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Explore articles by Elena on the Pine Hosting blog featuring insights, tutorials, and hosting advice to help users get more from their servers.
Explore articles by Elena on the Pine Hosting blog featuring insights, tutorials, and hosting advice to help users get more from their servers.
Soulmask Server Setup: A Beginner’s Guide To Hosting A Private Server For Friends
If you want to enjoy Soulmask with your own group, a private server is one of the best ways to play. Public servers can be fun, but they are not always ideal for friends who want a stable world, shared progression, and more control over how the game is played.
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Soulmask
Soulmask Self-Hosting Vs Dedicated Hosting: Which Should You Choose?
Soulmask is a survival game built around exploration, tribe management, base building, crafting, combat, and long-term progression. While public servers are an option, they are not always the best choice if you just want to play with a small group of friends. If you want your own private Soulmask server,
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Soulmask
How To Add Proximity Chat To A Minecraft Server
Proximity chat is one of the easiest ways to make a Minecraft SMP server feel more alive. Instead of every player sitting in one Discord call, players can talk naturally with people near them in-game. Walk into a base, meet someone at spawn, explore a cave, or join a community
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Minecraft
S&box Officially Launches On Steam: What It Means For Players, Creators, And Servers
After years of development, testing, and speculation, S&box has officially launched on Steam. For long-time fans of Facepunch, sandbox games, and community-made multiplayer experiences, this is a major moment. S&box has been talked about for years as the spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, and now
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S&box
Minecraft Modded Server Crashing: How To Fix It
Running a modded Minecraft server is very different from running a normal vanilla world. A vanilla Minecraft server mainly has to handle players, chunks, mobs, redstone, and world saves. A modded server has to do all of that while also loading custom blocks, new dimensions, extra mobs, automation systems, storage
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Minecraft
How To Edit Your Rust Server Settings: Self-Hosting vs Dedicated Rust Server Hosting
Editing your Rust server settings lets you control how your server appears, how players join, and how basic gameplay rules behave. You can change things like your server name, description, header image, player limit, PvE mode, server tags, AI behavior, decay settings, and more. In this guide, we will compare
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Rust
Finding The Best S&box Hosting: Features You Should Compare
S&box is one of the most exciting new sandbox platforms for players, creators, and multiplayer communities. Built by Facepunch, the studio behind Rust and Garry’s Mod, S&box gives users the tools to create, share, and play custom experiences instead of being locked into one fixed
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S&box
S&box Hardware Requirements For Hosting A Multiplayer Server
S&box is built for community-made games, custom content, and multiplayer experiences, which means server requirements can change depending on what you want to host. A small private server for friends will not need the same resources as a public server running custom game modes, addons, physics-heavy gameplay, or
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S&box
Self-Hosting Vs Dedicated FiveM Server Hosting: Which Is Better For Your GTA RP Server?
FiveM lets you turn GTA V into a custom multiplayer experience with roleplay, custom vehicles, scripts, jobs, maps, economies, and full community-driven servers. But before launching a FiveM server, you need to decide where it will run. You can either self-host it on your own PC or use dedicated FiveM
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FiveM
Rust Server Not Showing In Server List? Here’s How To Fix It
Connecting to a Rust server is usually simple once everything is set up properly, but many server owners run into the same issue right away: the server is online, yet it does not appear in the browser. In many cases, the server is not actually broken. The problem is often
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Rust
Rust Plugin Troubleshooting: How To Identify And Fix Common Plugin Issues
Running plugins is one of the best ways to customize a Rust server, but when something breaks, the cause is usually more practical than most owners expect. A plugin may fail to compile, load without creating its config, stop working after a Rust update, or seem fine at first while
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Rust
How To Pre-Generate A Minecraft World To Eliminate Lag Spikes
If your Minecraft server feels smooth until players start flying across the map or spreading out in different directions, chunk generation is usually part of the problem. Generating new terrain in real time puts a heavy load on the server, and that often shows up as lag spikes, stuttering, or
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Minecraft
How To Run Cross-Platform Game Servers Without Compatibility Issues, Lag, Or Player Sync Problems
Running a cross-platform multiplayer server is harder than running a standard multiplayer server. Different platforms can receive updates at different times, support different features, and handle networking differently. If the server is not set up carefully, that can lead to version conflicts, plugin problems, lag, and player desync. The most
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News
What Is S&box? Facepunch’s New Platform, Launch, And Server Hosting
S&box is set for its full Steam release on April 28, 2026, and it is already drawing attention from players, creators, and anyone interested in S&box server hosting. Built by Facepunch, the creator of Rust and Garry's Mod, S&box is not just
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News S&box
Soulmask 1.0 Update And Shifting Sands DLC: Full Patch Notes Breakdown
Soulmask’s 1.0 update is a major release that reshapes the game with new modes, tribe systems, mask upgrades, building improvements, and the large Shifting Sands DLC. For anyone running a Soulmask server, this update adds a lot more depth to progression, combat, and base management. Shifting Sands launched
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Soulmask