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.xyzEnglish
    7·
    6 hours 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.

    • mrmaplebar@fedia.ioOP
      4·
      5 hours 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!

      • rollin@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 hours 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?

      • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Can’t port forward through the CGNAT of my ISP, only my own router’s NAT.

        That is, unless I buy a unique IPv4 from my ISP.

          • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            As I said, I’ve got a VPS. The VPS is not on my local net, but in a datacenter. As part of being a VPS it has a unique IPv4.

            My VPN (which I currently use for TCP traffic) is hosted on the VPS, giving me access to (and from) all devices connected to my VPN regardless of whether they are behind a NAT or not.

            I’ve also got a beefy server which hosts more power hungry services, though this one is behind multiple layers of NAT. I can forward and reverse-proxy TCP services from the beefy server through the VPN and out to the public net using another server with a unique IPv4 just fine.

            What I (and OP) need, is to also be able to forward\reverse-proxy UDP services from a beefy NATed/firewalled server through a VPN and out to the public internet using another server which has a unique IPv4.