installing on digitalocean or a VPS

[ShiningVenus]

Maybe I missed it some place or maybe it could be planned but instructions to install via DigitalOcean or any/all well known and such VPS services could be an idea for a document sometime or referenced.

Thanks!

[sleeplessKomodo]

I've got it running on a Linode instance and it's working great. The instructions are the same as hosting using Docker self-hosted. install docker.

Assuming a standard ubuntu 24.04 LTS instance, you open the ports needed, 4991/tcp, 40000/tcp and 40000/udp, and 80 and 22 for http and ssh.

ufw allow 22/tcp
ufw allow 80/tcp
ufw allow 443/tcp
ufw allow 40000/udp
ufw enable

put sharkord somewhere. I used /opt/sharkord then create the compose.yaml and use the reference compose from the docs.

start it: docker compose up -d

set the announce address in the config.ini from the data directory

[webRtc]
port=40000
announcedAddress=YOUR_DOMAIN #ie. rtc.your_domain.com

Now, the rest depends on if you have a domain already. You would need to add DNS records for sharkord and the RTC address (for the announce address). I use cloudflare for DNS, but use whatever you like. Sharkord traffic can be proxied, but RTC traffic cannot.

Then, you'd set up a reverse proxy on the VPS, ie. Caddy, install caddy and use the reference caddy config from the docs.

Once you have caddy and sharkord running, the instructions from the docs provide all the other info needed to get started

[ShiningVenus]

I got it up and running now but thanks!