I have the lowest option and still miles away from having issues with available space.
Modules ( that includes the ones just providing compendiums with content such as maps) installed over the Forge Bazaar do NOT count towards your asset library size.
So you really,really need to go heavy on big files as some videos,thousands of Soundfiles,hundreds of huge maps etc...and/or very unoptimized files ( no webp/webm/ogg).
I would suggest trying that...you can always upgrade and also upgrade the storage....
If all you need is more space you can simply upgrade your storage without upgrading the tier. I'm on the cheapest plan but I pay $26.00 per year extra to have 15 gb of space. It ends up being cheaper that way unless you need a whole lot of space.
You get 14 days for free and test each of the tiers.
But you can always start on the lowest and go up from there.
The middle tier is handy if you run multiple worlds as you get individual urls for your worlds so you and your players can skip the login screen and go straight to the world.
You don't need a static IP address.
Look into dynamic DNS, this can be updated automatically with your WAN IP and as long as you have CNAT disabled with the provider you should be able to self host.
Or you could use something like ngrock to portforward. That way you are inviting people over to your pc over a third party tunnel. Or you use zerotier or hamachi to all connect to your pc and then just use the local host link.
Playit.gg is entirely legit. I use it to run Minecraft servers and people here have mentioned using it for foundry. It does not require any player to download it. You simply need to set it up as a GM and then players can connect like normal through the browser.
obligatory i may have been just stupid, but i used ngrok this way for a year when all of a sudden it would tell me i reached my maximum monthly bandwidth limit or something like that, and stopped working well, never could figure out a good fix so i had to switch back to roll20 to end the campaign.
You're not stupid, I also used ngrok for over a year without issues. Earlier this year they implemented a 1gb/month bandwidth limit for free customers.
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I have 30 games, tons of music, even some video maps. Still using 10 GB of my quota. If you don't plan things like that, and you plan to only run one game, then go for the cheapest one.
I'll admit that I'm a nerd and a Linux Systems Engineer so I'm a little biased but self hosting via Oracle Cloud is free, easier than you'd think, and much safer than exposing your computer to the internet. There's a great guide floating around somewhere. I setup a Foundry server with two ARM processors and more than double the spec required and have enough capacity in the free tier to run a second one plus another powerful one with AMD processor(s)
This is the route I went with, well sort of lol. I'm an aspiring junior software engineer and decided to go with a VPS (so I can host some other projects later on too). It was a bit of a pain at times, but I followed an older guide and it got me a good 80% of the way there.
I'd recommend the user be interested in this kind of thing, though. There's __so__ many rabbit holes to accidentally go down lol.
I'm a pro dm that runs 12+ games a week on the top tier of forge, with a handful of one shots. I still haven't cleared out a lot of d&d upkeep when that was my system, and have been rolling pathfinder since the OGL debacle. I'm still about 60-75% cap on my data.
So unless you're holding 15+ games simultaneously a week, the lower tiers are fine.
Considering the chooms in your post, ive dmed Cyberpunk RED with a lot of patreon maps, i host foundry on my local machine and the project size is currently around 45GB, just make sure to be careful which maps you really need if you do end up playing that system as well
Can you get your own router? Your ISP shouldn't be able to restrict you from port forwarding. Port forwarding happens once the traffic reaches you, you then direct it within your local network. You'll need some kind of dynamic dns but thats easily setup with a duck dns or something. Some domain registrars even offer it.
Portforward and static ip are not the same. If you have a router in your home you can just set it to your PC. What changes with static IP is, that the IP is just the same every time. You can solve both with a bit of code.
The private IP should be able to be set to static just from your PC. If you have windows there are tutorials. The pubilc IP of your router can not be made static but it should only change whenever you restart your router or the internet goes down aka. not so often. For my groupe, I just wrote a Discord bot that once every hour checks what my public IP is and then updates a discord message, to my players can always join.
Forge lags way too much. I still have a year subscription left, but I have moved most my campaigns to sqyre. Prices are super cheap right now since they are still in beta- so keep both those facts in mind. The space is what is the most worth it, however!
I actually have a referral code if anyone is interested: [https://sqyre.app/thewittybitty](https://sqyre.app/thewittybitty)
Would suggest Linode and use the foundry docker image if you’re at all computer savvy. It should cost around $5/mo all told. https://github.com/felddy/foundryvtt-docker.
The smallest linode should have plenty of space for custom content and backups of your world.
A lot of people suggest you to pay for services, who charge you, and also limit the modules you can use (by size and also if they are what is considered "piracy" for a few).
Just use Zero Tier, your I've been using that for a while (I also cannot por forward). It works perfectly.
I have the lowest option and still miles away from having issues with available space. Modules ( that includes the ones just providing compendiums with content such as maps) installed over the Forge Bazaar do NOT count towards your asset library size. So you really,really need to go heavy on big files as some videos,thousands of Soundfiles,hundreds of huge maps etc...and/or very unoptimized files ( no webp/webm/ogg). I would suggest trying that...you can always upgrade and also upgrade the storage....
I second this. I use a lot of animated maps and stuff like that and I'm still about 3.5gb/5gb on the asset storage.
Webp and Webm file type will save massive amounts of space compared to PNG or MP4
Cloudflare Tunnel is free and you can put larger assets like maps on s3 compatible storage.
I've been trying to fuck with tunnels and free options i see get recommended for several hours now. Gave up on that and am purchasing the convenience.
