CrakHost Control v0.51

CrakHost Control is a self-hosted hosting control plane for game servers and VPS-style services. It combines a Next.js customer/admin panel, PostgreSQL billing data, Redis, and the CrakNode Docker runtime agent.

Current capabilities

• Customer accounts, email verification, sessions and staff roles
• Plans, wallet billing, invoices and protected order lifecycle
• Idempotent checkout and resumable provisioning
• Minecraft/game server provisioning through CrakNode
• Server console/actions, backups, databases, allocations and schedules
• Admin users, plans, orders, invoices, nodes and support tooling
• Support tickets, API keys, webhooks and notifications
• CrakMail self-hosted mail stack
• Production Docker Compose, Nginx reverse proxy and optional Let's Encrypt TLS
• Backup-first production updater and health checks

External payment gateways are intentionally disabled for now. The active checkout methods are CrakHost Wallet and the development test-card simulator.

Production VPS install

Point your panel domain to the VPS first, then run:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/navindusasmitha/crakhost-control/main/install.sh | sudo bash

The v0.51 installer generates production secrets, creates the real initial admin account, removes development seed access, starts the stack, verifies panel/CrakNode health and attempts HTTPS setup.

Detailed deployment guide: docs/VPS_DEPLOY.md

Update an existing VPS

sudo /opt/crakhost/scripts/update-production.sh

The updater creates an .env copy and compressed PostgreSQL backup before changing the running release.

Local development

cp .env.example .env
npm install
npm run dev

Panel: http://127.0.0.1:4310

Main services

• panel — Next.js control panel
• postgres — primary application database
• redis — application cache/session support
• craknode — Docker runtime/provisioning agent
• commerce-cleanup — expires stale unpaid orders
• optional CrakMail services via docker-compose.mail.yml

Repository

navindusasmitha/crakhost-control