FadeHost documentation

Everything the panel does, written down: game servers and their files, hibernation and schedules, crossplay and login protection, Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp bots, web apps, managed databases and the private network. New to FadeHost? Start the free trial and come back here when you want to know how something works.

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Your first server, the panel, and where things are.

• Your first server: From signup to the first join in a few minutes: create the server, start it, copy the address, invite friends.

Game servers

Files, hibernation, schedules, alerts, crossplay, login protection and the fixes for common problems.

• Files: the file manager and SFTP: Everything the Files tab does: drag and drop uploads up to 10 GB, folder uploads, the editor, unzip, copy, cut, paste and undo, share links, download as ZIP, keyboard shortcuts, and SFTP access for FileZilla or WinSCP.
• Server Hibernation: Hibernation puts your Minecraft (Java) server to sleep automatically when nobody is playing, and wakes it back up the moment someone tries to join. Your...
• Scheduled Tasks: Scheduled Tasks allow you to run commands based on an interval such as hourly, daily or a custom cron expression. When you create a task you will have the...
• Custom Commands: Custom commands allow you to run a console command in response to an ingame chat command. This enables you to run complex commands on servers that don't...
• Actions: Actions allow you to respond to certain events that happen on your server with console commands.
• Server Alerts: FadeHost can tell you the moment something happens to your server that you didn't do yourself. Stopping, restarting, or hibernation never notify: only...
• Your server's address: Every server has a short FadeHost address, name.fadehost.gg, that players type instead of an IP and a port. What it is, how to change it, and what happens when the server moves.
• Custom domains: Point a domain you own at your Minecraft Java server: play.yourdomain.com instead of an IP or a FadeHost address. You keep full control of your DNS;...
• Bedrock Crossplay: Crossplay lets Bedrock players on phones, tablets, consoles, and Minecraft for Windows join your Java server. Flip one switch and FadeHost runs Geyser...
• Login protection: Login protection puts a door in front of your Minecraft Java server. Players with a Microsoft login walk straight through it, the same as on any server in...
• Players cannot join: Your server is online, you can join, and a friend gets Failed to login: Invalid session or Failed to verify username and never gets in. The console shows...
• Why is my server lagging?: Rubber-banding, blocks that reappear after you break them, mobs that teleport, and Can't keep up! Is the server overloaded? in the console all mean the...
• Copilot (AI Assistant): Every server has a built-in AI operator under the Copilot tab. Ask it anything about your server in plain language: it reads your actual console logs,...
• Hytale Servers: FadeHost hosts Hytale Early Access dedicated servers using the official server files. Because Hytale distributes its server through an authenticated API...
• Keyboard Shortcuts: The panel's keyboard shortcuts: the chat and players sidebars, global search and clearing the console.

Bridge

A public address for a server running on your own machine: the program, the plugin, the LAN mod, names, ports and limits.

• FadeHost Bridge: a public address for the server on your PC: What Bridge is and the three ways to use it: the bridge program, the Minecraft server plugin, and the Fabric, NeoForge and Forge mods for a world opened to LAN or a modded server. With the download, the steps and the lines each one prints.
• Bridge addresses and ports: How a Bridge address is built, why Java players type no port, how Bedrock joins, the game presets, adding your own ports, picking one of our Minecraft domains on Bridge Pro, and pointing your own domain at an address.
• Bridge: the offline screen, the join page and the door: What players see when your machine is off, the join page every Bridge address gets, and login protection on Bridge Pro for a world that is not in online mode.
• Bridge limits and Bridge Pro: What the free Bridge tier gives you, the 300 GB fair use budget, when an idle address is released, and what Bridge Pro adds at $3 a month or free with any paid FadeHost subscription.
• Bridge troubleshooting: The warnings and failures people hit with Bridge: the SmartScreen prompt, firewalls, the program not finding your server on the local port, reconnects after a network drop, how to read bridge status, a Bedrock player who cannot join, and the plugin and mod problems including a plugin that will not load on a modded server, a mod that is silent on a server, a claim code that comes back and friends who cannot reach a LAN world.

Apps and bots

Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp bots, web apps and the crash doctor.

