Port forwarding, and why it sometimes cannot work
Most guides assume the rule will work once you get it right. For a lot of home connections it cannot, and no amount of fiddling will change that.
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Notes on running game servers, and on what it costs when somebody else runs them for you.
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What renting a game server actually costs
We read the pricing pages of thirteen hosting providers. The advertised number is not the one you pay, and the gap between them is the whole story.
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Why your Minecraft server says offline when you can join it
A server you can reach from your own machine can still be unreachable from the internet. Here is how to tell which side the problem is on.
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