Pterodactyl Is The Perfect Platform For Hosting All of Your Game Servers [Minecraft, Rust, CS GO]

[@CornelisTerblanche]

I was just starting to research this and this is exactly what I was hoping to find. Very nice!

[@Jims-Garage]

@@CornelisTerblanche you're welcome

[@NickyNiclas]

Thanks for showing this off! I was unaware, very cool! What has always been stopping me from self hosting game servers however is that to my knowledge it's hard to do without exposing the public IP, unless there is some new tech that makes it easier? But at least Cloudflare can't proxy srv records as far as I know. I also tried MC server via a cloudflared tunnel but that seems straight up blocked haha 😅

[@Jims-Garage]

You could create a wireguard or tailscale network - I have videos on both.

[@NickyNiclas]

@@Jims-Garage Yeah that would work but I'd much prefer it if the remote users didn't have to install anything extra. Routing via a VPS might be what I end up doing, if it doesn't add too much latency.

[@WayneMcCormick]

@@NickyNiclasI know you don’t want to have your guests install anything, but I did and we game through Twingate.

[@Arian-gm4rx]

@@Jims-Garage Wouldn't dynamic DNS also solve the issue without the need for clients installing additional software?

[@NickyNiclas]

@@WayneMcCormick That would be great if I set it up to play with friends but if I'm hosting it for a bigger online community I want to minimize the amount of support I have to give, so it has to be as easy as possible. Currently investigating and I'm finding quite a few solutions I wasn't aware of, like ngrok.

[@zkillerqc3050]

can you make a version for use pterodactyl in proxmox

[@Jims-Garage]

@@zkillerqc3050 this is all done in Proxmox

[@matt95420]

This looks like an awesome tool, I think I come across it before but could never find it because of the name, its hard to spell and a bunch of different things about ancient creatures come up. Its impossible to find unless you know the site URL. If they changed the name it probably would be more popular.

[@praetorxyn]

I really need to setup traefik, I've just been lazy for a few months so I'm still on swag.

[@Deffcolony]

nice tutorial, hope this will help many users :) i hope my guide helped you getting it setup quickly of course networks are personal preference in terms of configuring

[@Jims-Garage]

Yes, it was useful. Much appreciated.

[@NFvidoJagg2]

I've run this in the past for modded minecraft. but kept running into OOM-killer issues trying to balance memory allocation. I also found the wing server hammered the CPU quight a bit, even when the MC server was off.

[@imtiazali1628]

Hi Jim how can we download this client for Minecraft I setup the same but I did not find any option to add server in launcher

[@Jims-Garage]

This is the default minecraft java game client. I downloaded from Xbox Live (think it's baked into Windows).

[@michaelolsberg2458]

From my experience, Pelican was so much smoother and easier to set-up

[@Jims-Garage]

I struggled last night to get it working with Traefik, trying again this evening. Does seem simpler in premise.

[@romayojr]

super cool. i'd spin up a minecraft server for my 9 year old but he's obsessed with playing fortnite atm so it would just be a waste of resources 😂

[@nocillis]

That's very cool but it is no way an easy and friendly set up process for a very beginner homelabber. Before 3min into the vid im like "Reverse Proxy? I give up! I'm just gonna watch. too complicated for me."

[@Jims-Garage]

Understood. I will be doing more basic videos in the future just using Docker.

[@nocillis]

@@Jims-Garage What I mean is it was overwhelming for me but, most of your viewers would fully understand what's going on. But I totally enjoyed the video either way. I just wish i could be extremely well skilled like yourself and have the resources to have such an awesome set up. So please don't change your approach for me. I can always search the interwebs for an answer if I don't know it.

[@DeadlyDragon_]

pterodactyl is ok, I prefer AMP myself

[@Jims-Garage]

Appreciated, I have that on the list to check out.

[@DeadlyDragon_]

@@Jims-Garage Full disclosure I am one of the moderators from the AMP discord so I may be a bit biased, but as a network engineer it has a solid architecture behind it, and a thriving community.

[@Jims-Garage]

@DeadlyDragon_ appreciate your transparency