Hey, does anybody host a server for players outside the home network? At home, we have the server running of the “player 1” laptop and connect via local IP. For external players, I am hesitant to expose our network and am considering a VPS.
Do you have any recommendations? Thanks!
I haven’t done much with my home server yet, but it does have a Minecraft server “exposed”.
I’ve got a $5/month Linode (VPS) running a reverse proxy and a wireguard server. That forwards traffic (through wireguard) to a second reverse proxy on my home network which then forwards to the appropriate service.
It’s affordable, not too difficult to set up, and gives me a static IP I can point my domains at while obscuring my home network.
Interesting setup. I currently access my home network via VPN, do not fell confident with reverse proxies etc, yet. But same goes fit VPS, so I am ready to learn something new.