[Hosting] Luanti/minetest server hosting (with web-interface)

[BuckarooBanzay]

Hi everyone

A while back i teased in another forum post that i'm working on a Luanti/minetest hosting platform.
Since then there has been some progress and also a few people that tested the platform and reported features and bugs.
The goal is to provide stable, production-ready hosting with reasonable pricing.

The result is available here: https://hosting.luanti.ch

The platform is now in a very stable condition with a plethora of features:

• Server provisioning with just a few clicks
• Allow multiple luanti/minetest engines on a single server
• IPv6 support out of the box
• Secured with HTTPS/TLS by design
• DDoS protection
• Free *.hosting.luanti.ch domain included or bring your own
• Server management web-interface (mtui)
• Mod management via contentdb or git in the web-interface
• SkinDB integration
• Easy backup and restore
• Execute chat-commands or inject lua-code through the web-interface
• mapserver and chatbridge support
• All the code is open-sourced: https://github.com/luanti-hosting / https://github.com/minetest-go

Links:

• Main page with overview: https://luanti.ch/pages/hosting/
• Hosting management platform: https://hosting.luanti.ch
• Discord invite: https://discord.gg/Xj62fUbQkn

Let me know if you have questions, bugs or feature requests :)

[BuckarooBanzay]

Oh, i almost forgot: there is a coupon code: "LUANTI2025" to get you started with some credits (limited to 10 users).

EDIT: the coupon is used up

[s6nougat]

Hi!

To use with Mineclonia, could you please let me know the maximum number of players each server (medium1, large1, large2 or others) can support while remaining stable and lag-free?

Thank you!

[Walker]

Hey BuckarooBanzay/i.

nice to see that another minetest hoster has appeared, even if your server doesn't have a free tier to choose from ... but thats where i come in ...

I also host servers myself... but for free and for forum members only by now.
> viewtopic.php?t=29923

I've been looking for a "web interface" for a while now to manage things more professionally.
Can you give me a quick rundown on how to install this on a bare Debian server?

Don't worry, I don't want to compete with you, I'd just like to cover the "free tier"... so something like less than 1 CPU and less than 1GB RAM xD

another question: since you're working with Docker, are the resources exclusive? ... To put it another way: if a user gets 1GB, does he ALWAYS use 1GB on the host server, or only UP TO (i.e., as much as the Minetest instance needs)?

also I just want to test the whole thing first to see if I can get it running at all.

btw ... here you are called BuckarooBanzay but on discord you are called BuckarooBanzai ... so what is the right one ? "y" or "i" ?

[Walker]

Oh, i almost forgot: there is a coupon code: "LUANTI2025" to get you started with some credits (limited to 10 users).

how often are codes released ?

like is it a "check me discord server weekly" thing ?
or a more like a one-time thingy ?

[BuckarooBanzay]

> or a more like a one-time thingy ?

it's a one-time thing

[BuckarooBanzay]

NOTICE: there was an issue yesterday with creating a certain server-type (SMALL1)
The issue has been solved and should not happen again (commit: https://github.com/luanti-hosting/mt-ho ... 1054e01214).
The problem was that hetzner deprecated the server-type (cx22) on their side and there was no check on the luanti-hosting side that checked for that.

Sorry for the inconvinience (especially to the person that tried it 10 times without luck :)