The Terraria Server Odyssey: A Tour of Modern Deployment Options
My son casually mentioned he’d been playing Terraria with friends. “You know,” I said, brain already spinning up infrastructure diagrams, “I could set up a dedicated server so you guys don’t have to host it yourselves.” He shrugged. “Sure, that’d be cool.” And just like that, I was nerd sniped. What followed was a three-day odyssey through modern deployment platforms, each promising simplicity and each revealing unexpected limitations. TCP port 7777 — how hard could it be? ...