https://gamedash.io/blog The #1 game server control panel - GameDash empowers hosts and communities to spend less time and money on managing their infrastructure and game servers, allowing them to focus on offering their customers and players a great experience. en-us Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-rust-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-rust-server Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides A Rust server needs more room than a fresh install suggests, four ports rather than one, and a remote console that stopped working the way most guides still describe. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-minecraft-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-minecraft-server Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Choose your server software before you think about hardware. Swapping from vanilla to Paper does more for performance than doubling your memory. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-valheim-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-valheim-server Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Valheim’s memory use is driven by how much your players have built, not how many of them there are. A long-running world will outgrow a server that was comfortable in week one. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-an-ark-survival-ascended-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-an-ark-survival-ascended-server Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Budget considerably more of everything than you expect. Most first attempts fail because the machine was sized like a normal game server. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-project-zomboid-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-project-zomboid-server Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Zomboid’s default memory allocation is small and it is set in a launch script, not in the game settings. If your server stutters after a few hours, this is almost certainly why. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-dayz-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-dayz-server Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides DayZ’s difficulty is not the server — it is the loot economy. The files that control what spawns, where, and how often are where nearly all of your configuration time will go. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-counter-strike-2-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-counter-strike-2-server Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides You need a Game Server Login Token from Steam before your server will be publicly visible. It is free, takes minutes, and is the step that stops most first attempts. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-7-days-to-die-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-7-days-to-die-server Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides The heaviest moment is world generation, not gameplay. A machine that handles a full server can still fail on first boot while generating a large random map. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-conan-exiles-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-conan-exiles-server Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Conan’s save is a database, and it grows continuously. Long-running servers need it looked after, or performance degrades in a way no amount of hardware fixes. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-satisfactory-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-satisfactory-server Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Your factory is the system requirement. Satisfactory’s load has almost nothing to do with player count and everything to do with how many machines are running. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-an-enshrouded-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-an-enshrouded-server Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Enshrouded is memory-hungry for the number of players it supports. The world is the load, not the people in it. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-v-rising-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-v-rising-server Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides V Rising splits its configuration across two separate files. Editing the wrong one is the most common reason a setting appears to do nothing. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-garrys-mod-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-garrys-mod-server Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Most Garry’s Mod problems are missing content, not broken servers. Those checkerboard textures mean your players are missing game files the addon expects them to own. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-terraria-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-terraria-server Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Decide first whether you want mods. Vanilla Terraria and tModLoader are different server applications, and switching later means starting the setup again. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-factorio-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-factorio-server Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Factorio is exceptionally light to host and exceptionally strict about mods. Every player must have exactly the same mods at exactly the same versions. https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-dont-starve-together-server https://gamedash.io/blog/how-to-host-a-dont-starve-together-server Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides A Don’t Starve Together world is normally two servers, not one. The surface and the caves run as separate processes, and missing this is why so many first attempts have no caves. https://gamedash.io/blog/first-sdk-module https://gamedash.io/blog/first-sdk-module Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering GameDash supports any application through its SDK. Here is how a module fits together — and how to bend the panel to your will. https://gamedash.io/blog/migrate-in-minutes https://gamedash.io/blog/migrate-in-minutes Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Switching panels is usually a weekend of downtime and angry tickets. GameDash is built to coexist with what you already run — in most cases without moving a single file. https://gamedash.io/blog/introducing-gamedash https://gamedash.io/blog/introducing-gamedash Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product The game server control panel we always wished existed — self-hosted, automated, and built to scale from a single node to an entire fleet. https://gamedash.io/blog/monitoring-your-fleet https://gamedash.io/blog/monitoring-your-fleet Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product Event-based monitoring, filesystem alerts and incident logging — how GameDash tells you something is wrong before your players do.