Your server

Once the server is running, most of what you do falls into two buckets: keeping a copy you can go back to, and changing what the server runs.

In this section

• Backups and restores — how many slots your plan includes, setting up automatic backups on a schedule, and how to take, download and restore one.
• Switching games — change the game on the same plan with the Egg Changer, and the startup settings a switch resets.
• Game keys and tokens — add a Garry’s Mod Steam token or a BeamMP AuthKey in Startup.

Habits worth having

• Back up before you change something you cannot easily undo — a game switch, a modpack, a world upload, a plan change.
• Read the console after every restart. The game says what is wrong far more often than the panel does.
• Keep large uploads off the browser file manager. SFTP resumes; a browser tab does not.

Related

• Upgrading or downgrading — when the server, not the game, is the thing that needs to change.
• Getting help — what to include when the console output is not enough.