I got tired of being the "Minecraft server guy" for friends, so I built this

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I’ve been running Minecraft servers for a while and kept running into the same issues:

I’m the "tech guy" in my friend/family circle, so whenever someone wants a Minecraft server, it ends up on my root server.

The problem was never running one server - it was managing multiple:

• different friend groups
• different modpacks
• people asking me to restart / install stuff
• no safe way to give them access without giving too much access

I didn’t want to:

• manually manage everything forever
• or give them SSH and hope nothing breaks

So I built aethera-next.

It’s a self-hosted control panel where I can:

• create a "project" per friend group
• assign users to that project
• define a template (e.g. max RAM)
• let them create and manage their own servers

From there they can:

• start/stop servers
• view live console + send commands
• install mods
• manage files
• trigger backups

And I don’t have to babysit everything anymore.

It runs fully on Docker and sets itself up with:

./run.sh up

No SaaS, fully open source.

I mainly built this for my own setup, but I’m curious how others handle this - especially if you’re hosting servers for multiple groups.

Feedback welcome

homepage: https://getaethera.de
github (src code): https://github.com/jaameypr/aethera-next

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