neomac3444

Thanks for the reply. Any thoughts on which is better? AMP or Pterodactyl?

Hey Guys, New to the forum and Unraid. Its been 10+ years since I have played with a server, last server was Ubuntu. I'm not new to servers but there are certainly more options on how to do things today. So I am setting up a server to do the following and am just seeking a little advice after reading many guides and posts for different examples of each. I have settled on Unraid 6.12 These are the services I intend to run: Plex SMB - Local Phone/Photo Backup - for entire family (includes those outside of my house) Game Servers w/ Friends - Ark, Minecraft, SmallLands, Satisfactory My first question is not sure what the better methods are for setting up communications to the open world. It used to be you just open a port on your router and direct traffic to that port and done. However, was reading many different sets of advice about setting up a reverse proxy with using a platform like Cloudflare and Nginx. Is that really the recommended method even though I will not be "Hosting" a website on my server? My second question is for game servers. Is it better to be running these in a VM and just let them be in their own VM for each server? Or is a docker like AMP or Pterodactyl a better way to go about setting up multiple servers? Thanks for the advice! Marc