Sign in to the control panel at panel.chicagoservers.co and click a server under Your servers. The top of its page has everything you need day to day.
- Start, Restart and Stop: Stop saves the world first and shuts the game down properly. If the server is frozen and won't stop, a Kill button appears, which ends it without saving.
- The address (IP and port): click it to copy it. This is what players connect to.
- CPU, memory and players: what the server uses right now. CPU is in cores (1.00 means one full core busy).
- Who's on: click it to see the players online.
- The Steam update bar (Steam games): whether a game update is out, Update now, Validate and the Branch button. See How to update your server and switch game versions.
The console
The Console tab shows the server's output as it runs. Type a command at the bottom and press Send: it goes straight to the server, so you don't need an RCON tool. The text under the box gives examples of commands for your game.
The tabs
- Files: your server's files, and its SFTP login.
- Startup: the server's name, map, passwords and other start settings.
- Configs: the game's config files, as fields or as text.
- Backups, Databases, Schedules, Analytics and Troubleshoot.
- Game tabs such as Mods, Plugins, Whitelist, Cluster or Wiper, for the games that have them.
- Settings: the server's name in the panel, keep-alive, file checks and reinstalling.
Keep-alive (Settings tab): every 5 minutes the panel checks that your server answers. If it froze or crashed, it's restarted for you. Stopping it from the panel keeps it stopped.
Need help? Open a support ticket and we'll take a look.