Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel

http://github.com/Pterodactyl/Panel

by daneeveritt • 9 years ago

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eddyg• 9 years ago

Screenshots here: https://pterodactyl.io/#gallery

(one of the first things I always look for, so figure there may be others who do the same)

daneeveritt3• 9 years ago

We also have a bunch in our documentation: https://docs.pterodactyl.io/docs/administrative-tour

bussierem• 9 years ago

Oh lord, my friend, please don't force non-mobile users to click-drag those pictures. Put some arrows on that gallery for the love of UX! :)

rb666• 9 years ago

Wow hadn't found this yet, time to spin up another LXC.

cdevs• 9 years ago

Can't stop reading it as Pee teridactyl

damm2• 9 years ago

The bad part is I would have deployed this years ago when I wasn't so PHP fobic. I'd hesitate to deploy this today as I am not up to date on PHP security and pretty much that'd be my first thing to review is the code.

Tests are beyond basic it looks like the templates to just verify it boots...

No i'm not some Go god; or Rust nuthouse... just bad experience with php and security

mikewhy• 9 years ago

They do have a container option:

Pterodactyl is the first game panel to make use of Docker to control servers and harden your network.

RubyPinch• 9 years ago

that is referring to the daemons if I'm not mistaken

daneeveritt3• 9 years ago

The tests are happening in another branch, but you're right, they do not exist on the main develop branch yet. I've seen people run this in containers as well, and theres no reason it wouldn't. But if you don't like PHP, then unfortunately theres nothing I can really do about that. :)

stephenr2• 9 years ago

But if you don't like PHP, then unfortunately theres nothing I can really do about that. :)

This is the correct point of view for a project maintainer. Well said.

Operyl• 9 years ago

Shouldn't this be a Show HN since it's his own project?

wiradikusuma• 9 years ago

"Pterodactyl Panel is the free, open-source, game agnostic, self-hosted control panel for users, networks, and game service providers" -- I'm sorry I still don't understand what it does.

I play mostly single player games, but I'm familiar with LAN games: One guy becomes "host" and the rest "join" him. This setup happens inside the game UI. Where does a "Game Server Management" software fit?

db48x• 9 years ago

It's for when you want to run a personal server, but don't actually know how to use the command-line.

schrej2• 9 years ago

For lots of games there is server software available (e.g. Minecraft) which allows a server to become host and all players can then join the server and play together. This panel allows to easily control those servers ;)

zyx321• 9 years ago

It's made for administrating dedicated servers, where the host does not actively participate in the game. This has several major advantages.

* Performance: The server does not need to render the UI, and is often completely headless (hence the use of this software).

* Fairness: The host in your scenario has zero latency, giving them a competitive advantage over players with tens or hundreds of milliseconds of network delay.

* Availability: Some games provide a persistent world with the ability to drop in and out at any time (e.g. Minecraft). No single player is present for the entire session.

maccard2• 9 years ago

The server requirements [0] state that Linux is the only OS supported. Is it possible to launch an instance of a windows game?

[0] https://docs.pterodactyl.io/docs/server-requirements

schrej2• 9 years ago

As we are using docker that is not possible at the moment. We are working on a new daemon which may support running servers outside of containers and on Windows servers at some point in the not so near future.

maccard2• 9 years ago

That's disappointing, but thanks for getting back to me.

mysterydip• 9 years ago

I've been working on a game that will use dedicated servers, and contemplating the best way to manage them. This is timely and definitely worth consideration as a solution. Thanks!

Nitrado• 9 years ago

I'm working for Nitrado (Europe's largest gameserver provider), and we happen to have lots of experience in building and scaling indie game server infrastructures :)

Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel

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