Show HN: Pay-as-you-play game servers from Discord (£2/mo, four games)

Category: infrastructure

Tags: game-servers, discord-bot, cloudflare-workers

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

This project provides a Discord-controlled, pay-as-you-play dedicated game server hosting solution that spins up Hetzner VMs on demand and auto-shuts down when idle, saving costs for casual gaming groups. Its architecture integrates Cloudflare Workers, Docker, and persistent block volumes for a seamless, low-cost experience. The project is interesting for its practical approach to solving idle server waste, with good documentation and extensibility for adding more games.

Target audience: backend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/jdmcgrath/steam-server-on-demand · Shell · MIT

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