After moving to a more permanent, more professional-feeling solution for my home server HTTP traffic in the form of Cloudflare Tunnels, I set my eyes on the cost effectiveness of my Virtual Machine.

The Tailscale funnels I setup earlier was a fun experiment, but it had way too many moving parts for my liking. I could move to zrok for my web applications (like I did with Minecraft), but I learnt of another product.

Before today I though connecting to Minecraft was as simple as “give IP address and a port, if port not specified, use 25565”. The IP can be provided directly, or resolved from DNS A type records. That is… until I started playing around with playit.gg.

Well the title should really say exposing arbitrary TCP or UDP ports to the internet as this is basically what is being done here.

I should start with a disclaimer, please for the love of god, do not use this setup for production use. This article is for educational purposes only!

This is an older writeup I did, might as well leave all my blogs in one place.