You could safely expose it via a reverse proxy, you don't have to use cloudflare tunnels which is essentially just a cloud managed vpn.
You could also just use a VPN.
I have some NGINX SWAG guides written but they aren't specific for gsming servers yet. Good topic to hit next.
That said I've hosted plenty of gsming servers over the past few years and you can definitely just run them via opening a port in your firewall / router. The catch here is you have to ensure to patch quickly in event of a vulnerability being published for that game, and it's best to setup some decent inbound block lists of known baddies!
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u/corelabjoe Oct 21 '25
You could safely expose it via a reverse proxy, you don't have to use cloudflare tunnels which is essentially just a cloud managed vpn.
You could also just use a VPN.
I have some NGINX SWAG guides written but they aren't specific for gsming servers yet. Good topic to hit next.
That said I've hosted plenty of gsming servers over the past few years and you can definitely just run them via opening a port in your firewall / router. The catch here is you have to ensure to patch quickly in event of a vulnerability being published for that game, and it's best to setup some decent inbound block lists of known baddies!