I'm thinking of an online service where I can pay to just have it all set up for me so me and my friends can join and race easily. It has a tonne of valuable features like saving disk by only installing server-side mod content, a permissions system allowing half-trusted friends to set up races and not break all the config, and great integration with Content Manager, Sol, Discord etc. The code is actively maintained and supported. Also, not everybody has the ability to open up the ports on their network for public access, so those who can't are SOL if they want to host a server to race with friends. This is the best way to manage AC servers, especially on Linux.
I know there are a bunch of tutorials online documenting how to get a server up and running on something like AWS, but it still requires a lot of steps. Is there any easy way to get your own private server up and running (without AC Server Manager)? With an easy way to add/setup mods/tracks/cars etc. I set up a server on my own computer, but it definitely wasn't seamless/easy, so wanted to ask y'all a few questions. I just downloaded the sim last week and have already put in wayyy too many hours.
