About Roostwire

Roostwire gives a game server a public address. You host the server yourself, on a machine you already own, at home or anywhere else. We publish an address near your players and carry their traffic to you. There is no port forwarding to set up, nothing to open on your router, and your own address is never shown to the people connecting.

What makes it different. Most tunnels rewrite every connection so it looks like it came from them, which breaks bans, anti-cheat, geo-lookup and your logs, because there is only one address left to see. Roostwire delivers each player to your server as themselves, so a ban lands on one person and your logs still mean something.

How you use it. Make an account, create a tunnel for your game, and run a small agent on the machine hosting the server. The agent dials out to us, so nothing needs opening. You hand your players the address we give you, and it stays the same through reboots and address changes at your end.

Signing in with Google

You can sign in to Roostwire with your Google account instead of creating a password. It is optional: an email address and a password work just as well.

What we ask Google for. Two things, and only these two: your email address, and Google's own account identifier for you. We do not ask for your name, your picture, your contacts, your calendar, your files, or anything in your mailbox, and we have no way to read them.

Why we ask for it. The email address names your account and is how we reach you about the service, exactly as it would be if you had typed it into our sign-up form. The account identifier is how we recognise you when you come back, which means changing the address on your Google account never loses your Roostwire account. We never see your Google password.

What we do not do with it. We do not sell it, we do not give it to advertisers or data brokers, and we do not use it to build a profile of you. You can stop using Google sign-in whenever you like by setting a password instead.

Roostwire's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

The rest in writing

Our privacy policy sets out everything we collect and why, including the Google sign-in data described above. Our terms of service cover the arrangement between us, and the rules page says what the service may and may not be used for.

Questions go to [email protected]. The service itself is at roostwire.com.