You still don’t see the game server you want to host? Well get this, because Unraid is so flexible you can host whatever server you want in a Virtual Machine, like I do with Space Engineers. So a little more work will be needed by you to get them working. DockerHub can be used by Unraid to find and install containers that are not necessarily per-configured to work with Unraid out of the box. If you don’t see an existing container for a server you want to host, you can still download and use any container found in DockerHub.
The community has a very wide selection of servers available in container form and you can check out the entire repository here: I am currently hosting a few private servers in container form and they are:Īnother Server I am hosting in a Windows Virtual Machine is Space Engineers. If you want to know why I selected these parts you should read the following blog post.īecause I have so many extra resources I’ve decided to really open up to my friends and host servers for us/them. PiHole DNS (home network wide ad blocking)Įverything listed above does not require the hardware I have but thankfully I have been fortunate enough to afford a pretty sweet and overkill system.ĪsRock Rack X570D4U-2L2T Motherboard - $439.99Ĭorsair LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz C16 (CMK32GX4M2B3200C16) - $139.99Ĥx NVMe Lite-ON CX2-GB1024-Q11 1TB - $50 each used. How I use Unraid to Host Dedicated Game Servers Current Roles my Server FulfillsĪt the time of writing my server does the following things.
One last note, generally you should never “put all your eggs in one basket” meaning, it probably is not the best idea in the world to backup all your data to your Unraid server then expose more and more ports to the containers or virtual machines because these will broaden your vulnerability vectors. Personally, I feel safe enough to port forward directly to containers and virtual machines and do not currently use reverse proxy, one day I might but for now I think it’s fine. You can read more about both with the two links below: Security is a deep rabbit hole with many caveats, if you feel the need to be as secure as possible then you will need to do more leg work to get things “done right”. It is relatively safe to port forward to specific containers and virtual machines hosted by Unraid, however, if you at all plan on sharing your game servers with strangers you should highly consider setting up reverse proxy for extra protection and other features. This will open up your server to attacks from folks on the world wide web.
You should know, that you should never port forward the ports 80 and 443 to your Unraid host (the Unraid webUI). Well, why not use those extra resources to host some dedicated game servers for yourself and your friends or family? Heads Up Or maybe you overbuilt your server and want to do more with it. It turns out you have some extra resources than you expected from your Unraid NAS build.
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