HomelabOS vs panel

HomelabOS

By NickBusey

Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users. (by pterodactyl)

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HomelabOS		panel
	Project
16	Mentions	208
-	Stars	6,009
-	Growth	3.0%
-	Activity	6.7
-	Latest Commit	12 days ago
	Language	PHP
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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HomelabOS

Posts with mentions or reviews of HomelabOS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.

Starting to build a long-term personal hub, looking for starting guidelines
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 May 2023

you should have a look at https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS seems to fit your needs quite well.
HomelabOS v0.9.1
1 project | /r/HomelabOS | 22 Mar 2023

v0.9.1 is now available! https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS/-/tags/v0.9.1
Ask HN: Share your new devbox setup process My own setup is included here
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2023
Unable to Install Because of Python Error?
1 project | /r/HomelabOS | 4 Dec 2022
Trying to 'make update' after long time: Jinja2 version problem?
1 project | /r/HomelabOS | 12 Aug 2022

This morning I tried deploying to a new, clean install of Ubuntu 22.04 and I did indeed hit the python-simplejson problem mentioned in issue 722.
Using Gitlab Container Registry
1 project | /r/HomelabOS | 6 Mar 2022

Anyone able to setup the container registry feature of Gitlab when running under HomelabOS? Seems like some of the configuration is already done in the Docker Compose file but I'm not seeing the container registry listed in my project as you would see here.
Trilium Losing Settings after Reboot
2 projects | /r/HomelabOS | 5 Dec 2021

I've been bumping into this same issue, it looks like the Trilium container isn't saving anything into it's trilium-data/ volume. The docker-compose.yml for HomeLabOS omits setting the TRILIUM_DATA_DIR environment variable to the data volume as in Trilium's docker-compose.yml.
Can't install on fresh Ubuntu 20.04
1 project | /r/HomelabOS | 19 Oct 2021

This shows that there's a patch available to fix a hyphen typo on the repo name. Looks like it was committed here: https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS/-/commit/4160a7d8ef09a4ee02606f61bc6e6b5ce45d7784
What more to host? Suggestions welcome...
9 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Sep 2021

HomelabOS If your looking for an all-in-one install for a homelab, check out HomelabOS (even if its just to steal some ideas, applications :P) https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS
not in gzip format
1 project | /r/HomelabOS | 3 Sep 2021

The https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS/-/archive/v0.8.4/HomelabOS-v0.8.4.tar.gz file is broken and can't be extracted, which leads the install script to fail with a "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format" error!

panel

Posts with mentions or reviews of panel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.

PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2024
Minecraft server
5 projects | /r/Proxmox | 10 Dec 2023
Game Server Managers 2024
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 13 Nov 2023

Website: Pterodactyl
What are some of your fav panels and why?
3 projects | /r/homelab | 23 Aug 2023

pterodactyl panel. Its amazing for any and all forums of game management.
SWAT 4 Dedicated Server running under Linux
3 projects | /r/SWAT4 | 2 Jul 2023

If anyone is interested, I wrote a Pterodactyl Panel egg for running a SWAT 4 server under Wine. If you want to check it out I have everything over at my repo. If you need instructions for setting up Pterodactyl you can find those here
MC Servers Control Panel (like falixnodes)
1 project | /r/Minecraft | 28 Jun 2023

https://pterodactyl.io/ & Multicraft are probably the two industry used ones.
Public Ip address
1 project | /r/homelab | 27 Jun 2023

As in, the installation documentation linked to here: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel ?
Trying to set up a home lab/database/game server PLEASE HELP!!!
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 27 Jun 2023

When it comes to gaming servers, go with a VM inside of Proxmox and run Pterodactyl.
Want a Server Launcher!
1 project | /r/PrismLauncher | 22 Jun 2023

I’ve used MC Server Soft to manage my local servers for testing in my pc. In my dedicated server I use Pterodactyl Panel.
Best Minecraft web wrapper/manager?
1 project | /r/unRAID | 21 Jun 2023

Also you have to pay a small one time fee for amp but if you'd like a free alternative. https://pterodactyl.io

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HomelabOS and panel you can also consider the following projects:

awesome-selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

LinuxGSM - The command-line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of Linux dedicated game servers.

yunohost - YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

pterodactyl-parker-eggs-install-script - A Repository for installing all of Parker's Egg's using a simple script.

xsrv - [mirror] Install and manage self-hosted services/applications, on your own server(s) - ansible collection and utilities

AMP - Issue tracking and documentation for AMP

Yacht - A web interface for managing docker containers with an emphasis on templating to provide 1 click deployments. Think of it like a decentralized app store for servers that anyone can make packages for.

pufferpanel - PufferPanel is an open source game server management panel, designed for both small networks and personal use

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

pterodactyl-installer - :bird: Unofficial installation scripts for Pterodactyl Panel

sovereign - A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more.

docker-minecraft-server - Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server that will automatically download selected version at startup