Opening up my server to the public
Hey everyone, I have a server that I have been hosting on my own computer for 10+ years (it’s changed versions but the world has remained intact) now and only letting in friends and family. It is a paper server and I have a good few plugins but nothing crazy however the world is vast. I finally am in a spot where I’d like more people to be able to join. My main question is around the safest way to do so.
I would love to be able to “open the floodgate” so to speak and let people start joining and experiencing but again want to ensure on the network side I’m safe. The plugin/internal protection side I am working on getting all my permissions and anti grief zones down.
My main question is should I stick with self hosting and just “lock down” my network and server or explore a hosting option as I may need to scale off my personal computer. My current specs are more than reasonable to host on my own, (Paper server 1.21) Ryzen 5900x 4070ti 32gb DDR4 1tb SSD
My main question is should I stick with self hosting and just “lock down” my network and server or explore a hosting option as I may need to scale off my personal computer. My current specs are more than reasonable to host on my own, (Paper server 1.21) Ryzen 5900x 4070ti 32gb DDR4 1tb SSD
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Requested by isorinzler#0
how many players are you expecting etc
It’s ever only been a max of 8-10 on my server at a time but I want to open this up to a much larger audience so at least 50 to start because I don’t really know how popular it’ll be.
get a hosting provider
would not recommend doing it locally
Kind of the direction I was leaning thank you so much
May I ask what marketing strategy/plan you have? 🙂
Lots of brute force posting and hopefully word of mouth. I do marketing for work (partially) so I have a few strategies in mind. Feel free to PM me if you want to chat more in depth or have any suggestions.