Minecraft reverse proxy
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electricMiner · 2023-12-11 18:59

Is it possible to run a minecraft server behind a reverse TCP proxy
server? When a client attempts to connect to the server the reverse
proxy would determine which computer has a lighter load and forward
the TCP traffic there. Is there any tutorial on how to set something
like this up?

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ElevenNotes · 2023-12-11 19:16

Yes. Use haproxy with a custom script to check for the load of the
minecraft servers. You have to use sticky sessions though since its a
game server.

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BlatantMediocrity · 2023-12-11 19:33

Yeah you would also have issues if you have a couple friends who want
to join the same server, but then the load balancer silently switches
them to different hosts when they join.

I've seen people set up servers with each game server on its own
subdomain. When you join the top-level domain, you get redirected with
the load balancer, but if you join via entering the subdomain then
you'll always end up at the same server.

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thekrautboy · 2023-12-11 22:22

/r/Admincraft btw

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Lumsti · 2023-12-11 22:27

There are already solutions for this. They are optimized for Minecraft
Serverfarms.

Search for Multipaper, Bungegate (Bungeecord Loadbalancing), Velocity,
Waterfall etc.

Those are used by the really big Minecraft Servers with thousand of
players as well.

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ice-h2o · 2023-12-12 06:54

Mc Router by itzg

https://github.com/itzg/mc-router

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electricMiner · 2023-12-13 17:33

Thanks. Multipaper looks like it would work for me.