# Features

> Every FeatherPanel feature, taken from the code - game servers on Wings, Proxmox VDS, WebSpaces on Quilld, SSO, tickets, plugins, API and more.

Source: https://featherpanel.com/docs/getting-started/features/

This page lists what FeatherPanel does, grouped by area. Each item links to the guide that explains it. Everything here is
in the code of the panel, FeatherWings or FeatherQuilld today; nothing is a roadmap item.

FeatherPanel has three hosting **modules**. Each can be switched off in **Admin → Settings → Modules**
(`module_game_enabled`, `module_vds_enabled`, `module_web_enabled`), which hides its pages, routes in the sidebar and
search, and its MCP tools.

## Game servers (FeatherWings)

| Feature | What you get |
|---------|--------------|
| Console | Live console over a websocket, command input, power actions (start, stop, restart, kill), install logs, CPU, memory and disk graphs with a stored resource history, and player counts and names for supported games. |
| File manager | Browse, edit, upload, download (files and whole folders), copy, rename, change permissions, compress and extract archives, browse inside archives, search, pull a file from a URL, file hashes, and a trash bin with retention and size limits. |
| File sharing | Share a file through a temporary upload link (temp uploads, up to 15 GB anonymous or 30 GB with a token). |
| Databases | Per-server MySQL/MariaDB databases on database hosts that are global or bound to one node, with SQL export and import and phpMyAdmin access. |
| Backups | Create, lock, restore, download and delete backups. Retention is a hard limit or FIFO rolling, with per-server overrides. Admins can add scheduled backup policies for many servers. |
| Schedules | Cron-style schedules with tasks: power, command, backup (files or database), and container shell (off by default). |
| Lifecycle hooks | Pipelines that run on `pre_start`, `post_start`, `pre_stop`, `post_stop` and `server_crash`. Steps: Discord webhook, container command, container shell, backup, HTTP request and sleep. |
| Subusers | Invite users to a server with 50 fine-grained permission nodes. |
| Network | Allocations (with optional user self-selection), a per-server firewall, reverse proxy domains with automatic SSL, Cloudflare subdomains with SRV records, and FastDL for Source games. |
| Startup | Edit startup variables, choose a Docker image from the spell (or a custom one if allowed), change the spell within or across realms if allowed. |
| Server import | Pull files from a remote SFTP or FTP server into a stopped server. |
| Auto start | Servers can start automatically when their node reconnects after a reboot, staggered so a node does not start everything at once. |
| Expiry | Servers and VDS instances can have an expiry date and are suspended automatically when it passes. |
| Bulk actions | Start, stop, restart, kill or reinstall many servers at once from the server list. |
| Transfers | Admins move one server, or all servers of a node (mass transfer), to another node. |
| Spells and realms | Spells (eggs) grouped in realms (nests). Import Pterodactyl eggs, and browse spells from the FeatherCloud marketplace. |
| FeatherZeroTrust | Scans server files for known malicious hashes on a schedule. |

Read the [user guide for servers](https://featherpanel.com/docs/user/servers/console) and the [admin guide for servers](https://featherpanel.com/docs/admin/servers).

## VDS (Proxmox VE)

| Feature | What you get |
|---------|--------------|
| VM and LXC instances | Create QEMU/KVM virtual machines (with cloud-init) or LXC containers from templates and plans on Proxmox nodes. Creation runs in the background on the async runner. |
| Console | Browser VNC console through the panel. |
| Power and reinstall | Start, stop, reboot, reinstall from a template, with task progress. |
| ISO media | Fetch an ISO from a URL or upload one, mount and unmount it. |
| Hardware and network | QEMU hardware view, network and DNS settings. |
| Backups | Create, restore and delete instance backups with progress polling. |
| Subusers | Share a VDS with other users. |

See [VDS for admins](https://featherpanel.com/docs/admin/vds) and [VDS for users](https://featherpanel.com/docs/user/vds).

## Web hosting (FeatherQuilld)

| Feature | What you get |
|---------|--------------|
| WebSpaces | Isolated hosting accounts on web nodes, created from **hosting packages** (disk, CPU, memory and database limits) and **WebPlates** (templates). |
| Domains and SSL | Domains, SSL certificates and proxy logs. |
| One-click apps | WordPress (with staging, promote, updates, plugins and auto-update), Laravel, Ghost, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, Node.js and Python starters, and Git deploy with a webhook and deploy key. |
| PHP | PHP `ini` settings and extensions per WebSpace, plus Redis. |
| Files | File manager, trash, archives, search and upload/download links. SFTP accounts and FTP. |
| Databases | Per-WebSpace databases. |
| Mail | Mailboxes and webmail, backed by docker-mailserver or mailcow on the web node. |
| DNS | DNS zones on PowerDNS, with a DNS check and provisioning. |
| Security | A per-WebSpace WAF (deny lists for IPs and paths) and malware scans. |
| Operations | Backups, cron schedules, logs, analytics, activity and subusers. |

See [Web hosting for admins](https://featherpanel.com/docs/admin/web-hosting) and [WebSpaces for users](https://featherpanel.com/docs/user/webspaces).

