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DayZ
Everything on this site about DayZ – the Arma 2 mod we ran for ten years, and the standalone server builds, configs and measured numbers that came after it.
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DayZ Badlands Expansion Launches With Nasdara Map and Full Wipe
DayZ Badlands is out with the new 267 km² Nasdara map, a 10% launch discount, and Update 1.30 bringing motorbikes, new survival threats, and a full…
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Log Retention I Never Set Deleted 23 Game Server Logs in One Command
My DayZ server sat switched off for two months. The first command I ran when I came back deleted every LinuxGSM log it had ever written,…
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Linux Server Management for a Box Left Off Two Months: 24 Security Updates in 11 Seconds
I switched my DayZ server box back on after two months. 24 security updates were waiting on a release that is now oldstable, and applying them…
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A Server Backup Job Reported Finished Eight Times With the Backup Disk Missing
The weekly backup on the host that runs my DayZ server printed Finished Backup eight times on a night the backup share was not mounted. The…
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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 got nothing for the next half hour, while…
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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 that failed to load and why. Four days…
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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 95% of its disk, two more above 91%,…
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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 Warning. Exactly one line marked the moment the…
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Choosing Virtualization Software for a Game Server: 20 Containers, One VM
The game server runs in an unprivileged container rather than a virtual machine. It boots in six seconds, backs up live, and a 60 GB disk…
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A Disaster Recovery Plan Is Worth Nothing Until You Time the Restore
I restored a running game server from its archive onto a fresh container, timed every stage, and checked byte for byte that what came back was…