SELF-HOSTED GAME SERVER PLATFORM

Deploy. Secure. Monitor. Repeat

A fully self-hosted game server management platform built on Pterodactyl, Docker, and Ansible — production-hardened from day one.
ARCHITECTURE

How It All Fits Together

The full stack, from bare metal to browser.

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USER LAYER
🖥️
Browser
HTTPS access
HTTPS / SSL
REVERSE PROXY
🔒
Nginx
Reverse proxy
🛡️
Let's Encrypt
SSL / TLS certs
🔥
UFW
Firewall rules
internal routing
UBUNTU SERVER
🦕
Pterodactyl
Panel + Wings
🐳
Docker
Game containers
🗄️
MySQL
Panel database
Redis
Session cache
metrics + security
MONITORING + SECURITY
📊
Prometheus
Metrics scraping
📈
Grafana
Dashboards
🚫
Fail2Ban
Intrusion prevention
⚙️
Ansible
IaC automation
SETUP GUIDE

8 Phases to Production

Do it manually first. Then automate everything.
01

Harden Base OS

Secure the server before anything touches the network.
02

Install Docker

Foundation for all containerized services
03

Deploy Pterodactyl

Panel + Wings game server management
04

Configure Nginx + SSL

HTTPS reverse proxy with Let's Encrypt
05

Security Hardening

Fail2Ban, UFW firewall, SSH audit
06

Monitoring Stack

Prometheus, Grafana, Node Exporter
07

Ansible Automation

Convert manual steps into IaC playbooks
08

Verify & Document

Dry-run, security audit, simulate failures
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Ready to Deploy?

Spin up your own production-grade game server platform in 8 steps. No cloud lock-in. Full control.
A fully self-hosted game server management platform.
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