The server panel#
Every game server you own has its own panel. When you open a brand new server for the first time, a short welcome wizard walks you through naming it, choosing what to run, setting up a friendly address, and installing it. You can skip the wizard whenever you like and set everything up yourself from the tabs instead.
Once setup is out of the way you land on Console, with a row of tabs running down the side. Each tab is one area of the server you can work in, and you move between them as you set things up and run your game. Console is the natural place to start, since it shows the server actually running, and you can pick up the other tabs as you need them.
What each tab does#
The tabs run down the side in this order, give or take the ones your game or plan hides. Here is the short version of each, with a link through to its full page where there is one.
- Console watches live server output, takes commands, and starts, stops, or restarts the server.
- Files lets you browse, edit, upload, and download your server files.
- Databases creates and manages databases for plugins and mods that need one.
- Schedules runs tasks like restarts and backups on a timer.
- Users invites other people and sets what each of them can do.
- Backups takes snapshots of your server so you can restore them later.
- Network shows your server address and lets you manage extra ports.
- Proxy Routes points incoming traffic at the right backend server, for proxy-based setups.
- Private Networks joins this server to a private network so your servers can talk to each other directly.
- Startup changes the server version and the startup options it boots with.
- Settings renames the server and holds other server-wide options, including SFTP details.
- Software switches the game or server type you are running.
- Activity keeps a log of recent actions on the server, so you can see who logged in or changed a setting and when.
- Health flags problems with the server, sorted worst-first, so you can spot trouble at a glance.
A few tabs only appear for the games that use them. There is no dedicated add-ons tab: you install individual mods and plugins through the Files manager, and you set up a full modpack through the Software wizard.
The tabs cover server management only. Your account itself, things like your profile, password, API keys, and SSH keys, lives in the account area of the panel rather than on any one server. Buying, renewing, and cancelling servers, along with invoices, happens in the billing portal at portal.pyro.host, which shares the same login.
Permissions and plan limits#
You might not see every tab, and that is normal. Two things decide what shows up: your permissions and your plan limits.
If someone invited you to their server as a subuser, you only see the tabs they granted you. Each tab maps to a permission, so a person without backup access has no Backups tab, and someone without file access has no Files tab. The owner controls all of this on the Users tab, and you can read the full list of what each permission covers on Users and permissions.
A tab can also be hidden when your plan gives you none of that resource. If your plan has no database slots, for instance, the Databases tab does not appear at all. The Network tab follows the same rule: it shows when your plan includes extra ports, or when your game supports a friendly subdomain on pyro.social or pyro.lgbt.