• App Hosting: An app is a program of yours that we run from a GitHub repository and keep running: a web dashboard, an API, a webhook receiver, a status page, a queue...
• Discord Bot Hosting: Host your Discord bot on FadeHost, deployed straight from a GitHub repository. Your bot runs 24/7 in a secure, isolated container and redeploys...
• Minecraft Discord Bot: The control panel features a Discord bot which you can configure to start when your server starts. The Discord bot works on any type of Minecraft server...
• Discord Crash Reporting: If your Minecraft server ever crashes this feature can ping you about the crash as well as provide important troubleshooting information like the crash...
• The free plan for bots and apps: What a free bot or app gets, the one free app per person rule, the daily traffic limit, and what a paid plan changes.
• Plan and usage: The Plan and usage tab: what your plan gives the app, the memory, CPU, disk and traffic meters, the traffic chart, and how to move up a plan.
• App firewall: what your app can reach: The Firewall tab on a bot or app: the fixed list a free app uses, your own list of ports and destinations on a paid plan, the ports closed for every app, and sending mail.
• Regions and moving an app: Pick the region a paid bot or app runs in, move it to another one later, what the move does to the web address, public port and database, and why a free app cannot move.
• Alerts and activity for a bot or app: Get told when your bot crashes, comes back, deploys or fills its disk, by Discord webhook or email, and read the app's own history under Activity.
• The FadeHost CLI: The fadehost command: install it, connect it to your account with a code you approve in the panel, then list, create, deploy, restart and tail your apps from the terminal, with --json for scripts and FADEHOST_TOKEN for CI.
• Fix "PrivilegedIntentsRequired" and "Used disallowed intents" on a Discord bot: The two intent errors, what they mean, the checkbox in the Discord Developer Portal that fixes them, and how to ask for only the intents your bot uses.
• Fix "An improper token has been passed" and other Discord token errors: Why a Discord bot rejects its token, the three ways a token goes wrong, how to reset it in the Developer Portal and store it as an environment variable.
• A bot or app crashes right after deploy: the six usual causes: What to read in the console when a bot exits on start, and the fixes for missing modules, wrong entry files, wrong Node or Python versions, bad tokens, ports and case-sensitive paths.
• Telegram bots: polling or webhook?: How the two ways of receiving updates differ, which one to use on a free app and which on a paid one, and how to set a webhook on the app's https address.
• Add a Deploy to FadeHost button to your README: One badge in a README that opens the panel with the repository filled in: the Markdown to paste, what the link does for signed-in and new visitors, and the parameters it takes.

Databases and networking

Managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis, and the private network that connects everything.

• Databases: Spin up a managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis database in seconds. Every database runs in its own hardened container with dedicated resources, and is...
• MySQL databases: Game servers use FadeHost's managed databases: real MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Redis instances you create under Databases in the panel, from $2/mo (one free...
• Private network: Every FadeHost account comes with its own private network: a WireGuard-encrypted mesh that connects everything you host with us, and optionally your own...

Account

Access tokens, AI access and billing.

• AI Access (MCP): Connect your own AI assistant, Claude or any MCP-compatible client, to your FadeHost account and let it manage your servers for you: check status, read...

Guides

Step by step: mods, plugins, whitelists, versions, worlds, RAM and more.

