Game and app servers
Your game server at a glance
What each tab of a game or app server does, where the power buttons are, and how to read the overview page.
Last reviewed 2026-10-04
Open Services in the client area and click your server. You land on Overview.
The tabs
A game or app server has fourteen tabs down the left side.
| Tab | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Overview | Power buttons, live usage and shortcuts to everything else |
| Console | The live output, and a box to type commands |
| Files | Browse, edit, upload and download the server's files |
| Backups | Copies of every file, which you can restore |
| Startup | The settings the game reads when it launches |
| Schedules | Tasks that run on their own, such as a nightly restart |
| Network | Where players connect, and your spare ports |
| Databases | MySQL databases for plugins and mods |
| Plan | What your plan reserves for this server |
| Team | People who share the server with you |
| Settings | The server's name, file access and the runtime |
| Activity | Who did what, with times |
| Add-ons | Extra memory, ports, databases and backup slots |
| Billing | The renewal date, the amount and the invoices |
If someone shared the server with you rather than you buying it, you will not see Plan, Add-ons or Billing, and you will only see the tabs you were given permission for.
The header
Above the tabs is the server's name, the plan it runs on, the city it sits in and the address. On the right is the status, the price and the renewal date.
The name at the top is a label for your own list. Click it to change it. That is not the same as the server's own name, which lives on the Settings tab.
Power
The Server card on Overview holds four buttons.
- Start brings the server up. Available when it is offline.
- Restart stops it and starts it again. The normal way to pick up a configuration change.
- Stop asks the server to shut down properly, so it saves first. Use this one.
- Force stop cuts the process off at once. Anything it was holding in memory, such as recent world or player changes, is lost. You confirm it first.
Use Force stop only when the server has stopped responding and Stop has not worked.
The same four buttons, plus a command box, are on the Console tab, which is where you normally want to be when you start a server.
Live usage
The Live telemetry card shows the processor, memory, disk and network use while the page is open. It is read live and no history is kept, so these numbers go blank when you close the page. There is nothing to look back at later.
Addresses and ports
The Addresses card shows the address players connect to. The Network tab shows all your ports, lets you add one and lets you choose which one players use. See Ports.
While something is happening
A banner appears at the top while an operation runs, and the controls are locked until it finishes. The page refreshes itself.
If a service is suspended, every control goes read only until the outstanding invoice is settled. You can still look at everything.
What to read next
- Console and commands, the page you will spend most time on
- Backups, before you change anything that matters
- Sharing a server, if someone else helps you run it