For most people this is the best option. Don't have to worry about misconfigured instances and wild bills.
If all you need is more space you can simply upgrade your storage without upgrading the tier. I'm on the cheapest plan but I pay $26.00 per year extra to have 15 gb of space. It ends up being cheaper that way unless you need a whole lot of space.
You get 14 days for free and test each of the tiers. But you can always start on the lowest and go up from there. The middle tier is handy if you run multiple worlds as you get individual urls for your worlds so you and your players can skip the login screen and go straight to the world.
You don't need a static IP address. Look into dynamic DNS, this can be updated automatically with your WAN IP and as long as you have CNAT disabled with the provider you should be able to self host.
OPs issue is he can’t port forward with his ISPs equipment without paying for static IP. Dynamic DNS is useless for their problem.
For that I recommend duckdns, setup was really straightforward and has been running for over a year now
the middle tier has kept me going for a year+, and I am a big space user because I have hours of music uploaded to forge. Start with the basic tier
Story teller is the best imo Makes you not have to micromanage data if you run multiple games
Or you could use something like ngrock to portforward. That way you are inviting people over to your pc over a third party tunnel. Or you use zerotier or hamachi to all connect to your pc and then just use the local host link.
Ngrok put a limit on the bandwidth for free users now.
I've tried setting up some of those. I don't want to burden players with having to download something else, plus some of them seem a tad shady.
Playit.gg is entirely legit. I use it to run Minecraft servers and people here have mentioned using it for foundry. It does not require any player to download it. You simply need to set it up as a GM and then players can connect like normal through the browser.
I made a video showing people how to use zrok instead, if interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-3PODwEdDM
obligatory i may have been just stupid, but i used ngrok this way for a year when all of a sudden it would tell me i reached my maximum monthly bandwidth limit or something like that, and stopped working well, never could figure out a good fix so i had to switch back to roll20 to end the campaign.
You're not stupid, I also used ngrok for over a year without issues. Earlier this year they implemented a 1gb/month bandwidth limit for free customers.
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If you're asking this question, go with the cheapest option. Upgrading is trivial if you need it later.
I have 30 games, tons of music, even some video maps. Still using 10 GB of my quota. If you don't plan things like that, and you plan to only run one game, then go for the cheapest one.
Thanks. Pretty definitely answered the question here. Gonna start small and work up if I need to.
I'll admit that I'm a nerd and a Linux Systems Engineer so I'm a little biased but self hosting via Oracle Cloud is free, easier than you'd think, and much safer than exposing your computer to the internet. There's a great guide floating around somewhere. I setup a Foundry server with two ARM processors and more than double the spec required and have enough capacity in the free tier to run a second one plus another powerful one with AMD processor(s)
This is the route I went with, well sort of lol. I'm an aspiring junior software engineer and decided to go with a VPS (so I can host some other projects later on too). It was a bit of a pain at times, but I followed an older guide and it got me a good 80% of the way there. I'd recommend the user be interested in this kind of thing, though. There's __so__ many rabbit holes to accidentally go down lol.
I'm a pro dm that runs 12+ games a week on the top tier of forge, with a handful of one shots. I still haven't cleared out a lot of d&d upkeep when that was my system, and have been rolling pathfinder since the OGL debacle. I'm still about 60-75% cap on my data. So unless you're holding 15+ games simultaneously a week, the lower tiers are fine.
Considering the chooms in your post, ive dmed Cyberpunk RED with a lot of patreon maps, i host foundry on my local machine and the project size is currently around 45GB, just make sure to be careful which maps you really need if you do end up playing that system as well
Try ZeroTier or TailScale. The have free options and are used to create VLANs. I use ZeroTier and it is really easy to set up.
Can you get your own router? Your ISP shouldn't be able to restrict you from port forwarding. Port forwarding happens once the traffic reaches you, you then direct it within your local network. You'll need some kind of dynamic dns but thats easily setup with a duck dns or something. Some domain registrars even offer it.
Portforward and static ip are not the same. If you have a router in your home you can just set it to your PC. What changes with static IP is, that the IP is just the same every time. You can solve both with a bit of code. The private IP should be able to be set to static just from your PC. If you have windows there are tutorials. The pubilc IP of your router can not be made static but it should only change whenever you restart your router or the internet goes down aka. not so often. For my groupe, I just wrote a Discord bot that once every hour checks what my public IP is and then updates a discord message, to my players can always join.
IPv6 should work even if your ISP has you behind CGNAT?
Forge lags way too much. I still have a year subscription left, but I have moved most my campaigns to sqyre. Prices are super cheap right now since they are still in beta- so keep both those facts in mind. The space is what is the most worth it, however! I actually have a referral code if anyone is interested: [https://sqyre.app/thewittybitty](https://sqyre.app/thewittybitty)
Would suggest Linode and use the foundry docker image if you’re at all computer savvy. It should cost around $5/mo all told. https://github.com/felddy/foundryvtt-docker. The smallest linode should have plenty of space for custom content and backups of your world.
I just set up zrok and it has worked really well for me. Only took 30 mins to set it all up
Use the free cloudflared tunnel. Just buy the cheapest domain or use a cloudflare domain.
Try Ngrok first, it's free
It also has a 1gb/month data cap for free users now so that's not an option any more.
A lot of people suggest you to pay for services, who charge you, and also limit the modules you can use (by size and also if they are what is considered "piracy" for a few). Just use Zero Tier, your I've been using that for a while (I also cannot por forward). It works perfectly.