Deployment recommendations?

[ianbbqzy]

Does anybody have any recommendations for deployment? I have a simple game coded up and I want to be able to play test with another friend living in another state. I don't need to be able to scale the game for multiple sessions or more than 10 connections. Are there any simple and cheap ways to host a game server? AWS, Heroku, or configuring my router? Thanks!

[chr15m]

@ianbbqzy I would recommend a cheap VPS + Piku for this. Here's what I would do in your position:

• Rent a $5/month Ubuntu VPS (I use Digital Ocean but any provider is fine).
• Run piku-bootstrap root@YOUR-NEW-IP to set up Piku on the remote.
• Add the git remote to your repo: git remote add piku piku@YOUR-NEW-IP:GAMENAME
• Add an ENV file and a Procfile to configure and launch the game server.
• git push to deploy & start the server.

Your procfile could be as simple as:

gameserver: ./my-game-server-script.py $PORT

Then in the ENV file you set the PORT=99999 variable.