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Devlogs, infrastructure news, DDoS war stories, and everything happening behind the scenes at HyperVeil.
Obsidian Servers is rebranding to HyperVeil. Same team, better infrastructure, and a name that actually means something.
Read more →No WordPress, no templates. Hand-written HTML and CSS served from a Node.js egg inside Pterodactyl, proxied through Nginx on our own hardware.
Read more →New AMD EPYC nodes, full NVMe storage, and 25GbE uplinks. A complete breakdown of what went into the rack this quarter.
Read more →A multi-vector attack hit us in late January — SYN flood, HTTP request flood, and UDP simultaneously. Zero downtime.
Read more →A technical look at our BGP-steered scrubbing infrastructure and why it's a meaningful upgrade over null routing.
Read more →More upstream bandwidth, better peering with UK and EU networks, and what it means for latency on your server.
Read more →Autosave lag spikes were our number one support complaint. Switching storage fixed almost all of them.
Read more →In November 2025 we took our biggest DDoS hit to date — ~178 Gbps. Zero downtime. A full technical breakdown.
Read more →Synthetic checks, metrics collection, network anomaly detection, and the on-call rotation that ties it all together.
Read more →TPS, MSPT, entity counts, hopper chains — a breakdown of where lag actually comes from and how to diagnose it.
Read more →The open-source panel that powers our game server infrastructure — and why we chose it over the alternatives.
Read more →Before we had real mitigation. What we learned from our first DDoS attack and how it shaped every decision since.
Read more →The real answer depends on player count, mods, and world size — not whatever a random forum post told you.
Read more →How our backup system works, what it protects against, and why you should keep a copy off our infrastructure too.
Read more →From a single dedicated box to a proper hosting operation. The unglamorous origin story of what became HyperVeil.
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