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What is this witchcraft? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Royal_Olive9948@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Almost 10 years ago I purchased a Synology NAS for local storage and backups. I was really happy with the ease of use and their support is top notch. I got it set up and didn’t think much about it. Fast forward and a deal on a used server comes around and all the sudden I have a lot to learn. Proxmox, TrueNas, Nginx Proxy Manager… a whole new world I had somehow never even thought about. The concept of virtual machines blew my mind. Spin up a machine, mess it up, tear it down, repeat. Kids wanted to host a Minecraft server. No problem, pterodactyl. But wait, pterodactyl wants to be installed in a machine that doesn’t have any other software installed. No problem, I got one of those! This is magic and I’m loving it. I mostly lurk around here but thanks to everyone who posts because this place is a great source of knowledge and sarcasm and I appreciate both!

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[–] TheGreaterSage@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A little late but if you are still hosting game servers I really recommend something a other than pterodactyl. When I was setting them up I found it the most obtuse to use and configure. Something simple to setup is PufferPanel and what I ended up settling on is CubeCoders AMP. Though AMP does cost money, it's also the best one I have used, easy to setup and configure, runs great and was a one time purchase. PufferPanel was great for Minecrafter servers though.

[–] Royal_Olive9948@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I do have cubecoders amp running as well. And, I agree, setup was easy and I have a bungee cord server running on there now. I don’t mind paying a reasonable one time price for well supported software. The only reason I am also trying pterodactyl is the integration with databases directly in the panel. I wanted to try a few addons for the Minecraft server and they require regis and sql. Still working on getting it all setup but I also read that database support is in the pipeline for Amp so I’m looking forward to that.