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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Once Human 3.0.5 Update Adds Storage Search, Dye Overhaul, and Portable Crafting
The Once Human 3.0.5 update lands September 2 with a storage search feature, a reworked fashion dye system, and portable crafting for…
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Dune: Awakening Confirms Cross-Play, Polar Cap Update, and Filmic Archive DLC Release Date
Funcom’s Gamescom roundup confirms cross-play is coming, a free Polar Cap survival expansion lands later this year, and the Filmic Archive DLC…
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Planet Crafter Skeo update adds a whole new moon to terraform
The free Skeo update is live, and it’s not just a new moon. Miju Games rebalanced farms, added new machines, and made…
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Soulmask Beyond Gravity update adds the Burning Highlands, new masks, and new bosses
The Beyond Gravity update for Soulmask drops a whole new volcanic region, three new masks, and a pile of new bosses. I’m…
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Terraria 1.4.5.7 Is Out, Crossplay Is Next in 1.4.6
Terraria 1.4.5.7 is live on PC, and the team says crossplay is the focus for 1.4.6. I’m both excited and a little…
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The Long Dark’s Survival Mode Becomes the Main Focus After Episode Five
Hinterland’s August dev diary confirms Survival Mode is now the core focus for The Long Dark, with free updates, two mystery DLCs,…
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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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Once Human 3.0.5 Update Adds Storage Search, Dye Overhaul, and Portable Crafting