Control panel
Simple Servers is Minecraft server hosting from $4 a month, and the panel is where we put the work. It does 24 player actions from the browser, installs plugins from Modrinth in one click, switches between 14 server softwares, and opens your config files in a real editor. Every plan gets all of it. The console is still there, and it is a good one.
Press a button to change the screen. Every screen on this page is a photograph of the Simple Servers panel, taken on a Minecraft server that was running at the time. The players, the memory figures and the console output are that server's.
Console
Yes, and it behaves like a terminal. The Simple Servers console opens with the whole session already in it, so this morning's crash is still there when you go looking for it tonight. Search the output and it counts the matches as you type, and anything you type goes straight to the server.
Files
Yes. Simple Servers gives you a file workspace with a file tree you can show or hide, folders open in tabs, syntax highlighting, search inside the open file, drag-and-drop upload and autosave. Changing one line in a config takes about as long as reading this sentence. SFTP is still there if you would rather use your own tools.
Players
Yes. 24 separate player actions, all from the browser: edit somebody's inventory slot by slot, give or take items, empty an ender chest, set gamemode, teleport to coordinates or to another player, grant experience, apply potion effects, and enchant whatever they are holding.
Plugins
From Modrinth, inside the panel. Simple Servers searches the catalogue, installs the build that matches your game version, and tells you later when a newer one lands. You can also turn a plugin off for a while instead of deleting it.
Modpacks
Yes, either from Modrinth or from a pack you already have. Right-click a .mrpack in the Simple Servers file workspace and choose Set up modpack: the pack's own index decides which loader and which Minecraft version the server needs, the node downloads every mod, and the pack's configuration is written over the server's. Your worlds stay where they are.
Two ways to everything
Most panels pick an audience. This one does the work twice, so the same server is comfortable whether you live in a terminal or have never opened one.
| Task | By keyboard | By pointing |
|---|---|---|
| Open a config file | Ctrl+P, type the name, enter | Click it in the folder tree |
| Change someone's gamemode | Type the command into the console | Pick the player, pick the mode |
| Edit server.properties | Open it in the editor with syntax highlighting | A settings form that names every property |
| Install a plugin | Drop the jar into the file manager | Search Modrinth and press install |
Loom
Loom is a multithreaded Minecraft server built on Paper that runs world work in parallel instead of on a single tick thread. It is written by Simple Servers' co-founder, released under the GPLv3, and installs from the panel's software list like any other jar. Your Bukkit and Paper plugins carry over unchanged.
Cost
Plans run from $4.00 a month for 2 GB of memory to $18.00 for 8 GB. Every one of them includes the whole panel. Paying more buys memory, processor share, databases and backups, never features.
Compare the plansSoftware
Fourteen, switchable from a dropdown, with any version reinstallable when you need to roll back. One of them is ours.
Plugins and datapacks come from Modrinth, searched and installed inside the panel.
Care
The part nobody advertises, and the part you notice on a bad day. A panel is only relaxing to use if it assumes you will make a mistake.
Questions
There is no upgrade that unlocks the good tools. There is only more memory.
