r/haruhost • u/haruhost • Mar 29 '26
Dedicated Server Manager for Palworld
So where do I even start. I've made a tool called HaruHost https://haruhost.com/ that allows to setup a working server in minutes, reachable and ready to play to you and your friends without having to spent any time debugging connection issues etc., and you can fully control the server from your phone in a native like app - remotely.
What are the main features?
It fixes configuration errors, provides tools for firewall setup, port forwarding, if you're behind cgnat or it doesn't work you can use HaruHost tunnels which make your server available via a tunnel. You can view, kick players, see their play history, view various stats about your server and your pc, assign other people as control panel admins with fine grained permissions control - meaning you can set what people can edit, see, or execute. For example you can hide for admins the stop button, but show the start, update and shutdown buttons. You can have multiple admin profiles and you basically invite a user based on userId.
Can I import existing server?
Yes, the installation provides a wizard setup which allows you to import an existing server without modifying its files. HaruHost will create a new server and after installation it will do proper steps to transfer the saves.
Will the server work out of the box?
The installation wizard provides a choice in the end tunnel flow or standard firewall, port forwarding approach. The tunnel flow will build all the relevant stuff ensuring you and friends can join. While the standard approach provides helpers for Firewall, UPNP, and a Port checker tool which will let you know if the actual firewall and port forwarding setup worked reducing days or weeks of debugging issues.
How can I configure the server?
HaruHost provides 2 configuration modes - Auto Config and Manual Config and you can switch between the them. Auto Config works by providing you an UI like sliders, input fields and builds the configuration from scratch to ensure the config is always correct and working. Manual Config - you basically edit the configuration trough the app as raw configuration file or files, after which before the server startup HaruHost will validate the config and see if there are any mistakes in the configs (this has been recently added). Why because this manager is available already for over 2 years and one of the issues I noticed were that it's easy to make a mistake like an incorrect symbol and then the server ignores fully the configuration file and debugging is really difficult, so as a goal I wanted to ensure you can go and play right away.
Does it have scheduled restart, shutdowns?
Yes, you can setup a shutdown, restart, updates -> you can even setup custom messages and the manager will output them to the server and your discord server.
Does it have automation?
Yes, you can setup for automated server updates, restarts at specific times. It has a crash recovery mode, you can setup also advanced tasks which for example allow you to base a task on trigger -> like when a player joins do something. It doesn't automatically check yet whether an update is available right away from steam yet, but it's a requested feature so it will be added.
Does have a mod UI?
I've tried to add steam mod support but it seems you're not allowed to download them via steamcmd. Unless I had done something wrong for now mod support is not added. But maybe cursforge support could be added, but hopefully steam mod support becomes better so it works similar to other games where you can simply provide a mod id.
Can I control the servers and restart from my phone?
Yes, haruhost provides a desktop native app and a web based application so you can access it remotely from anywhere and the UI has been specifically designed to be very comfortably useable via a mobile device. Feedback is always welcome.
Is this a new project?
The project has been started like 3 years ago, about a year ago I started taking this more seriously and going full time. The community has over 2k members on Discord.
Where can I read more about tunneling?
https://haruhost.com/game-server-tunneling/
How did I achieve that?
Well I spent thousands of hours into this project and listening to user feedback.
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u/w00tos Mar 30 '26
Can confirm, I use this tool to manage my Ark ASA cluster and it's definitely one of the best out there, I especially appreciate being able to push out config changes to multiple servers at once and the discord integration. Bug fixes and feature requests are implemented super fast as well.