Everything in the panel.

Pick a plan, sign in with Microsoft, name your world, press Start. That's the entire process. Garrison picks the latest stable Minecraft version, generates an icon, writes a branded MOTD, configures sensible defaults, and boots Paper.

Your permanent connection address appears on screen. Hand it to anyone. They join. You're playing in about two minutes from first click.

No plugins to download. No server.properties to find. No Java flags to Google. The power-user layer is one toggle away when you're ready — but Simple Mode never makes you look at it.

Most panels display an exit code and a raw stack trace. If you're not a Java developer, that's useless. Garrison parses the crash report for the most common Minecraft failure modes: plugin incompatibilities, out-of-memory, Watchdog timeouts, missing dependencies, broken configs.

The diagnosis appears on your server card immediately. One line: what broke, why, and what to do about it. If the fix is 'update this plugin,' there's a link to the Plugins tab.

TPS (ticks per second) is the single most important Minecraft performance metric. A healthy server runs at 20.0 TPS. Below 18, players start to notice. Below 15, the server is lagging badly.

Garrison reads TPS from the console at regular intervals and stores 30 days of history. No plugin to install. No external monitoring service. The data is in your panel, charted, with the lag threshold marked.

When combined with Crash Intelligence, you can see cause and effect: the TPS dip at 6 PM was caused by a plugin update at 5:55 PM that introduced a performance regression.

Every night, Garrison creates a complete backup of your server directory and uploads it to Backblaze B2 cloud storage. 30 nights retained.

Click Restore on any backup. Garrison creates a safety backup of your current state first, then downloads and restores the selected backup. No support ticket. No waiting for a human to pull a tape.

We looked. No other host at this price point offers 30-day self-service restore from nightly backups. Most offer 3 days. Some offer zero.

Server Garage stores multiple server configurations — different Minecraft versions, different mod setups, different worlds. Each one is a separate saved state.

You can run multiple configurations simultaneously if your RAM budget allows it. A 4 GB plan can run two 2 GB servers. Switch the active server and Velocity reconnects players automatically.

One connection address. Players never need to change anything. You control which world they land in.

Legacy hosts restart your server at 4 AM whether anyone is playing or not. Garrison's smart schedules check conditions before acting.

'Restart if TPS has been below 18 for 10 minutes and no players are online.' 'Run a backup before any plugin update.' 'Skip the restart if no one has been online since the last one.'

You set the conditions. Garrison evaluates them. No surprises, no unnecessary restarts, no losing a build because the cron job fired during a raid.

See who's online, who played this week, session durations, peak hours, and player retention over time. All parsed from standard Minecraft console output.

No plugin to install. No third-party analytics service. No GDPR consent forms for an external tracker. The data stays in your panel.

Browse, edit, upload, download, and delete files from the Files tab. Edit server.properties, bukkit.yml, or any config file directly in the panel.

Or mount your server directory via WebDAV: it appears as a folder on your desktop. Drag-and-drop plugins, resource packs, worlds. Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

No SFTP client to install. No SSH keys to manage. No terminal commands to learn.

Garrison's plugin tab searches both Modrinth and Hangar, filters for your Minecraft version, and installs with one click. Updates show a badge when a newer compatible version is available.

Before every plugin install or update, Garrison automatically creates a pre-action backup. If the new version breaks something, you restore in seconds.

Minecraft's MOTD supports color codes and formatting. Garrison's editor lets you build it visually — pick colors, add bold/italic/underline, see a pixel-accurate preview of the server list entry.

Upload a custom 64x64 server icon or let Garrison generate one from your server name.

Configure a Discord webhook and Garrison sends alerts for events you choose: crash detected, TPS below threshold, RAM above threshold, backup completed, backup failed.

The Activity Log records every action taken in the panel — who started the server, who changed a setting, who restored a backup. Full audit trail.