Does anyone have any experience with this AMP Game Server Control Panel?
Goal would be using on a server to run Minecraft, Valheim, Satisfactory and Ark SE.
I did some research regarding Control Panels. AMP looks like a popular older option
Especially on the open source side though I see Pterodactly more and more
It’s open source and docker based so it’s a good for for somebody a bit more technical.
And unlike AMP server I think pterodactyl only supports Linux.
Game server side this is the Supported game list from docs
If you want it on Windows / something more hands off AMP looks a good option.
For the an OpenSource alternative an the linux side I would go for Pterodactyl
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I use AMP and it’s pretty good at what it does. Decent documentation and support behind it as well. Pterodactyl works from my experience, but you are more on your own. You may not want to run everything in docker as I’ve seen performance impacts in some games, but it’s not hard to switch back and forth between them.
Biggest reason I chose it was that user management panel. Makes it easy to have a moderator or local admin for a server so if I’m not available one of my friends can easily pop on it. The support was also a big reason as I don’t always have the time to figure stuff out with opaque or nonexistent documentation.
I recommend running it on Debian(or a debain based distro at the minimum) for most stuff. I do have a windows instance for the handful of game servers that don’t run on Linux, but overall most stuff tends to be more stable and perform better within Debian from my experience.
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I use AMP but I’m not exactly a power user of AMP. Still, I hope my input is helpful.
The reason I ended up using AMP is because I had a limited amount of time to get a Minecraft server up and running, in time for my nephew’s birthday. Being a FOSS guy, my first port of call was Pterodactyl but I kept on running into issue after issue during the install process. Issues that I slowly but surely worked through but then when the server was supposedly up and running, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why the server would not show a green tick status symbol.
I started from scratch numerous times, over the space of several days but with every installation, there were problems… and often new problems. In all fairness, part of this was caused by my use case. I wanted both components of Pterodactyl on the same system, which would be accessed via a reverse proxy for users on LAN but I was trying to avoid using Docker. I know that this is a less than ideal approach… The issue was though, Pterodactyl’s documentation is rather poor, and the devs basically use Discord exclusivity for support… which sucks great big hairy parts of anatomy.
I could go on a big long rant about why Discord not only sucks for tech support but is also destroying part of the internet but I’ll save it.
What I’ll talk about instead is my experience with AMP.
As I said, I’m a FOSS guy but the reason I gave AMP a try is because not only does the developer use a proper forum for support but also, from what I could see, he was very active and helpful with his support. I thought that at the very least, I wouldn’t mind giving this guy a few quid. So I bought a basic AMP license and about ten or fifteen minutes after activating the license, I had a vanilla Minecraft server up and running.
AMP just works (most of the time). It’s not FOSS but it’s pretty damn good at what it does. It does take a little bit of getting used to using the WebUI for server config, rather than manually editing files. Tweaking the server also takes a bit of time but I doubt it takes much longer than other solutions. I also think that a few things could be made a little clearer for less technical users or users like myself, who have never used a game panel before. The documentation is very good, as is the support, and I would give AMP a thumbs up.
In terms of absolutely raw performance, I won’t comment because I’m running the server on a potato of a NUC system that’s 7 or 8 years old. I will say that I have run into a few performance issues but they could very well be due to hardware limitations, so it’d be unfair of me to criticise AMP without trying it on a better class of potato. There is still part of me that wants to migrate to Pterodactyl at some point. Once I find more capable hardware for the right price but until then, AMP is certainly worth the basic license fee, if only to avoid having to use Discord for tech support!
[NOTE] You can install AMP without activating it, so that you can test it’s functionality. It just won’t let you run any servers.
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