## Accounts and sign-in

- Local accounts with registration (on or off), e-mail verification and device-based registration limits.
- Two-factor authentication (TOTP), **passkeys**, passwordless **e-mail login codes** and **QR code login** from a phone
  that is already signed in.
- **Discord** login, any number of **OIDC** providers and **LDAP** providers, plus admin-generated **SSO login tokens**.
- Captcha: Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, Google reCAPTCHA v2 and v3, Friendly Captcha and reForge Captcha.
- **AbuseIPDB** checks on registration and user IP scans, blocked IPs and blocked e-mail domains.
- Session management, SSH keys for SFTP, personal API keys, user data export and self-service account deletion
  (instant, delayed or after services expire).
- Privacy mode that masks IPs, hosts, e-mails and keys in the UI.

See [Authentication](https://featherpanel.com/docs/admin/authentication) and [Account](https://featherpanel.com/docs/user/account).

## Roles and permissions

Roles carry admin permission nodes (`admin.users.list`, `admin.nodes.view` and so on). Server, VDS and WebSpace subusers
have their own permission sets. The full list is in the [permissions reference](https://featherpanel.com/docs/reference/permissions).

## Support and communication

- **Tickets** with categories, priorities, statuses, attachments and a per-user open ticket limit.
- **Knowledgebase** with categories, tags and attachments, optionally public.
- **Status page** for nodes and servers, optionally public and embeddable.
- **Notifications** (banners) and a per-user **inbox**, **mail templates** and SMTP delivery through the async runner.
- **Panel AI** chatbot for users (providers: built-in basic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, OpenAI or compatible, Ollama, xAI
  Grok and Perplexity).

## Administration

- Dashboard with node, server and ticket overviews, analytics and an audit log.
- Locations, nodes, allocations, mounts, database hosts and Docker images.
- Rate limits per route (opt-in), API keys, mail and DNS hosts for web nodes.
- **Storage Sense** to prune old rows from history tables.
- Panel database snapshots, Wings node backups and backup schedules.
- Translations editor, branding (logos, accent colours, backgrounds, themes, login page layout), custom CSS and JS, PWA
  install, SEO settings.
- A built-in **updates** page and a setup wizard on first launch.
- The **Pterodactyl importer** page, which points to the migration agent.

## Extending FeatherPanel

- **Plugins** (`.fpa` packages) with PHP event listeners for 465 events, routes, cron jobs (`Cron/`), CLI commands
  (`Commands/`), database migrations (`Migrations/`), sidebar pages and dashboard widgets. See [Plugins](https://featherpanel.com/docs/plugins).
- **Themes and UI packs** that plugins ship and admins pick as defaults.
- **FeatherCloud marketplace** for plugins, spells and translations.
- **REST API** with personal API keys, OAuth2 apps (authorization code and device flow) and a Calagopus-compatible client
  API. See [API](https://featherpanel.com/docs/api).
- **MCP server** so AI assistants (Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients) can manage servers, files, VDS and WebSpaces
  with the user's own permissions. See [MCP server](https://featherpanel.com/docs/panel/mcp-server).
- **FeatherCli**, a terminal client for the API. See [FeatherCli](https://featherpanel.com/docs/cli/feathercli).

## Daemon features

FeatherWings adds features on top of Pterodactyl Wings, such as modules, a node firewall, FastDL, server import, trash,
host diagnostics and node backups. See [FeatherWings](https://featherpanel.com/docs/wings).

FeatherQuilld is new: it has no Pterodactyl equivalent. See [FeatherQuilld](https://featherpanel.com/docs/quilld).

## Performance

FeatherPanel's backend runs in FrankenPHP worker mode by default. Measured numbers live on the [benchmarks page](https://featherpanel.com/benchmarks)
instead of in these docs, so they stay current.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I turn off the parts of FeatherPanel I do not need?

Yes. The settings module_game_enabled, module_vds_enabled and module_web_enabled switch the game server, Proxmox VDS and web hosting modules on or off. Disabled modules disappear from the sidebar, search and the MCP tool list.

### Does FeatherPanel support Pterodactyl eggs?

Yes. Eggs are called spells and nests are called realms. Admins can import a Pterodactyl egg as a spell, and the FeatherCli migration tool moves locations, nests, eggs, nodes, allocations, users, servers, databases, backups, schedules and subusers from a Pterodactyl install.