How to spin up Game Servers with Vultr Marketplace

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Walt will show you 2 ways to quickly create a game server on Vultr - one with our one-click Minecraft installation on Vultr Marketplace, and another within Terminal after deploying a Vultr server.

This workshop has been presented at JS GameDev Summit 2022, check out the latest edition of this JavaScript Conference.

FAQ

Vulture is launching a new location, but the specific details are yet to be announced. You can find out the new location first by following Vulture on Twitter.

To deploy a Minecraft server on Vulture, you can select the desired Minecraft version like Forge or Vanilla from the Marketplace, choose your server specifications, and then click 'Deploy'. This will set up your Minecraft server automatically.

Vulture offers a variety of servers and services including optimized cloud compute, bare metal servers, Kubernetes (K8s), and object storage. They also support deploying applications like game servers and e-commerce platforms through their Marketplace.

To become a vendor on the Vulture Marketplace, visit the Vulture website, navigate to the Marketplace section, and click on 'Become a Vendor'. You'll need to register and submit your app or game as a snapshot for approval and deployment on Vulture's infrastructure.

Vulture provides optimized infrastructure for gaming servers with features like automatic backups, IPv6 support, and a variety of deployment options. They offer competitive pricing and a wide selection of apps and services through their Marketplace.

Yes, new users can use the promotional code 'GitNation1.5.0' to receive a $150 credit when signing up on Vulture. This credit can be used to explore different services and deployments on their platform.

You can contact Vulture support by emailing [email protected]. They offer developer-to-developer support and are known for their responsive and helpful customer service.

Vulture provides comprehensive documentation on a wide range of topics, including server deployment, connecting via SSH, and using various applications. This documentation is available on their website under the 'Docs' section.

Vulture is continuously expanding, with plans to increase their presence in Africa and Asia. They currently have 24 locations and are planning to open more in the near future.

Walt Ribeiro
Walt Ribeiro
29 min
12 Apr, 2022

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Vulture offers a variety of products and services, including Kubernetes, object storage, and game servers. They have over 20 locations and are launching a new one soon. Vulture's marketplace provides over 50 applications and game engines, making it easy to deploy and launch gaming servers. Becoming a vendor on the marketplace allows developers to promote and launch their own games. Vulture emphasizes transparency in pricing, offers human-to-human support, and has plans for expansion in Africa and Asia.

1. Introduction to Products and Marketplace

Short description:

We have kubernetes, object storage, and over 20 locations. We're launching a new location this week. Let's get into the fun stuff like coding, gaming, launching, and deploying. We have optimized cloud compute, object storage, K8s, bare metal, and more coming soon. In the Marketplace, we have over 50 applications, including game servers, e-commerce, and web servers. Specifically for games, we have a variety of game engines and servers, including Minecraft servers like Bedrock, Forge, Paper Spigot, Vanilla, and Minecraft. You can deploy on Vulture in two easy ways.

So we have a lot of cool stuff here. We have kubernetes, we have, you know, we have our object storage, we have over 20 locations. We're launching a new location this week. More on that maybe later today or tomorrow. If you follow us on Twitter you'll be the first one to find out what that location is. I can't say anything right now, though.

So I'll just go here to products. We're not going to be talking too much about all the products. Let's just get into the fun stuff. Coding, gaming, launching, deploying. So we have optimized cloud compute, we have our object storage like I mentioned, our K8s, we have bare metal, and a lot of other things coming soon. So here's our website. Here's all of our locations. We have 24, 25 coming soon.

And if you go over here to Marketplace, this is a big thing that I want to show you in terms of launching a gaming server engine. So there's a couple things that you can do. Let's say that we have a server in house. If you just want to explore Marketplace, we have over 50 applications, 55 and counting. But we have everything from game servers, to e-commerce, to our web servers. Let's say that maybe you wanted to launch a blog or you wanted to monitor something for your database. But let's go to the games, because that's what we're talking about here. So we have a lot of cool game engines and game servers. And that's what all of this is. We have Minecraft servers. And this is growing each week, too. So here's all of the Minecraft servers that we have, for example. Bedrock, Forge, we have Paper Spigot, Vanilla, Minecraft. And to deploy on Vulture, you can deploy in two easy ways. So if you were to sign up for Vulture, and don't sign up yet, because I'm going to give you a cool coupon code to get started with Vulture. But if you wanted to launch something on Vulture, let's say we wanted to launch Minecraft Forge.

2. Deploying Gaming Servers

Short description:

I would click on Deploy, and it automatically has me set up to my deploy page on the back end. I'm already logged in. I've now launched Minecraft. Another way of deploying a gaming server is by clicking on deploy new server and doing everything from scratch. I can also click on marketplace apps and do a search. Minecraft Forge, 30 hours a month, auto backups. Deploy.

I would click on Deploy, and it kicks me out to my account. And it automatically has me set up to my deploy page on the back end. Now, you won't see this unless you sign up and register. But when you do register, I'm already logged in.

I'm in Philadelphia, so I'll just click on Manhattan. It already has Minecraft chosen for me here. And if I just keep going, general $30 a month server, great. I'll enable automatic backups, that's awesome. IPv6 and I'll press deploy. Just like that, I've now launched Minecraft.

OK. So let's say that I want to... Well, that's still propagating. OK, so another way of deploying a gaming server is I go here and I can click on deploy new server and here I'm just doing everything from scratch. And it's the same layout, it just it gets squished because I moved it in a little bit.

OK, so let me see where's New York. New York, OK. Debian, deploy now. OK, so then up here, instead of clicking on Debian, I'm gonna click on marketplace apps and I can do my search here. And then let's just do, I can't see the button. There we go. It keeps on reshifting because of the zoom. I can't move. Let me see if I can push this up. Yeah, I guess that's fine. All right. So Minecraft Forge, we'll click that. And 30 hours a month again. Auto backups sure. Deploy.

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