Server Overview

When you click a server in the Console sidebar, the main panel opens that server's view. The default screen is Summary, with a side panel that lets you switch to other management screens (Settings, Security, Database, Monitoring, and so on).

This page covers the parts of a server view that are common to every server type. For type-specific details, see Server Sections, Database Server, Cache Server (Redis), Meilisearch Server, and Load Balancer.

Summary #

The Summary screen is the first thing you see when you open a server. It shows:

  • System info — operating system, kernel version, PHP version (on App Servers), uptime
  • Public IP and connection status — Depfloy continuously checks SSH reachability and reports it here
  • Resource usage — CPU, memory, and disk graphs (when monitoring is installed)
  • Environment tag — Production / Staging / Dev / Untagged
  • Recent activity — last deployments, recent alerts, recent member actions
  • Projects on this server — quick links to each
  • DPM — the version of Depfloy’s process manager on the server

The process manager #

Node.js applications are started and supervised by DPM, Depfloy’s process manager. It is installed while the server is being set up, so on an App Server the DPM row shows the version running on the machine, and a dash when there is none.

Keeping it current is Depfloy’s job. An upgrade restarts every application process on that server, so Depfloy schedules the work rather than leaving the timing to whoever happens to open this page. The row updates itself when one finishes.

Database, cache and search servers run no application processes and do not use it.

Settings #

The Settings screen lets you change basic server attributes:

  • Name — how the server appears in the sidebar. The machine’s own hostname is derived from it: lowercased, accented letters replaced with their plain equivalents, anything else turned into a hyphen. Anna's box becomes annas-box and Web 01 becomes web-01; a name that already looks like a hostname is used as it is. The name you typed is what the Console keeps showing.
  • Public IP — if your provider rotates IPs (after a power cycle, for instance) update it here so Depfloy can reconnect
  • Timezone — Depfloy sets the system timezone using timedatectl
  • Environment — tag with Production, Staging, Dev, or leave blank
  • Monitoring toggle — install or remove the monitoring agent (see Server Monitoring)

The auto-generated root password lives on the server’s Security screen — see Root password for how to read it and who can.

Restarts and service restarts #

The “More” menu in the server header opens shortcuts for restart actions:

  • Restart Server — a full reboot of the machine
  • Restart Redis / PostgreSQL / MySQL / ClickHouse / Meilisearch — only the services actually installed on this server appear

You’ll always see a confirmation dialog before any restart runs. See Console Overview → Restart actions for the full UI.

Sidebar tools #

A few sidebar conveniences worth knowing about:

  • Group by — None / Environment / Server type. Your choice is remembered across browsers and devices.
  • Pin — pin servers you visit most. Pinned servers go to the top of the sidebar in their own group, regardless of grouping.
  • Search — filters servers and projects by name as you type.

For the full sidebar tour, see Console Overview.