Welcome on this article. Today. we’ll see how to create a game server on a VPS using the autoinstallation of Pterodactyl panel by CroustyCloud.
Let’s start by purchasing your VPS. You’ll have to put all informations required such as the name of your vps, your password and select the Debian 12 – Pterodactyl operating system. One it’s done, you can click on “Buy”, and then you’ll be redirected to Stripe.
Note: Accepted payment methods are: Paypal, credit cards (Visa, Mastercard).
Once your payment is sent, you’ll have to wait a few minutes for the VPS to be completely installed and ready. Once your VPS is installed, you can see it on your profile. As you can see on the screenshot, my VPS is currently running.
Once your VPS is ready, go to :
https://your-vps-ip:8080
This should be the Pterodactyl’s panel login page.
Credentials will be your name and the password you set when you ordered the VPS.
You can go to “Admin”, then “Servers”, and click on the “New Server” button.
You have to enter a name for your server, set a description and choose the owner, (your email if you want).
You can select all the resources you want to allocate to the game server and the game you want to run.
Problems you COULD have :
- Your Minecraft server is not starting, but you don’t know why.
You probably forgot to put a minimum amount of RAM. If you put “0” like for every other game servers, Minecraft won’t know how much RAM to use and won’t start. - Your server is laggy and freezes sometimes.
If you put something on “CPU Pinning” field, remove it right now, let your server use all the cpu cores ! - My VPS was running great, but now nothing loads anymore !
It is probably because your disk is full of cache files. You can clear them by using the command :
– docker system prune -a -f.
Be sure not to have any containers running on docker outside of pterodactyl.
