Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel

Re:Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel by wiradikusuma on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:13AM (#14733748)

"Pterodactyl Panel is the free, open-source, game agnostic, self-hosted control panel for users, networks, and game service providers" -- I'm sorry I still don't understand what it does.

I play mostly single player games, but I'm familiar with LAN games: One guy becomes "host" and the rest "join" him. This setup happens inside the game UI. Where does a "Game Server Management" software fit?

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Re:Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel by zyx321 on Monday July 10, 2017 @03:46AM (#14734076)

It's made for administrating dedicated servers, where the host does not actively participate in the game. This has several major advantages.

* Performance: The server does not need to render the UI, and is often completely headless (hence the use of this software).

* Fairness: The host in your scenario has zero latency, giving them a competitive advantage over players with tens or hundreds of milliseconds of network delay.

* Availability: Some games provide a persistent world with the ability to drop in and out at any time (e.g. Minecraft). No single player is present for the entire session.

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Re:Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel by schrej on Monday July 10, 2017 @03:32AM (#14734023)

For lots of games there is server software available (e.g. Minecraft) which allows a server to become host and all players can then join the server and play together. This panel allows to easily control those servers ;)

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Re:Pterodactyl – An Open-Source Game Server Management Panel by db48x on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:19AM (#14733771)

It's for when you want to run a personal server, but don't actually know how to use the command-line.

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