Thanks for the support! Trade-off: be potentially helpful if OP can’t find a turnkey solution, or stay upvoted, hmm…

Ah sweet you didn’t have to make something yourself

Haha, yeah. Thanks for taking the time to read the downvoted suggestion! I had been reading Hacker News and was feeling daring.

Both not a likely problem with any recent model and absolutely mitigated by using it in a VM with snapshots, which, besides being good practice, is a technology that I expect selfhosters to be familiar with anyway.

If there are objections to major models, (economic, resource, moral, etc), this application is achievable with a self-hosted Qwen or similar, although it will take additional nudging. That’s harder to get started with, though, which is why I didn’t suggest it. Self-hosted Gemma 4 I would absolutely recommend using in a VM, it really likes to erase projects and start over, in my experience.

I hope that helps!

I’m going to voice an incredibly contentious opinion here and suggest that this is a perfect situation for buying a month of Claude and vibe coding a piece of bespoke software for yourself with it.

Since you said FFXIV and WoW are one of your top of all time except for needing to play with randoms (the part I personally hate are the forced solo sections) then maybe look at Star Wars: The Old Republic. I like FFXIV and I just started SWTOR because I heard the stories were good.

Also apparently it’s fully voiced. And you can join you friends in their story mode sections (but if they are the same class you’ll have to repeat it for them, and they have to be the same faction [empire/Republic]). And I think you get scaled down to the world level so you don’t eat all their experience in the open world, but I’m not sure. I’m also not sure if there are required dungeons or not yet - I’m only level 13 but story quest level is 10. Free to play for the first two expansions.

They’re trolling you. It’s a board game that nobody has ever finished because it takes so long. :)

A little harder to enforce (‘no, judge, it says SHOULD, grant our civil suit please’) and a little easier to grant exceptions for than saying “must” (ah sorry customers, bigco had a bunch of money, and the rules don’t say MUST). It’s a well known wording choice in software, see every RFC ever.

It signals to me that Valve wanted an out for their rules when they wrote them because it’s an odd choice for such a well known word choice otherwise.

Unfortunately “should” and “must” have different legal meanings

I am not an expert but I’ve dabbled on this before some years ago. I’m taking a swing at this not knowing what Caddy is.

If you don’t need it exposed publicly, you just need a local DNS server like bind or dnsmasq set up somewhere on the local network, or edit the hosts files on your individual machines to hard code your local network service IPs for those machines. You don’t need a purchased domain name to advertise domains locally. It’s probably also possible for each machine to advertise its DNS without a central server, but it’s outside of my expertise.

Exposing port services with a domain name is a lot trickier but it’s doable in various ways. A cursory search says SRV records or setting up a proxy on your local network. It’s been a long time since I’ve attempted this. Optimally your host and client will just be configured to use the correct ports already, like port 80 for http and port 443 for https and whatever the default port is for your other services, so that you can use the same hostname per IP.

Since it’s all on your local network I wouldn’t bother with encryption/self signed certs, unless your risk profile includes randos on your network sniffing your services (spying on your network traffic while connected to your network).

I don’t have guides handy but maybe some of those keywords will help. If you’re not staunchly anti-ai, it’s a common enough scenario for something like chatgpt to guide you through.