items, a complete gem staff rework, and…
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Valheim 1.0 Release Confirmed for September with New Trailer at Gamescom
Iron Gate confirms Valheim 1.0 launches in September, with a new trailer premiering at Gamescom. The Early Access journey is finally ending.
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Subnautica 2 Buddy System Update Drops Tomorrow with Revives and Trading
The Buddy System update for Subnautica 2 arrives August 19th, adding proximity chat, player trading, revives, and a tracking tag. I’m already…
The Forum
Online since 2013 and never taken down. Thirteen years of it is still there to read.
Recent discussion
On this day
- 2015fifty people on tonight??Tinman
- 2015came back and the server is actually alivesniper
- 2014so the vehicles are just gonechad
- 2014where did all the cars goSaltyPete
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Server Uptime Monitoring Said Up 24 Seconds In. It Was Not Up 30 Minutes Later.
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Server Monitoring Tools Saw Nothing. The .RPT File Named All 43 of Them.
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Infrastructure Monitoring Found Three Problems on a Host Nobody Thought Was Sick
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Syslog Monitoring Tools Would Have Paged Me 97,819 Times for Nothing
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Choosing Virtualization Software for a Game Server: 20 Containers, One VM
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A Disaster Recovery Plan Is Worth Nothing Until You Time the Restore