Engineering
Find why a Linux game server crashed
Locate why your Linux game server crashed: exit codes 137, 139, and 143, kernel dmesg OOM Killer audits, and coredumpctl stack traces.
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The craft of running game servers
Setup guides, diagnostics and practical decisions for running games on your own VPS.
Engineering
Test a game-server backup before you need to restore it
Verify a game server backup through isolated recovery: complete data, a player join and persistence after a restart.
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How to check a game server's UDP port without a false diagnosis
Check a game server UDP port using its socket, an external client and packet capture without treating silence as a closed port.
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CGNAT and game servers: why port forwarding still fails
Distinguish CGNAT from double NAT and check your public IPv4 before changing a game server’s port-forwarding rules.
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