How to schedule automatic restarts, messages, backups and updates

The Schedules tab runs tasks on your server at set times: a daily restart with a warning in chat first, a backup, a game update or a wipe.

1. Sign in to the control panel at panel.chicagoservers.co, open your server and open the Schedules tab.
2. Under Add a scheduled task, give the task a name and choose When: every day, on days of the week, once a month, every few hours, or once. Times are Chicago time.
3. Add the Steps, in order. For a restart with a warning:
   • Send console commands: a message to players, for example say The server restarts in 5 minutes (the right command depends on your game).
   • Wait: 5 minutes.
   • Restart the server.
4. Click Add task.

Some games have no server console (Valheim, Vein, Enshrouded, Satisfactory and Windrose), so a console message does nothing there. Use just the Restart the server step.

Other steps are Start or Stop the server, Make a backup, Update the game (Steam) (Update the game on games that aren't on Steam), Install a game update (such as a Rust wipe or uMod), Update Workshop mods (ARK) and Reinstall the server. Tick When no one is online on a step to wait up to an hour for the server to empty; the run is skipped if it doesn't.

Your tasks are listed on the same tab, with Run now, Edit, Turn off and Delete.

Need help? Open a support ticket and we'll take a look.