Pelican.dev

Overview

Pelican is an open-source game server management panel. Pelican.dev module for HostBill is the perfect tool to sell game servers hosting with plenty of billing models available and automation features to automate account management.

Activating the module

1. If the module is included in your HostBill edition you can download it from your client portal.

2. If the module is not included in your HostBill edition you can purchase it from our marketplace and then download it from the client area.

3. Once you download the module extract it in the main HostBill directory.

4. Go to Settings → Modules → Hosting Modules, find and activate Pelican module.

Connecting HostBill with Pelican

1. Proceed to Settings → Apps → Add new App

2. From Applications list select Pelican

3. Enter:

      4. Verify entered credentials by clicking Test Connection to check if HostBill can connect
      5. Save Changes

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Adding Pelican product

1. In HostBill go to Settings → Products & Services, and Add new order page

2. From Order Types select Shared Accounts

3. Enter your orderpage name, select orderpage template. Save Changes

4. Add new product in the new orderpage. Provide product name and setup price and then Save Changes.

5. In product configuration section proceed to Connect with App, select Pelican.dev and App server created in previous steps.

Configure package limits:

• CPU (The amount of cpu limit you want the server to have)

• Disk Space (The amount of storage you want the server to use)

• Memory (The amount of memory you want the server to use)

• Swap (The amount of memory you want the server to use)

• Block IO Weight (The amount of memory you want the server to use)

• Databases (The total number of databases a user is allowed to create for this server. Leave blank to allow unlimited)

• Dedicated IP (Check if you want the server to have a dedicated IP)

• Allocation (The main allocation that will be assigned to this server, if Tags not presented)

• Backups (The total number of backups that can be created for this server. Leave blank to allow unlimited)

• Tags (Select node tags for automatic deployment)

• Port Range (The range of ports (e.g. 25565-25575) to assign to the server. The port range must be added as allocations in Pelican panel first)

• Egg (Select the Egg that will define how this server should operate)

• Egg variables (Put egg variables value, eg. variable:value;)

• Use smarty variables in egg variables (Allow use of Smarty template variables inside egg variables)

• Variables behaviour (Define how egg variables from product configuration should be merged with server values)

• Docker Image (This is the default Docker image that will be used to run this server)

• Startup script (The following data substitutes are available for the startup command: {{SERVER_MEMORY}}, {{SERVER_IP}}, and {{SERVER_PORT}}. They will be replaced with the allocated memory, server IP, and server port respectively)

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For each option, you can check the field Allow client to adjust during order. This will create a component and the customer will be able to select the value of this field when placing the order.

For more generic product configuration details including price, automation, emails settings refer to Product Configuration article.

Configuring Client Functions   

In Products & Services → Your Order Page → Your Product → Client Functions you can control what features customer will have access to in client portal, by clicking Enable/Disable next to the given option.
Use Edit button to adjust function appearance in the client portal.

For Pelican you can enable number of standard client functions, such as 

1. Change Billing Cycle

2. Change Label

3. Change Ownership

4. Edit Forms

5. Graphs

6. Login Details

7. Manual Service Renewal

8. New Direct Link

9. Related Services

10. Service Auto Renewal

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