Fun bit of history: most of this website was originally thrown together with ChatGPT 3.5 back in the day. The whole thing is a single PowerShell script that reads some markdown files and spits out HTML. No frameworks, no node_modules folder the size of a small moon, just a script. And honestly, 3.5 did alright for its time. The site existed, it mostly worked, and the build ran in about two minutes on our git runner instead of twenty.
It also had some absolute classics in there. The blog page literally could not scroll (a stray overflow hidden on the body), the contact section rendered as a single "#" character, and bullet lists showed up as one giant run-on paragraph. There was a bullet point character that displayed as "•" because of an encoding mixup. My favorite one was the "#" bug, which turned out to be a genuinely cursed PowerShell quirk: when you split a string and pipe it, a single element array gets unwrapped into a plain string, so indexing [0] gives you the first character instead of the first section. That one had been sitting there for over a year.
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Everything we run sits on Proxmox VE, and at this point we wouldn't build on anything else. It's open source, it runs full VMs and lightweight containers side by side, and it quietly does the job other vendors charge five figures for. With VMware's new owners currently torching perpetual licences, a lot of people are discovering it all at once, so this seems like a good week to write up what we'd tell them.
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Every server on the public internet gets scanned within minutes of coming online. Not maybe, not eventually, minutes. We watch it happen from the hosting side: a fresh IP starts collecting SSH login attempts before the OS has finished its first round of updates. Security isn't something you bolt on later, it's the foundation everything else sits on.
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So you want to run your own game server. Good news: it's easier than it's ever been. Bad news: there are still a dozen ways to make your future self miserable. We've stood up more of these than we can count, for our own communities and for other people's, so here's the long version of what we tell everyone who asks.
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