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Page 19 of 24 of the KEYDAL blog: guides on hosting, domains, servers, e-commerce and software.

Game Servers

Minecraft Plugin Guide: Installation, Configuration and Recommendations

Plugin installation, file structure, the core plugins (LuckPerms, EssentialsX, WorldEdit, WorldGuard, Vault, CoreProtect), compatibility and security.

September 5, 2026 · 30 min read
Troubleshooting

Minecraft Lag Problems | Server, Client and Network Lag

A complete guide to Minecraft lag problems: telling server, client and network lag apart, measuring TPS, diagnosing ping and fixing each type one by o

September 5, 2026 · 15 min read
Game Servers

Minecraft Anti-Cheat System: Setup and Configuration Guide

NoCheatPlus, Vulcan and Grim compared, plus installation, false positive tuning and ban system integration for your Minecraft server anti-cheat setup.

September 5, 2026 · 25 min read
SEO

The Meta Robots Tag: noindex, nofollow and Other Directives

What do noindex, nofollow and noarchive do in the meta robots tag, how does it differ from robots.txt and how is X-Robots-Tag used?

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Software

What Is Markdown and How Do You Use It? A Beginner's Guide

A practical beginner's guide covering what Markdown is, its core syntax, how GitHub Flavored Markdown differs, and the mistakes beginners make most of

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Press Law

Is Displaying Identity and Contact Information on a Website Mandatory in Turkey?

Two sources apply: the Article 3 information duty in Law No. 5651 and the Article 4 imprint in Press Law No. 5187.

September 5, 2026 · 12 min read
Game Servers

LuckPerms Permissions Management: The Complete Guide

Installation, commands, groups, inheritance, prefix/suffix, web editor, contexts, weight, storage and verbose - the whole LuckPerms wiki in one guide.

September 5, 2026 · 45 min read
Software

What Is Lorem Ipsum and Where Does It Come From? Using Placeholder Text in Design

A guide to the origins of Lorem Ipsum placeholder text going back to Cicero, why designers prefer it, and the risks you need to watch out for.

September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Hosting

What Is umask in Linux? How Default File Permissions Are Decided

umask decides which permissions new files and directories get by default on Linux. The calculation logic.

September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Hosting

Linux File Permissions: A Guide to chmod, rwx and Octal Notation

Learn chmod, rwx and octal notation in Linux file permissions with examples; review setuid, setgid, sticky bit.

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Game Servers

LimboAuth: Setting Up a Minecraft Auth System on Velocity Proxy - The Complete Guide

What LimboAuth is, how to install and configure it: the auth plugin for Velocity proxy, database, captcha, 2FA.

September 5, 2026 · 38 min read
Press Law

Is a Website Liable for Reader Comments in Turkey?

Article 5 of Turkey's Internet Law No. 5651 imposes no duty to monitor on hosting providers. Reader comments and your own reporting follow different r

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
Troubleshooting

Minecraft Lag Spike Fix | Periodic Freezing and GC Problem

Are periodic lag spikes hitting your Minecraft server? A fix guide covering Garbage Collection pauses, autosave and JVM flag optimization on Paper ser

September 5, 2026 · 8 min read
Press Law

How Should an Advertorial Be Labelled in Turkey?

Labelling sponsored news in Turkey: Law No. 6502 Article 61 and Regulation Article 6, why no font-size rule exists online, and what to do in practice.

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
SEO

Does Keyword Density Still Matter? A Content Analysis Guide

Does keyword density still matter for SEO? A content analysis guide explaining semantic search, readability and natural repetition balance with exampl

September 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Press Law

Journalist Severance and Notice Pay in Turkey: How to Calculate

How severance pay and pay in lieu of notice are calculated for journalists in Turkey under Article 6 of Press Labour Act No. 5953, with worked example

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
Press Law

Calculating Journalist Overtime Pay in Turkey (Act No. 5953)

Overtime pay for journalists under Turkey's Press Labour Act No. 5953: the 50% premium, double pay after midnight, the 3-hour cap and the fivefold fin

September 5, 2026 · 11 min read
Press Law

Journalist Employment Contract Template (Turkey, Act No. 5953)

Journalist employment contract template under Turkey's Press Labour Act No. 5953: mandatory clauses, seniority, notice periods, overtime.

September 5, 2026 · 12 min read
Press Law

Is Journalism Exempt from Turkey's KVKK?

The word journalism never appears in Article 28 of Turkey's KVKK. The exemption rests on freedom of expression.

September 5, 2026 · 14 min read
Troubleshooting

Minecraft Java Version Error: UnsupportedClassVersionError Fix

Getting a Java version error on your Minecraft server? Fix UnsupportedClassVersionError and install the correct Java version for your MC build.

September 5, 2026 · 7 min read
Game Servers

Is Copying a Minecraft Plugin Pack Legal? The Legal and Ethical Framework

Is copying, cracking or reverse engineering a Minecraft plugin pack legal? The Minecraft EULA, Law No. 5846 (FSEK), licence types and what copies cost

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
Press Law

Is Cookie Consent Mandatory in Turkey?

The word cookie never appears in Turkey's KVKK or its regulations. The cookie regime is built from the Article 3 definition.

September 5, 2026 · 12 min read
Press Law

Is Comment Moderation Mandatory in Turkey?

Article 5 of Internet Law No. 5651 imposes no pre-moderation duty on hosting providers. We separate what is mandatory from operational advice.

