Start here
New to the panel? Read these three in order. Together they take you from a paid order to a server your friends can join, and they cover the two things that cause most first-week tickets: the wrong port, and a file upload that went to the wrong folder.
The path
Section titled “The path”- Getting started — what happens after payment, how the welcome email and password link work, and how to read the panel on your first login.
- Connecting to your server — where the address lives, how to paste it into each game, and which titles use a second port.
- SFTP and file uploads — FileZilla and WinSCP settings, the host key fingerprint, and where worlds and mods belong.
If you are in a hurry
Section titled “If you are in a hurry”- The panel is at panel.hostboi.com. Invoices and plan changes are at billing.hostboi.com.
- Your server address is on the server’s page in the panel, in
host:portform. - The first boot after ordering downloads the game. Give it a few minutes and watch the console.
- Still nothing after 15 minutes? Open a ticket — that is not normal.
- Backups and restores — do this before your first big change, not after.
- Switching games — the same server can run a different title.
- The free RAM boost — why some plans run with more RAM than you paid for.