r/Pterodactyl

hey all, I am building a lil discord bot in my free time that shows live server status in embed message, I added support for for pterodactyl servers recently, as I know it's got big community. Figured I'd ask if there is something you would guys hypothetically find useful other than seeing live status?

Hi everyone,

I am running the gaming committee for a university student club. We just got approved for a Microsoft Non-Profit program, which gives us €2,000 per year in free Azure credits (about €166/month).

Naturally, we want to use this to host a Minecraft server for our members!

Our situation:

• Players: We expect a peak of around 20 players online at the same time.
• My experience: I have hosted a few basic Minecraft servers before on my own PC/cheap hosts, but I have zero experience with Azure.
• Management: To keep it easy for future committee members, we want to use an Azure Marketplace template that pre-installs the Pterodactyl panel, so we can manage the server via a normal web browser.
• The Plan: Since I read that Minecraft only uses 1 CPU core, I am thinking about setting up a BungeeCord network with 2 or 3 smaller servers (like a Lobby, Survival, and Creative) to split the load.

My worries: I’ve read online that Azure is pretty bad for Minecraft because their processors have poor "single-core performance" and share resources with other users.

Since the money is free for us anyway, we want to pick the best possible Virtual Machine (VM) within Azure that fits our €166/month budget.

• Which type of Azure VM should we pick so the game runs smoothly for 20 players without lagging?
• Does my plan to use BungeeCord to split the load actually help with Azure's CPU bottleneck, or is 20 players small enough to just put everything on one optimized server?

Any advice for an Azure beginner is highly appreciated! Thanks!
^(^Yes this was made using AI)

I'm beginner when it comes to Pterodactyl and server management in general. I recently started to rent dedicated server from Hetzner, which I mainly use for hosting game servers for my community. Regarding our daily gaming sessions, everything works as expected.

I also figured I could also use extra storage on our new dedicated server for large file transfers, video files to be specific. I make gameplay edits from footage recorded by multiple members of my community. The idea is that people can upload their video files onto our Pterodactyl server and I'll download them into my PC. All done via SFTP by WinSCP app (there might be better ways, but this is simply the first idea that came to my mind).

Yesterday, I was downloading large video files uploaded by one of my community members. Download speed through out the day with WinSCP was anywhere between 800Kb/s-3Mb/s. I understand I need to have realistic expectations from low cost server, non guaranteed 1Gbit connection, Pterodactyl overhead etc., but this is still a far cry from what I was expecting.

When I tried command "speedtest-cli --secure" in the server terminal, I was getting speeds around 380Mbit download and 150Mbit upload.

Can you think of any bottlenecks I might have missed? Any room for an improvement?