Managing servers

Create game servers in the FeatherPanel admin area, set resource and feature limits, edit startup, suspend or warn owners, and soft or hard delete servers.

Admin area, Servers lists every game server with its owner, node, status and resources. Each row has View details, Edit server, Transfer server and Delete server. Before you can create a server you need a game location and node and at least one spell.

Creating a server

Create Server is a six-step wizard:

1. Owner & Core Details. Name, owner, description.
2. Location & Resources. Location, node and primary allocation.
3. Application Setup. Realm, spell and Docker image. The spell’s starred default image is preselected, and its variables appear with their defaults.
4. Resource Limits. Memory, swap, disk, CPU and IO (below).
5. Feature Limits. How many databases, allocations and backups the owner may create.
6. Review & Create.

“Use defaults and review” skips steps 4 and 5 with the default values. You can still change them on the review step.

Editing a server

Resource values

Backup retention

The backup limit sets how many backups a server may keep; 0 disables backups. Retention can inherit the panel default (Settings, Servers), use a hard limit that blocks new backups when full, or FIFO rolling, which removes the oldest unlocked backup so scheduled backups keep running.

Startup

The startup command can use {{SERVER_MEMORY}}, {{SERVER_IP}}, {{SERVER_PORT}} and the spell’s variables. Custom environment variables are synced to Wings without a transfer, and each can be encrypted so it is hidden after saving.

Actions

• Docker Runtime. Shows whether Wings sees the container as healthy. Force Reconcile clears stale Docker state and a stuck power lock and marks the server offline so it can be started again.
• Suspend. Needs a reason for staff. The owner is emailed and loses access until you unsuspend.
• Send Warning. Puts a warning in the panel for the owner, for example about high CPU use, and can email them.
• Transfer server. See Server transfers.
• Soft Delete removes the server through Wings, files included. Hard Delete only removes it from the panel and leaves its files on the node. Use it when the node is gone for good.

API