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This looks really cool!

Would you consider sharing a VM image so we could host these ourselves?

The easiest way would be to go to the source at https://github.com/white-rabbit-dfplex/dfplex, check out the code, and using Docker, run:

docker build --pull --rm -f "Dockerfile" -t dfplex:latest "."
docker run --security-opt seccomp=unconfined --rm -it -p 1234:1234 -p 5000:5000 -p 8000:8000/tcp dfplex:latest
However, the specifics of Multidorf are a little more complex, for security purposes – for example, the HTTP and Chat servers are disabled, and the websocket server (:1234) is only accessible through an Edge Gateway service I wrote, which also allows me to enforce password protection. But for personal use, you should be fine just running the Docker container on a server that you own.

^ OP of the above reddit post here. I'll make a separate thread (edit: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=178441.0), but I suppose this is a good enough spot to address some questions.

I don't know that I've "solved" any of the problems with DFPlex in a way that helps anyone that isn't willing to set up multiple levels of infrastructure in front of their DFPlex server . For example, I added password protection by shimming all connections through a websocket edge service that performs validation of a single-use authorization token in order to gate access to the DFPlex server, which is itself running in a VPC that is not accessible to the public internet. This also solves the problem of exposing the underlying filesystem -- I've disabled the http server on the DFPlex instances and just use a single static webserver for https://play.multidorf.com/demo. Definitely want to contribute my UI changes to https://github.com/Ankoku/df-webfort upstream (the ones that allow changing the tileset/textset via a dropdown instead of url params) although those are obviously quite basic.