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Help for self host gaming server and some app (self.selfhosted)

submitted 9 months ago by dragnansia to c/selfhosted

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Hello everyone :D

I’m looking to host some gaming servers to play with my friends (minecraft, enshrouded, and others), and some apps (paperless-ng, jellyfin, seafile, etc.). Each game server must be accessible from the Internet, but only certain applications will be accessible (jellyfin, etc.)

I don't want to open any ports on my router or share my public IP. I already have a domain name, and I'm thinking of using some VPS to host a reverse proxy with tailscale or netbird.

For the VPS, I'm thinking of using OVH with unlimited bandwidth. I already have the domain name here, and I live in France where the servers are.

A few questions :

Is this a good idea ? Any better solution is welcome.
I don't really know how I'm going to redirect subdomains to use the correct reverse proxy. Local DNS on the VPS ?
Tailscale or Netbird ? (I actually don't have any idea)
Won't using Tailscale or Netbird like this cause performance losses on game servers ?

Reverse proxy :

nginx for application
infrared or gate for minecraft server
Others for different game servers if needed.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
UDP	User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx	Popular HTTP server

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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