Game servers

Game servers and Discord bots run on our game panel, a separate site made for them. You run the server there: its console, files, backups, power and settings.

The portal holds your account and the billing, and a short page for each server with its address and price. It opens the panel for you, signed in.

Most people start with these:

Game servers at Darkless: what lives in the portal and what lives on the panel.
Open the game panel: get to the panel from the portal, signed in.
Billing for game servers: pay, turn on auto-pay or cancel.

Once you're on the panel:

Upload files over SFTP: worlds, plugins and mods from your computer.
Make Minecraft run smoother: find what's slowing it down, and fix it.
Host a Discord bot: get your bot's code running and keep its token safe.

Get started

Game servers at Darkless What lives in the portal, what lives on the game panel, and where to find your server.Open the game panel Get to the panel from the portal, signed in for you, and what to do when it asks you to sign in yourself.Billing for game servers Where game server invoices live, and how to pay, turn on auto-pay or cancel from the server's page in the portal.

Use the game panel

A tour of the game panel What each tab on your server's panel page is for, so you know where to look before you need it.Upload files over SFTP Move worlds, modpacks, plugins and bot code to and from your server with FileZilla, WinSCP, Cyberduck or a terminal.Back up and restore Take a backup before anything risky, download a copy to keep, and put the server back the way it was in one press.Schedule restarts and backups Have the panel warn your players, take a backup and restart the server every night, without you being there.Give a friend access to your server Let someone help run your server with their own login, choosing exactly what they can touch, and take it away again.

Minecraft

Change the Minecraft version or install a modpack Move to another Minecraft version or server type, pick the right Java, and put a modpack from CurseForge or Modrinth on your server.Plugins, mods, whitelist and ops Add plugins or mods, keep strangers out with a whitelist, make yourself an operator, and the server.properties settings worth knowing.Make Minecraft run smoother What TPS and MSPT mean, how to find what is causing lag, and the settings that fix most of it. More memory is rarely the answer.

Discord bots

Host a Discord bot Put your bot's code on the panel, keep its token secret, start it, read its logs, and keep it online. For Node.js and Python bots.

Can't find it?

Open a ticket from the portal. A person who can see your servers answers it.

Open a ticket