I’m trying to see if other than the following game server managers are there any others either commercial or open source that use docker, swarm or kubernetes to run game servers.

I have worked with in the past with many game servers like:

Pterodactyl - community is slightly toxic, go there looking for help and they are not too friendly, however the bot tool they have helps with troubleshooting. Pterodactyl has t been updated or optimized in years.

Jexactyl: replacement Panel for Pterodactyl - lots of useful features but community not too knowledgeable when it comes to solving problems caused by their integrations. At least they are not toxic like the main Pterodactyl Discord.

AMP: Paid game server manager by cube coders. This solution wasn’t that terrible performancewise, however their community mods run a mock without a leash and make the atmosphere toxic. The scripting format they use to configure install the “game servers” is a nightmare to work with and the templating system sucks. If you need to create a template it’s absolutely impossible to get help to troubleshoot. The mods steal your templates and do t give you proper credit.

WindowsGSM: simple but effectively easy to use. Runs in Windows, not too memory efficient but again does the job. Main dev has been building next generation panel for years but it seems to be vaporware. Community is ok, pretty friendly and making templates is done via c#. I think the inspiration for this GSM came from LGSM. (Doesn’t uses docker, but it’s worth mentioning regardless)

All of the above server platforms are pretty decent, but you can’t really use them as turnkey solution for a business plush as a hobby.

I wish there was a version of Portainer that was optimized and conceived with Game Server management in mind because with their robustness and service I’d put my money right there but it needs a lot of work to entertain that idea.

Are there any others I may have missed and should try?

  • Nightwish612@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Personally I have licenses for amp and have only had the issue that they do seem a little toxic when you go over there for help on things. Everything else with amp has been great for me it does everything I want it to

  • powerfulparadox@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been looking into this, although I’m aiming a lot lower for various reasons (I’m settling for Pufferpanel). I found Moonlight panel, which is another replacement for Pterodactyl’s panel, and they seem to be doing a rewrite that (among other things) will replace the wings daemons as well. It’s spun off from Endelon hosting, though, so it should be fairly robust. I can’t really comment on the quality of their community, my only experience being a drive-through scanning of their Discord.

    It looks interesting, but I’m looking for something that’s straightforward to run in docker itself (not on the host) because I want the simplicity of Traefik routing for everything (yes, I know that I CAN have Traefik do host routing, I just don’t want to have to bother). That said, it certainly looks capable of fulfilling your requirements, so I thought I’d share it here.

  • highedutechsup@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is self hosted really meant for business? Do you mean like a coffee shop environment that people can spin up servers for themselves or what is the point? All the apps you pointed out work fine for selfhosted home and lanparty environments Most people that host servers want os compatibility and hardware speed. Docker isn’t really known for its Windows compatibility that a lot of game servers need. Linux servers are more popular but a lot of the games people play have their servers on lockdown so this is really a niche market anymore.