Game & server hosting guides
Honest comparisons, server explainers and hosting guides — written by the team behind 10,000+ servers.
How Much RAM Does a Palworld Server Need? 8, 16 or 32 GB
From 4 to 32 players: how much RAM your Palworld server actually needs, and why buying extra memory does nothing about the memory leak.
5 Aug 2026
WorldEdit and WorldGuard: Build and Protect on Your Server
WorldEdit edits thousands of blocks at once, WorldGuard enforces rules inside a region: how to use them together to protect a spawn without stalling your server.
4 Aug 2026
ViaVersion: Let Players Join on Different Minecraft Versions
ViaVersion lets newer clients onto an older server, ViaBackwards does the reverse. How protocol translation works, and where it runs out of road.
4 Aug 2026
Velocity vs BungeeCord: Building a Minecraft Server Network
A proxy lets players hop between lobby, survival and minigames without reconnecting. Velocity or BungeeCord, and how to lock your backend servers down safely.
4 Aug 2026
Hosting a Vault Hunters 3rd Edition Server: RAM and Setup
How the Vault Hunters 3rd Edition vault loop loads your server, what it does to world size and backups, and how much RAM you actually need.
4 Aug 2026
Migrating from vanilla to Paper without breaking your world
Your world keeps working, because Paper reads the same format as vanilla. What does change: the config files, redstone timings and mob spawning.
4 Aug 2026
TPS, MSPT and lag: what the numbers really mean
20 TPS is the ceiling and 50 ms per tick is the limit: how to read the numbers and tell whether lag comes from the server, your PC or the network.
4 Aug 2026
spark: find out where the lag on your Minecraft server comes from
spark measures which plugin, mod or chunk is eating your tick time, so you never have to guess where the lag on your Minecraft server comes from.
4 Aug 2026
Setting up a Skyblock server: modpack or plugin?
Skyblock saves disk space but hammers your CPU: how to choose between a mod skyblock on 10 to 16 GB of RAM and a plugin skyblock on Paper.
4 Aug 2026
server.properties explained: the settings that really matter
Which server.properties lines actually matter, what a sensible value looks like, and why view-distance and simulation-distance decide your TPS.
4 Aug 2026
Setting up an RLCraft server: hardcore survival, no surprises
RLCraft has 27+ million downloads and still runs on Forge and Minecraft 1.12.2. What that means for your Java runtime, RAM, chunk loading and server admin.
4 Aug 2026
Setting up a Prominence II: Hasturian Era server with friends
What a Prominence II: Hasturian Era server needs, how quest progress works in multiplayer and where the pack really differs from DawnCraft.
4 Aug 2026