Pterodactyl Panel Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Pterodactyl Panel hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted game server control panel on your own domain. Deploy Pterodactyl Panel and you get a ready Panel. xCloud brings up the pinned Panel v1.15.1 image behind HTTPS with MariaDB and Redis, creates your first administrator, mounts five persistent volumes and leaves public sign-up off. This is the Panel only: you attach remote Wings nodes from inside it to run the game servers elsewhere.

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What is Pterodactyl Panel?

Self-hosted Pterodactyl Panel is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React and Go. Upstream says it was designed with security in mind and runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing an intuitive interface to end users. It is a self-hosted alternative to hosted game server panels, and it is released under the MIT licence.

This template deploys the Panel only, as the official ghcr.io/pterodactyl/panel v1.15.1 image pinned by digest, with MariaDB 11.8.3 and Redis 7.4 on a private network. It ships no Wings daemon, game-server ports or Docker socket; game servers run on Wings nodes you attach later, from inside the Panel. Five named volumes hold the panel's configuration, logs, web config, database and Redis.

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

Self-hosting the Panel normally means a Docker host, a database, a cache, a certificate and first-boot setup. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Pterodactyl from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain, then enter your administrator email, username and name. Leave the password blank to have one generated.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Panel image with MariaDB and Redis, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain. First boot can take a few minutes while the database migrations run.
Step 03
Sign In And Add A Node
Save the administrator password from the protected installation credentials, then sign in at your HTTPS URL. Create a location and attach a remote Wings node to start hosting game servers.

Run The Pterodactyl Panel On Your Own Domain

The Panel is the web control plane for your game servers. The Wings nodes you attach do the game hosting, and you keep control of both.

One Place For Your Game Servers
Upstream Pterodactyl supports Minecraft (Paper, Sponge, BungeeCord, Waterfall and more), Rust, Terraria, Team Fortress 2, Garry's Mod, ARK and community eggs for many other games.
Ready To Sign In
Your administrator account is created during install from the email, username and password you choose. There is no public sign-up page.
Full Stack Included
The official Panel image comes with MariaDB and a password-protected Redis. The queue worker and scheduled tasks run inside the Panel container.
Security By Default
HTTPS is set up for you and debug mode is off. The Panel and client APIs reject unauthenticated calls, and the database and cache are not reachable from outside.
Built To Scale Out
The Panel is the control plane. Add remote Wings nodes from the admin area whenever you want game servers on dedicated machines.
Survives A Restart
Locations, users and active sessions created in the Panel were all still there after a full stack restart in QA.

Everything You Need To Run Your Control Panel 24/7

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

Pterodactyl Panel v1.15.1 deployed instantly
You create the first admin account
Free SSL certificate
Panel data kept across restarts
Pinned image, no surprise upgrades
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Pterodactyl Panel

Run a game server management panel
A community or small hosting business gives players and staff one place to create, start and stop game servers, with permissions per user and the Panel hosted on its own domain.
Manage game servers across several machines
An operator keeps the Panel on one Cloud VPS and attaches Wings nodes on other servers, so each machine runs isolated Docker containers while the control stays in one dashboard.
Offer game hosting to friends or members
A gaming group creates accounts for its members and lets each manage their own server from the browser, without handing out shell access to the machines that run them.
Control access without public sign-up
An administrator creates every account themselves, because the template has no public registration and returns 403 for guests on the admin area.

Pterodactyl Panel vs Alternatives

Hosted game server panels: Choose Pterodactyl Panel on your own server instead of a hosted game server panel when you want accounts, locations and users held on a Cloud VPS you control, with the Panel under your domain and rules.
AMP: In a Pterodactyl Panel vs AMP comparison, upstream describes Pterodactyl as running every game server in an isolated Docker container. Check AMP's own documentation for its approach and licensing before choosing.
Pelican Panel: Pelican Panel is another game server panel with its own OneClick page. Pterodactyl's README stresses security and Docker isolation of each game server, with the Panel managing remote Wings nodes.
Minecraft server hosting: The Minecraft OneClick app runs a game server directly. Pterodactyl Panel instead manages many servers on attached Wings nodes and does not host game processes itself in this template.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More room for a larger Panel alongside your nodes.

$59.99per month

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

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

The 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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Pterodactyl Panel is free and open source under the MIT licence; this is the managed server it runs on. The template manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 8 GB of disk. This page sells the 6 GB tier. Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore.

Managed hosting

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Pterodactyl 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 Host Your Game Servers?

Pterodactyl on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Keep control. Attach your own Wings nodes when you are ready.

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 the difference between the Pterodactyl Panel and Wings?

The Panel is the web control panel, which this template deploys. Wings is the separate daemon on each node that actually runs game servers in Docker containers. This install does not include Wings or game-server ports, so you add remote Wings nodes from the Panel to host games.

Is Pterodactyl free?

Yes. Pterodactyl Panel is free, open-source software under the MIT licence, so the control panel carries no licence cost. xCloud bills for the dedicated Cloud VPS running the Panel. Wings nodes for game capacity are separate, and Pterodactyl is a registered mark, used here descriptively.

Can I run the Pterodactyl Panel with Docker?

Yes, and this template does it for you: the official ghcr.io/pterodactyl/panel v1.15.1 image with MariaDB and Redis, pinned by digest, behind HTTPS. It is Pterodactyl Panel Docker hosting for the Panel itself; game servers run in Docker on separate Wings nodes.

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How much RAM does a Pterodactyl Panel cloud server need?

The Panel's floor is 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 8 GB of disk; QA measured about 200 MiB idle for Panel, MariaDB and Redis together. The 6 GB Cloud VPS sold here covers a Pterodactyl Panel cloud install; game servers need their own Wings nodes.

How do I add a node to Pterodactyl?

After signing in, add a remote Wings node from the Panel's admin area and install Wings on that machine by following the upstream Wings documentation. This template runs only the Panel, so it does not bind the host Docker socket or open game-server ports on this server.

How do I sign in to the Pterodactyl Panel the first time?

Open your HTTPS URL and sign in with the administrator email or username and the password from the install form, or the generated one in your credentials. Allow a few minutes on first boot while migrations run. Public registration is not enabled.

Can the Panel send emails?

Not until you set it up. Mail goes to the application log until you add a complete SMTP configuration and switch the mail driver to smtp. Add the host, port, username, password and a real sender in the Environment editor, then Save and Redeploy.

How do I back up the Pterodactyl Panel?

Take one backup of panel_var, panel_logs, panel_nginx, panel_db and panel_redis together. The panel_var volume holds the .env with the APP_KEY and HASHIDS_SALT, which must stay stable for the life of the volume. Test a restore before you rely on it.

Backups in xCloud

How do I update the Pterodactyl Panel?

Updates are deliberate. The image is pinned to v1.15.1 by digest, and catalogue updates affect new installs only. You upgrade by adopting a newer xCloud template version: read the upstream notes, back up all volumes first and never remove them. Then check login and your attached nodes.

Should I choose Pterodactyl or AMP?

It depends on your needs. Pterodactyl is a free, open-source panel that isolates each game server in a Docker container, with Wings nodes for scale. This page makes no feature-by-feature claim about AMP, so check its documentation and licence against your requirements.

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.