Ashfall: Self-Hosted Tunnel Ingress & State Sync

Building a medieval fantasy 4X strategy game across time zones requires an environment where both of us can hammer on the live database schema and turn-resolution engine simultaneously.

We stood up the containerized development environment inside a Debian VM on the Dell OptiPlex 7000 Proxmox node, backed by ZFS storage and exposed securely via Cloudflare Tunnels without opening a single inbound firewall port.

With the Next.js App Router frontend talking cleanly to our relational PostgreSQL state layer, we are ready to focus on hex-grid pathfinding, faction resource ticks, and tactical combat resolution.