2026-09-07 23:24 UTC
Any self-hostable alternative to playit.gg for easily exposing local game servers to the public internet?
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!
Replies (3)
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@northertech@fedia.io 2026-09-08 00:31
Use Tailscale, it's stupid simple. it is a Wireguard wrapper anyways.
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@Manodor@feddit.org 2026-09-08 07:05
You could use frp to proxy specific ports to your vps. github.com/fatedier/frp
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@sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2026-09-11 07:28
Aside from Wireguard, you have Wireguard alternatives-but-not-really-since-they-are-based-on-Wireguard like Netbird and Tailscale. The latter is more well-known, but the main downside is that, to connect to the cloud servers, you need a Google, Microsoft, or Github account to login. It can be self-hosted with Headscale (community project) though! Netbird is similar to Tailscale, but you can use normal email login to use their cloud servers, and they offer official self-hosting support.