About GameDash
GameDash is a self-hosted game server control panel that helps hosting providers and gaming communities deploy, automate, and manage game server infrastructure. It bundles a built-in billing system, infrastructure monitoring, automated backups, and an extensible SDK module system so hosts can spend less time managing servers and more time serving their players.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Generous free, fully self-hosted Personal tier for small communities
- Built-in billing plus WHMCS and Blesta integration is rare in game-panel software
- Highly extensible via SDK module system and a full REST API
- Operating-system agnostic and fast to deploy (under 5 minutes)
- Strong infrastructure automation: load balancing, node transfers, auto updates, monitoring
Cons
- Enterprise and Enterprise SaaS tiers are still marked 'coming soon' at launch
- Self-hosted model requires you to provision and maintain your own server nodes
- Aimed at hosts and technical communities rather than non-technical end users
- Smaller, newer player versus long-established game panels
Key Features
Automated Deployment
Get game servers up and running in under 5 minutes through GameDash's automated, OS-agnostic deployment system.
Built-in & External Billing
A full billing system is built in, and it integrates seamlessly with external billing platforms such as WHMCS and Blesta.
Infrastructure Automation & Monitoring
Event-based monitoring, automated software and daemon updates, automatic load balancing, and a responsive alert system across your entire infrastructure.
Instance Backups
Clients can create on-demand or scheduled backups, stored on BackBlaze, S3, (S)FTP, or the local machine.
Mod Browser & Installer
A built-in mod browser lets clients install game modifications with no manual configuration required on their end.
Player Manager
View who's online on an instance and kick, ban, or message players, with all actions customizable through the SDK.
REST API & SDK Modules
Extend GameDash through its SDK module system and build integrations via an extensive REST API that exposes all web and mobile-app functionality.
Scheduled Tasks
Create cron-based scheduled tasks and chain multiple actions together for complex automated behavior.
Fine-grained Sub-user System
Grant other users scoped access to your instances, defining exactly which tools and actions they can use.
Statistics & Graphical Config Editor
Collect stats like player count, CPU, memory, and TPS, and let clients edit instance config files through a graphical editor instead of raw text.
Pricing
- All basic features
- 1 node limit
- 5 instances limit
- Fully self-hosted
- All features GameDash has to offer
- Enterprise support
- White label branding & theming
- Billing & external integrations
- Application REST API
- Android & iOS app
- Fully self-hosted
- All the enterprise features
- High availability
- Global PoPs
- Automatic scaling
Best For
Game server hosting businesses
Hosting providers can deploy, bill, and manage customer game servers from a single control panel with built-in billing and white-label branding.
Gaming communities
Communities can self-host the free Personal tier to run and manage their own game servers without ongoing license costs.
Multi-node infrastructure operators
Operators running multiple datacenters benefit from automatic load balancing, node-to-node instance transfers, and centralized monitoring.
Custom hosting integrations
Developers can extend GameDash with SDK modules and the REST API to support new games or tie it into existing systems.
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