• How to add mods to your Minecraft server: Install Fabric, Forge or NeoForge mods from the panel, or upload the jars yourself, and keep clients matching.
• How to install plugins on your Minecraft server: Add Paper and Spigot plugins from the panel or by uploading jars, and what to do when one breaks the boot.
• How to whitelist players on your Minecraft server: Turn the whitelist on and add players from the console, and see who is on it in the Players tab.
• How to make yourself an operator (op): Give yourself or a friend operator permissions from the console, and take them away again.
• How to change the Minecraft version of your server: Switch the Minecraft version or the server software from the panel, and what to check before you do.
• How to reset the world on your Minecraft server: Start a fresh world, keep or change the seed, and keep a backup of the old one.
• How much RAM your Minecraft server needs, and how to change it: Set the server RAM in the panel, what the pool model means for your bill, and the numbers that actually work.
• How to upload your own world to your Minecraft server: Put an existing world on the server through the file manager or SFTP, and what the folder must be called.
• How to change the server list message (MOTD): Set the text players see under your server name in the multiplayer list, with colours and formatting.
• Backups: how they work and how to restore one: Automatic snapshots, taking one yourself, restoring, cloning a server from a backup, and how long they are kept.
• How to install a modpack on your server: Install any CurseForge or Modrinth pack from the panel, or set up a pack by hand, and keep the clients matching.
• Keep inventory, daylight cycle and other game rules: Change game rules and the difficulty from the console or the settings, and save the commands you use often.
• Skyblock modpacks: get the sky world, not a normal one: Why a skyblock pack can spawn you in a normal overworld, which world type each pack needs, and how to set it and regenerate the world.
• How to move your server from another host: Pull the world, plugins and mods from your old host over SFTP or FTP, then point your players at the new address.
• Port forwarding, or a host?: What running a server on your own PC really involves, and when a hosted server is the better deal.
• Change the difficulty, game mode and player slots: Difficulty and slots are settings; the game mode is a command. Where each one lives and when it takes effect.
• Kick, ban and pardon players: Remove a player now, keep them out, or let them back in, from the console or in game as an operator.
• Add data packs to your server: Data packs change recipes, loot, world generation and more without a mod loader. Install them from the panel and reload.
• Run a custom server jar: Run a server jar we do not list: upload it, turn on Custom JAR in the settings and pick the Java version it needs.
• Online mode, whitelist or login protection: which one you want: The three ways to control who joins, what each one protects against, and the combination that fits a friends server.
• Make your server public: icon, list message, join page, community website: Everything that makes a server look real to someone who has not joined yet, in the order it matters.
• Set up LuckPerms permissions: Install LuckPerms, make a default group and a staff group, and give people ranks without handing out op.
• Pregenerate your world with Chunky: Generate the chunks before players do: the one change that removes most lag from modded and busy servers.
• Move a server to another region: Europe to North America or back: a backup, a new server in the other region, a restore, and the address change.
• Share a server with your staff: Give other people access to a server without sharing your password: teams, the two access levels, and what each one can do.
• Run an older Minecraft version: Run 1.12.2, 1.16.5, 1.8.9 or any release the game ever had, and let newer clients join with ViaVersion.
• Read the console and the logs: Where the server tells you what went wrong: the live console, latest.log, crash reports, and what the crash doctor already read for you.
• Fix "Can't keep up! Is the server overloaded?": What the running-ticks-behind warning means, the four causes behind it, how to find which one you have, and why more RAM is usually not the fix.
• Move your Minecraft server from Aternos: Get your world and plugins out of Aternos, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Fix "UnsupportedClassVersionError" and other Java version errors on a Minecraft server: Which Java each Minecraft version needs, what the class version numbers in the error mean, and where the Java version is set for a server on FadeHost.
• Move your Minecraft server from Apex Hosting: Get your world and plugins out of Apex Hosting, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Host a Minecraft Bedrock server, or let Bedrock players join your Java one: The two ways to play Bedrock on FadeHost: a Bedrock Dedicated Server of its own, or the Bedrock Crossplay toggle on a Java server, and how phones, consoles and PCs connect to each.
• Move your Minecraft server from Shockbyte: Get your world and plugins out of Shockbyte, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Add a server icon to your Minecraft server: How to give your server an icon in the multiplayer list: pick a generated design or upload your own PNG from the panel, or drop a 64 by 64 server-icon.png in the server folder.
• Move your Minecraft server from BisectHosting: Get your world and plugins out of BisectHosting, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Move your Minecraft server from Minehut: Get your world and plugins out of Minehut, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Move your Minecraft server from Realms or your own PC: Get your world and plugins out of Realms or your own PC, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Move your Minecraft server from Hostinger: Get your world and plugins out of Hostinger, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Move your Minecraft server from GGServers: Get your world and plugins out of GGServers, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Move your Minecraft server from PebbleHost: Get your world and plugins out of PebbleHost, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Move your Minecraft server from Nodecraft: Get your world and plugins out of Nodecraft, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• Move your Minecraft server from FalixNodes: Get your world and plugins out of FalixNodes, import them here in one step, and switch the address without losing players.
• How to run a Velocity proxy in front of several servers: One address for players, several servers behind it: create the Velocity server, point it at your backends, turn on modern forwarding, and keep the backends closed to direct joins.
• How to set a server resource pack: Host the pack zip on a direct link, put its URL and SHA-1 in server.properties, and decide whether players can refuse it.
• Set up Simple Voice Chat on your server: Proximity voice chat on a FadeHost Minecraft server: install the plugin or mod, give it a port, and get players talking.

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The Telegram, WhatsApp and Discord bot pages explain those products; the modpack pages carry per-pack RAM tables and setup steps. For anything else, ask: answers become pages here.