@mamemomonga
I use nanodes for all my servers.
I ran am Ark server once with Linode- I will NEVER do that again! I basically paid more than the cost of my cellphone bill for a personal videogame server that just sat there inoperable.
That was my fault though- not Linode's.
@mamemomonga
Depending on how much data your server used- it might be more cost effective to host it at home.
All my servers are public-facing and I don't want to open any ports in my router. I already got into a fight over someone wanting to have a port foward for a locally used printer.
@mamemomonga
Either way, there's no point in opening up the firewall for a local device that doesn't need external access. :/
@lucifargundam There is also a way not to expose the router's port using ssh remote forward, but you will need an external server.
Interesting article when I was looking up what you were suggesting:::
https://www.devdungeon.com/content/expose-local-port-over-remote-vps-ssh-remote-port-forwarding
@lucifargundam You can use nginx's streaming function or ssh's Port Forwarding.