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How does hypixel have their website and minecraft server on their root domain? (I would like to do something similar) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hypixel.net is both their website and mc server adress.

Is it just that https is on port 443 and minecraft is on port 25565?

And if that is the case, can i do something similar by making a reverse proxy have two seperate server blocks for the one domain, with different ports?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

DNS A record points to an IP destination. Ports are then handled by the requests for a specific port thing.

Example: A record for www.dududu.com points to IP 1.2.3.4, but different service ports are listening there to pick up different traffic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does that mean, to play minecraft on their server I would put "www.dududu.com" in my Minecraft client?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Host:Port

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Thanks, that's what i figured.

I got confused by so many game servers using seperate domains for the site and server, i assumed there was a good reason for that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Maybe most smaller ones have hosted both things separately, e.g.. with a dedicated minecraft server hoster and a common website-building+hosting service, and don't want to run an extra server for a proxy just for this.

With bigger servers (eg. Hypixel, 2b2t) or selfhosted servers (eg. mine), everything is on the same physical (or virtual) machine anyway and therefore everything has the same address, so you wouldn't even need a proxy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Flexibility. Maybe they get a hosting package that includes domain registration and hosting, but they can't put anything else under that name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Nope. Just ports and an A Record.