Pufferpanel on VPS
Pufferpanel is a game hosting application, this is my way of hosting it on a virtual server
SOFTWARE PORTFOLIO
Ghaffar A
10/5/20212 min read
One of my first projects was when I used a VPS to host an application.
I used Oracle Cloud as it allowed for a free tier account. Everytime we needed a Minecraft server we had to self host at home or pay for one with a name brand provider.
I stumbled across a video that sparked my interest in virtualization. :
Hp_crafter : How to set up a powerful 24/7 1.17 Minecraft Server on Oracle Cloud for Free 2021
(Note pufferpanel video is not avaliable but similar concepts)
For the VPS it was a 4 core arm processor (Ampire) with 20GB ram with OS of Ubuntu. If you want to replicate you need a VPS which can open ports for port forwading
Tools needed on my side were Putty (or any SSH client to take a private key) and WinSCP or FileZilla for SFTP file transfer
Once the Oracle account was set up and the VPS was online I used these commands to get everything setup and installed:
Command List I used :
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo -s //root mode
java -version (Check if there is JAVA installed )
If not :
sudo apt install default-jre
java -version
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/pufferpanel/pufferpanel/script.deb.sh | sudo bash sudo apt-get install pufferpanel
sudo pufferpanel user add //pufferpanel account setup
sudo systemctl enable --now pufferpanel //start and enable on startup
apt install firewalld //installing firewall
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=25565/tcp //port opening rules
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=8080/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=5657/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload //reload firewall to add new rules
Done!
This is what you should have when you navigate to the IP with the port of 8080 after login:
