Having a problem with your minecraft server? This will take you through some of the steps I take when I have a problem with my server, also I will describe some of the problems I’ve had and how I fixed them!
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\nFirst problem everyone faces is LAG, nothing more annoying than people yelling LAG LAG LAG, like come on telling me sure, but screaming it? There are many reasons that lag happens, lag can happen because someone\u2019s computer is just a bad computer and doesn\u2019t have the power to run minecraft smoothly (this is a client side issue, that doesn\u2019t have anything to do with your server) another one that also isn\u2019t your fault is Internet lag this is if the players don\u2019t have enough internet to connect smoothly, on the other hand the server must have enough internet to run or else everyone will lag!<\/p>\n
A good way to check for client or server side lag is just to get a few people on from different areas and see if everyone is lagging or just 1 or 2, although where you are located and where they are does make a difference on ping! Although sometimes you might thing its just one player that\u2019s lagging when the other people just don\u2019t say anything about it! Make sure to ask others if they are lagging!<\/p>\n
Having a bit of server side lag? There are many plugins out there to help, get a plugin to monitor TPS (Ticks Per Second) should be at 20.0 with no lag and 15.0 you will get some but I don\u2019t like having lower then 18….. also get something to monitor your ram usage, I have a 8 GB server that I rent, 4-5 GB are free, Constantly running 20.0 TPS this is what you would think would be perfect, but people still complain about lag, sometimes server doesn\u2019t lag but a plugin does. So if a plugin makes chat different it still has to go through the plugin…. causing lag!<\/p>\n