Pelican Panel Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Manage game servers, eggs, nodes, users and roles from one web admin panel — with its database, app key and uploads on a persistent volume you control. xCloud configures the pinned Pelican Panel v1.0.0-beta38 image, generates the root administrator account and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

Deploy your Pelican Panel

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

From Sign-Up to a Live Pelican Panel In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a game-server panel normally means a container, a generated app key, a domain and a certificate before you can import a single egg. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Pelican Panel from the OneClick catalog. Enter a domain — the template needs no other app-specific fields.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Pelican Panel v1.0.0-beta38 image, complete the panel's setup, create the root administrator account with a generated password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Import Your Eggs
Save the generated admin password from your installation credentials, open your HTTPS panel URL at /admin, sign in as admin, change your email and password, then import the eggs you need and add a Wings node when you're ready to host game servers.

Everything Pelican Panel Does, On Your Own Server

Pelican Panel runs in full here — the same control-plane tooling as any hosted game panel, on infrastructure you control.

Eggs, Nodes, Users And Roles
Manage every game-server building block from one web admin panel: the eggs that define a game, the Wings nodes that run it, and who can touch what.
Single Container, Embedded SQLite
No separate database to run or patch — the panel ships with SQLite built in, so there's one service to keep healthy instead of two.
Setup Completed For You
A root administrator account with a generated password is created on first start, and the public web installer is closed — nothing for a stranger to walk into.
Control Plane, Not The Game Servers
This panel manages the control plane. Connect your own remote Wings nodes — separate hosts — to actually run the game servers it schedules.
Panel Data On Your Server
Settings, accounts and the encryption key live on a persistent volume you own, not a third-party panel-hosting account.
Import The Eggs You Need
No eggs are preloaded. Bring in exactly the game configurations your community runs from the Eggs page.

Everything You Need To Run Your Game Panel 24/7

Managed hosting for Pelican Panel, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Pelican Panel v1.0.0-beta38 deployed instantly
Root admin account generated for you
Embedded SQLite, no database to run
Public installer closed by default
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Pelican Panel hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More nodes, more admins, more concurrent sessions.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Pelican Panel alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Pelican Panel itself is free under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Pelican Panel on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Game Panel?

Pelican Panel on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What is Pelican Panel?

Pelican Panel is an open-source control panel for managing game servers — eggs, nodes, users and roles from one web admin panel. This template deploys v1.0.0-beta38, an upstream beta release.

Does this run my game servers?

No. This install is the panel only. The panel schedules and manages game servers that run on separately connected Wings nodes — remote hosts you add once the panel is live.

Is Pelican Panel free?

Yes — it is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. What you pay xCloud for is the dedicated server it runs on and the management around it, not the application itself.

How do I sign in the first time?

Use username admin and the generated password shown in your protected installation credentials, at /admin on your domain. Change the admin email and password under your profile right after signing in.

What does xCloud configure automatically?

The panel's setup is completed for you on first start: the root administrator account, the app key and the persistent data volume. The panel is published through xCloud-managed HTTPS; the container port is otherwise bound to loopback only.

Are any eggs preloaded?

No. Import the eggs you need from the Eggs page after signing in — nothing is preloaded for you.

What runs alongside the panel?

Nothing else: it is a single container running PHP-FPM, a queue worker, a scheduler and a web server, with SQLite embedded. No separate database service.

What should I back up?

The panel's data volume, which holds the .env file (including the generated app key), the SQLite database, avatars, icons and plugins. Losing the app key makes encrypted data unreadable.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Pelican Panel?

No. Upgrades are a manual step: bump the readable tag and digest together after reading the upstream release notes, and back up first.

What are the server requirements?

The template manifest asks for 512 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk as a floor. This page sells the 6 GB tier, comfortable headroom above that floor — measured idle use on QA was roughly 205-235 MiB.

What survives a restart?

Everything on the panel's persistent volume — the database, the app key, avatars, icons and plugins. An xCloud Restart was verified not to touch any of it.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Pelican?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Pelican project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Pelican Panel project.

Can I run other apps on the same server?

Yes. It is a dedicated Cloud VPS, not a locked appliance, so you can deploy other OneClick apps or your own sites beside it as long as the resources are there.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.