Knowledge Base

Create an API key in your panel account and use it to start, stop and restart the server, send commands and handle files from a script. Experimental feature, not supported by the team.

Learn how to create manual and automatic backups of your world, and how to download, upload and restore backup files from the panel.

Learn how to control who can join your server with the whitelist, and how to ban, kick and grant administrator permissions (OP) to players.

Learn how to use the panel's Schedules tab to automate restarts, backups, commands and other tasks on your server.

Learn how to let Minecraft Bedrock players (mobile, console) join your Java server using the Geyser and Floodgate plugins.

A guide to identifying and fixing crashes caused by incompatible mods, missing dependencies or conflicts between mods on your server.

Learn how to install add-ons on your Bedrock server, organizing the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack folders correctly and activating them in the world.

Step by step from payment to a running VPS: where the Open Control Panel button is in the client area, how to choose the operating system in the VirtFusion panel and where your access credentials arrive.

How to connect to your Windows Server VPS using Remote Desktop from Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iPhone — and what to do when the connection is refused.

How to connect via SSH to your VPS running Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux from Windows, macOS and Linux, how to swap the password for a key and what to do when the connection fails.

The real difference between RedHosting's two VPS lines: clock speed versus core count, DDR5 versus DDR4 ECC, price per plan and which one suits each type of application.

How to rebuild your VPS from scratch in the VirtFusion panel, switch Linux distributions or move to Windows Server, and what to back up before hitting the button.

The minimum to do in the first hours of a new VPS: update the system, create an unprivileged user, swap the password for an SSH key and close ports that don't need to be open.

The three ways into RedHosting's cPanel — through the client area, the direct address and your domain — and what to do when the password doesn't work.

How to create email accounts on your own domain in cPanel, use webmail and set them up on your phone, Outlook and Gmail with the right IMAP and SMTP settings.

How to publish your website's files on your hosting using cPanel's File Manager, exactly where they should go and why the start file must be called index.

How to issue your RedHosting hosting's free SSL certificate in cPanel, force the site to open over HTTPS and fix the mixed content warning that keeps the padlock broken.

How to create a database, user and permissions with the cPanel wizard, where to find the connection details for WordPress and Laravel, and how to use phpMyAdmin to import and export.

How to make a domain registered at Registro.br, GoDaddy or HostGator answer from your RedHosting hosting, how long propagation takes and how to check that it worked.

A diagnostic checklist to tell whether the outage is your internet, your program, the domain or the infrastructure — and what to check before opening a ticket.

What really determines the ping between you and the server, how to measure latency, jitter and packet loss the right way, and why the number shown in the game isn't the same as the test's.

How to recognize an attack, what RedHosting's mitigation already does on its own, which decisions are yours and what to avoid — including the reactions that tend to make things worse.

What the daily automatic backup covers, what it doesn't, why your own copy is still necessary and how to make it for each type of service.

Which channel to use in each situation, what to include in the ticket and why "it's not working" costs hours more than the missing information.

Learn how to connect your GitHub repository to your bot's server so its files are updated automatically on every restart.

To make your server accessible to both cracked (non-premium) and premium Minecraft players, follow the steps in this guide

Learn step by step how to host your bot on RedHosting

Learn how to switch your bot's programming language in the RedHosting panel

What you'll find here

This guide will help you set up and start using RedHosting's services quickly.

Step by step on how to choose and set up your server according to your plan.

To start installing plugins on your Minecraft server, you need to make sure you're running a version that supports plugins.

To set up mods on your Minecraft server, the first step is installing Forge. Follow the instructions below to do it correctly

Permissions are essential for managing who can do what on your Minecraft server.

Here are some tips and tweaks you can apply to improve your server's performance

As you run your Minecraft server, you may run into various errors in the console.