> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.shipways.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Server settings

> Timezone, private connections, and the things that are only about the list.

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](/servers/php).

## 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](/processes/scheduled-jobs), and
worth being careful with afterwards.

## 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](/servers/firewall) 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.

## 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.

## 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.