September 5, 2026 · 12 min read
Software

What Is an IBAN? How the Check Digits Are Calculated

The structure of an IBAN and how its check digits are calculated with the ISO 7064 MOD 97-10 algorithm.

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Software

What Is an HTML Entity? Displaying Special Characters Safely

How do you safely display characters that carry special meaning in HTML?

September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Game Servers

How to Run a Spark Analysis: TPS, MSPT and Finding the Source of Lag (2026)

How do you read a spark profiler report? The /spark profiler start-stop commands, TPS/MSPT interpretation, plugin CPU breakdown and lag source detecti

September 5, 2026 · 16 min read
SEO

How to Plan a Digital Ad Budget: Daily Spend and CPC/CPM Maths

A practical guide to turning a total ad budget into daily spend, estimating clicks and impressions with CPC/CPM, and understanding how budget pacing w

September 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Game Servers

How to Install a Minecraft Plugin Pack: The A-to-Z Setup Guide

How do you install a Minecraft plugin pack? Spigot, Paper and Bukkit differences, the plugins folder, dependencies, first config settings.

September 5, 2026 · 18 min read
Press Law

How to Credit Sources in News Reporting in Turkey

The source elements enumerated in FSEK Article 36(3), plus copy-and-paste source-line templates for news quotes, opinion columns.

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
Game Servers

How to Add a Plugin Pack on Aternos (2026 Up-to-Date Guide)

How to upload a plugin pack to your Aternos server: file manager, unzipping, upload limits, RAM/TPS caps, Aternos limits and when to move to a VPS.

September 5, 2026 · 14 min read
Software

How Is the Reading Time of an Article Calculated?

How is the reading time of a text calculated? We cover the word-count method, what a good text statistics tool should offer.

September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Press Law

How Much Text May Be Used in a News Quotation in Turkey?

Turkey's FSEK sets no word or percentage limit for quotation. The qualitative tests it does impose: justified proportion.

September 5, 2026 · 12 min read
Press Law

Is a News Website a Hosting Provider or a Content Provider in Turkey?

Turkey's Internet Law No. 5651 defines capacities, not outlets: a news site is a content provider for its own copy and a hosting provider for reader c

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
SEO

Ad Copy Character Limits on Google Ads, Meta Ads and X

Official character limits for Google Ads, Meta, X and LinkedIn ad fields: which ones are hard caps and which are only the recommended length before tr

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Hosting

What Is .gitignore and How Do You Use It Correctly?

What the .gitignore file does, how its pattern syntax works, and how to remove files that are already tracked from a repository with git rm --cached.

September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Press Law

What to Do If the Whole Site Is Blocked

On what two conditions can a whole site be blocked under Law No. 5651? The texts of Articles 8(17) and 8/A(3).

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
Press Law

How Many Days Does a Freedom of Information Request Take in Turkey?

Under Right to Information Act No. 4982 the response time is 15 business days, exceptionally 30. Start of time, extension, fee interruption.

September 5, 2026 · 13 min read
Press Law

Does Requesting a Document from a Public Institution Cost Money in Turkey?

Access fees must be proportionate to cost and the first ten pages, postage included, are free. How a fee notice interrupts time, plus cost-cutting tac

September 5, 2026 · 12 min read
Press Law

Which Information Falls Outside the Right to Information in Turkey?

All the exemptions in Articles 15-28 of Right to Information Act No. 4982, the partial access rule, and what each one means in practice for a journali

September 5, 2026 · 14 min read
Troubleshooting

Minecraft Server Lag Fixing Guide | TPS and Performance

A Minecraft server lag fixing guide: view-distance, Aikar flags, moving to Paper, entity limits, Chunky pre-gen and root cause analysis with Spark pro

September 5, 2026 · 16 min read
Troubleshooting

Fixing Minecraft Lag Spikes | GC Pause and Sudden Freezes

Fixing Minecraft lag spikes: stop-the-world GC pauses, chunk save spikes, backup IO, Aikar flags and diagnosing sudden freezes with the Spark profiler

September 5, 2026 · 16 min read
SEO

What Is a Favicon and Which Sizes Do You Need? Complete Guide

What is a favicon, which size is used where from 16×16 to 512×512, and how are apple-touch-icon and the PWA manifest.json linked? A short, practical g

September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Troubleshooting

Minecraft Server Won't Start: EULA Not Accepted

Is your Minecraft server failing to start with an EULA error? A step-by-step guide to editing eula.txt, setting eula=true and getting the server runni

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Game Servers

EssentialsX Setup & Configuration: The Complete Guide

EssentialsX installation, detailed config.yml settings, home/warp/spawn, TPA, economy, chat format, kits.

September 5, 2026 · 35 min read
Hosting

What Is a .env File? Best Practices for Environment Variables

A guide to what .env files are for, the KEY=VALUE syntax, loading them with dotenv, and the .gitignore and .env.example practices around them.

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Troubleshooting

Minecraft Entity Overload Crash: Mob Limit Settings

Is your Minecraft server crashing from too many entities? A practical guide to mob farm limits, ClearLagg cleanup and entity-activation-range optimiza

September 5, 2026 · 9 min read
Press Law

Can an Instagram Post Be Embedded in a News Story in Turkey?

The technical and legal difference between embedding and copying under Turkish law: FSEK Articles 22 and 25, archive risk and a practical newsroom fix

September 5, 2026 · 12 min read
SEO

Email Subject Line Optimization: Tips to Raise Open Rates

Where do Gmail and Outlook cut off an email subject line, how should preheader text be used and what are the emoji risks?

September 5, 2026 · 5 min read