How to make a server for your own game?

Question

Game development

It is necessary to develop a simple application in order to play board games from a distance. The load will be small, done for a small group of friends and rather out of interest. How to organize the server and client communication with it? Can it be run on a home PC? I wrote a server on a flask, using the rest api, will it fit here? But even there I didn’t run further than the localhost. I write in Python and some Java.

Answer 1

Google zuntzu Perhaps a ready-made
one
will do, with templates for different desktops.
True, I don’t know how alive the project is, it used to be very active

Answer 2

At this stage (there are no requirements at all) you can take any server. tomcat. Jetty. But I heard that hi-load game developers use Netty. Although it's not as comfortable.