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A server’s Settings tab. Everything here is either about how the machine is reached or about how it looks in the panel — the software on it lives under Runtime.

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Timezone

Scheduled jobs are written in the server’s own time. This is what decides when a job set for three in the morning actually happens, and changing it moves all of them at once. Worth setting before you write any schedules, and worth being careful with afterwards.

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Private connections

Let one of your servers reach this one on its private address, on every port. An application server reaching a database server is the shape this exists for. Nothing has to be opened to the internet for it — which is the difference between a database reachable by your app server and one reachable by everybody who scans port 5432. Shipways follows the address, so a machine that moves keeps working. For a narrower opening than every port, add a firewall rule with that machine’s private address as its source instead. Both machines need a private IP address recorded. A server without one cannot be connected to, and the panel says so rather than offering an empty list. Removing a connection stops that server reaching this one privately. Anything holding an open connection at the time will find it gone.

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Colour, tags and notes

None of this touches the machine. Colour is how the row looks in the list. Tags are what the command palette matches on, so typing staging and getting the eight machines that carry it is the whole reason to put one on. Notes are for whatever about this machine is worth remembering, visible to everybody in the organization. Cosmetic at three servers and necessary at thirty.

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Archiving and removing

Archive takes the server out of the ordinary lists without doing anything to it. Use it for a machine you are keeping but not looking at. Remove uninstalls the agent and takes the server and its sites out of Shipways. Nothing on the machine is deleted — nginx, PHP, your databases and your files all stay exactly as they are, and you go on paying for it until you destroy it at your provider.