How Trunkline works

Each node is a real box on your desk or rack, wired into a private mesh. No shared hosts, no mystery virtualization, no port-forwarding roulette.

Step 1

Pick your node

Choose a box with real cores and proper cooling. We pre-load the OS, Pterodactyl panel, and pre-connected to the Trunkline headscale network.

Step 2

Box phones home

Plug it into any half-decent ISP. The node joins your private Trunkline network over an encrypted tunnel — no port forwarding, no static IP drama.

Step 3

Point Minecraft and go

You get a clean address + port for each server. Your friends just connect — no VPN clients, no extra accounts, no "just install an app".

Control plane in the cloud, hardware in your house

The panel and API live in our cloud, fronted by a hardened proxy. Your node tunnels back over an encrypted overlay network. Game traffic rides that private path instead of raw exposure on your home WAN.

Practically, that means:

  • No port forwarding on your router
  • No guessing which IP changed this week
  • Your node still works if you move it between ISPs

At a glance

• Players ⟶ trunkline.net ⟶ proxy • proxy ⟶ encrypted tunnel ⟶ your node • Node runs your Minecraft servers on real metal