Pterodactyl is my favorite way to manage self-hosted game servers, and no other tool comes close

When it comes to game servers, self-hosting them is always the best option by far when it comes to performance and cost. Many server providers are expensive for what you get, and the model that many of these companies use means that your server is almost certainly running in a virtual environment, sharing resources with countless other users, too. This can mean sudden lag spikes or even crashes in extreme cases, and for as long as I can remember, I've been self-hosting my own game servers and even a TeamSpeak server for nearly a decade at this point to get around those exact issues.