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title: "General"
url: "https://www.gameserverkings.com/knowledge-base/general/"
articles: 8
updated: "2026-08-19T09:00:15.734Z"
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# General

## Articles

- [How to Give Your Server a Custom Address](/knowledge-base/general/custom-server-address.md): Point a domain at your game server. How A and SRV records differ, which games actually read SRV, the exact record syntax, and how to verify it with dig.
- [How to add Sub-Users to your panel](/knowledge-base/general/how-to-add-sub-users-to-your-panel.md): Give staff their own panel logins: invite by email from the Users tab, then tick only the groups they need - Control, File, Backup, Schedule, Startup.
- [How to create a Database via your panel](/knowledge-base/general/how-to-create-a-database-via-your-panel.md): Create a MySQL database from your panel's Databases tab, then copy the host, port 3306 and generated credentials into a LuckPerms or EssentialsX config.
- [How to create a backup](/knowledge-base/general/how-to-create-a-backup.md): Create, restore, download and lock backups from the Backups tab, see what a snapshot leaves out, and automate a nightly one with a Create Backup task.
- [How to setup Schedules](/knowledge-base/general/how-to-setup-schedules.md): Build panel Schedules from the cron minute, hour and day fields, then chain console commands, power actions and backups with delays for warned restarts.
- [How to upload files via SFTP](/knowledge-base/general/how-to-upload-files-via-sftp.md): Your SFTP host, port 2022 and username are in the panel's Settings tab, and the password is your panel password. Connect with FileZilla to upload mods.
- [How to use your server panel](/knowledge-base/general/how-to-use-your-server-panel.md): A tab-by-tab tour of your server panel: Console, File Manager, Databases, Schedules, Users, Backups, Network, Startup and Settings, and what each one is for.
- [Players Can't Connect to My Server: How to Fix It](/knowledge-base/general/players-cant-connect.md): Work through it by symptom: offline in the panel, missing from the in-game browser, direct connect failing, or only you being unable to join.