Your game servers, your friends' hands.

GameKeepr is a self-hosted portal for the game servers on your own machine. Friends sign in, see who is playing, and restart a server when a game update lands — without touching Unraid, SSH, or anything else on the box.

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The Servers page: full-picture cards per game server

Restarts that tell the truth

A restart is verified in two stages — the container came back, then the game itself answered. Per-game startup times, a cooldown that stops restart-hammering, and an activity feed everyone can read.

Any server Steam carries

Deploy from Unraid's Community Applications, or pick any of ~580 dedicated servers on Steam — GameKeepr composes the container itself on Valve's official steamcmd image, with the start command from Steam's own app info, shown before anything exists.

Schedules with manners

Nightly restarts that ask the game if anyone is playing first, never turn a deliberately stopped server back on, and skip missed runs instead of firing them late.

Backups of what matters

The world and its settings — not the reinstallable gigabytes. Restores only while stopped, always preceded by a safety copy, applied as an overlay.

Mods, checked honestly

Repository installs with hash verification, archive-safety judging and optional malware scanning; Steam Workshop declarations for the games that fetch their own. No report ever says "safe" — it says what was checked.

Three roles, per-server exceptions

Members restart, operators run servers, the owner runs the platform. Any user can be made operator of one server, member on another, or shown nothing at all — hidden means hidden.

The dashboard — The command centre: is anything wrong?

The Steam catalogue — Every dedicated server on Steam, recognised games first.

Logs and console — Live logs, with a console that types at the game.

Run it

mkdir gamekeepr && cd gamekeepr
curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KenGoossens/Gamekeep/main/docker-compose.yml
curl -Lo .env https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KenGoossens/Gamekeep/main/.env.example
# edit .env: PUBLIC_URL, SESSION_SECRET, TZ
docker compose up -d

On Unraid it is one search away: Apps → “GameKeepr” → Install — GameKeepr is in Community Applications.

First boot prints a one-time setup token in the container log; open the portal and create the owner account with it. The setup guide walks through the rest — including the one honest warning: the portal holds the Docker socket, and the security model explains what that means and what is done about it.