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Any self-hostable alternative to playit.gg for easily exposing local game servers to the public internet? (fedia.io)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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!

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[–] 1 point 4 days ago* (1 child)

Pangolin would work, it's still wireguard underneath but with a webUI to set up things and simplify it. It's fairly easy to install on your server with their docker compose examples.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    I think Pangolin would be massively overkill for this. It's designed to be a CDN layer orchestrator and it's primarily a HTTP reverse proxy. You can do it with Pangolin but it complicates things and you'd need more resources too.

    All you really need on the VPS is to run a tunnel (WG or OpenVPN) and forward whatever ports the games need from the VPS public IP into the tunnel. Maybe a DDNS tool/script if the public IP is dynamic.

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