I am felt up with my Game Service shared provider’s billing policies and I seriously trying to consider all options/help i might be able to get. Including trying to just rent a suitable VPS instead…

Does anybody know anything else that might help me runs Minetest gaming servers? Or anybody here who might be able help me sort this out?

Thanks you very much in advance!

    • DBGamer@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      Interesting I thank you for looking into all of that of me so yea I don’t think Portainer is gonna work then. As I assumed it was similar to Pterodactyl but for general containers. Like file manager, editor, etc.

      As for minetesthosting.com I tried contacting them a year ago but haven’t seen anything from them. Though I suppose it may be worth reaching out to them once more now it been awhile? If so I gonna see what another guy is willing to do as they wanted me to file a ticket as they reached me on the forums. I wonder if they “fix me up” instead.

      Still thanks for doing everything in regards to Portainer even though it wasn’t as “point and click” as I thought it would be.

      • dandelion@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        Okay! :) Easiest to get a Minetest server up and running imho :

        1. Install Ubuntu 20.04 on a VPS
        2. Add the PPA for Minetest and install Minetest https://launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/ubuntu/stable
        3. Reboot and after a few minutes connect to your VPS ip address to play the game.

        p.s. Then editing files or adding files is another chapter. And one should note that with this setup the server is not added to the public server list but anyone can register. Configuring firewall is also another thing.