For those who don’t know, playit.gg is a free/cheap service for exposing self-hosted local game servers to the wider internet.

But as someone who already has access to a cheapish VPS, I’m curious if anyone knows of any self-hostable alternatives that I could just run as a container on my VPS.

I’ve been toying with using Wireguard UDP tunneling, but it’s proving to be a little bit more difficult and complicated than I was bargaining for. So if anyone knows of anything out there that does something like this, I’d be grateful!

  • Ekky@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    The game server is probably behind a NAT. I’m standing in the same situation.

    Got a small VPS with a TCP VPN to access all my devices despite location, and a comparably powerfull server behind a NAT which I would like to host UDP services on.

    It needs to be said that we are talking actual VPNs here, and not “VPN-as-proxy” to spoof your location etc.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, that sort of thing.

      I should say that I’m finally having some luck with using wireguard, so I’m making progress. Got a few rounds of Counter-Strike in with a friend about an hour ago!

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        2 months ago

        Would that be CS 1.6? Can you get your game server to appear in the public list when you do it this way?

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            2 months ago

            Cool! I miss the CS 1.6 days when you’d have a favorite server or two where you’d play with familiar faces.