Open-source dedicated game server platform. Spin up Minecraft, Valheim, Rust, Palworld, Enshrouded and Terraria on your own Hetzner Cloud account in seconds.
Okay this is actually sick for anyone hosting game servers 👀 Self-hosted + open-source + spins up servers in seconds is a huge W. Way cleaner than dealing with manual setup every time.
Been running Valheim servers manually on Hetzner for a while and the setup is genuinely annoying every time. This is the tool I kept thinking someone should build. Curious how hard it'd be to swap the backend to a different provider once that adapter system lands.
The "in seconds" claim is the part most game-server tools struggle with. What's actually happening in the background when a user spins up a Minecraft server? Pre-built images?
Where was this when I was gaming actively and managing a ton of servers? WHERE? :(
Would it matter if someone were to deploy this over their own colocated machines instead of a cloud?
Will it only support Hetzner Cloud or do you plan to expand in the future with other providers like OVH Cloud?
Running game servers on Hetzner is already a solid cost move compared to AWS/GCP. Curious how Ghost handles server restarts after crashes - does it auto-restart the game process, or do players need to manually trigger it? Thats usually the first thing that bites you in production.
This is really cool. I've been looking for something like this for Valheim — the existing hosting options were either too expensive or too complicated to set up. Self-hosted with one click sounds like a game changer for small gaming groups.
Interesting, I remember during my gaming days (where I used to do more, at least) wanting to create a platform for hosted game servers, CS:GO specifically. Best of luck with this! Will keep it bookmarked.
About Ghost on Product Hunt
“Open-source, self-hosted game servers”
Ghost launched on Product Hunt on May 9th, 2026 and earned 322 upvotes and 19 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Open-source dedicated game server platform. Spin up Minecraft, Valheim, Rust, Palworld, Enshrouded and Terraria on your own Hetzner Cloud account in seconds.
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Okay this is actually sick for anyone hosting game servers 👀 Self-hosted + open-source + spins up servers in seconds is a huge W. Way cleaner than dealing with manual setup every time.