TLDR: The VPS App Library now includes five new apps: Pelican Panel for game servers, Immich for photo and video backup, Paperclip for managing AI agents, Umami for privacy-first analytics, and Uptime Kuma for site monitoring. All five are available today when you provision a new server.
A server you control can do a lot more than host a website.
In July, we added Hermes Agent and four new OS images to the VPS App Library. Today, we’re adding five more: Pelican Panel, Immich, Paperclip, Umami and Uptime Kuma, spanning everything from game servers to photo backup to website analytics.
Choose any of them while provisioning a new server and it’ll be installed and ready as soon as your VPS comes online.
Pelican Panel: Host Your Own Game Servers
Game server hosting usually means paying by the player slot, then watching the bill climb right when your community takes off.
Pelican Panel is an open-source game server management panel that runs on your VPS and gives you a single dashboard to deploy, configure and manage your servers.
- Hundreds of games: Pelican comes ready for Minecraft, Rust, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 and Garry’s Mod. Add hundreds more, including Palworld, Valheim, ARK and Factorio, by importing a configuration file from the community library.
- Mods and plugins are your call: You have root access, so you install what you want without waiting on approval or checking a supported-mods list.
- Traffic that doesn’t cost extra: Every VPS plan includes unmetered bandwidth. A busy weekend on your Minecraft server won’t turn into an overage charge.
- Access for your team: Create subusers with console, file, or restart permissions, giving your admins a way to help without handing over the whole server.
- Backups and schedules: Set automatic backups and scheduled restarts from the dashboard.
Start with one server for your friends and add more as your community grows.
Immich: Your Photo Library on Your Own Server
Cloud photo services work fine until the free tier runs out, the price goes up, or you start wondering who else can see your camera roll.
Immich is an open-source photo and video backup platform with apps for iOS and Android. Install it on your VPS, point the app at your server, and your photos back up automatically, just like they would to a cloud service.
- Automatic phone backup: Camera roll uploads run in the background, including full-resolution photos and videos.
- Find any photo fast: Browse by timeline, album, place or person. Face recognition and object search run on your own hardware.
- Share without a middleman: Send album links to family, or set up a shared album for a trip or an event.
- No transfer charges: Every VPS plan includes unmetered bandwidth. Keep backing up your library without watching your bill grow along with it.
- Accounts for the whole household: Give family members their own accounts so everyone backs up to the same server while keeping separate libraries.
You decide who sees your photos and where they live.
Paperclip: Manage a Team of AI Agents
One AI agent is easy to keep track of. A handful of them working across different projects is harder, especially when you need to know who did what and what it cost.
Paperclip is an open-source platform for running AI agents like a team. You define the roles and assign the goals, and Paperclip handles coordination, scheduling and recordkeeping.
- Org charts for agents: Set up roles and reporting lines, and tasks move up and down automatically.
- Budgets per agent: Give each agent a spending limit so an overnight run can’t surprise you.
- Heartbeats: Agents wake on a schedule, check their work and act without you starting them.
- Full audit trails: Every task and decision is logged, along with what it costs, so nothing runs unreviewed.
- Works with what you already run: Support for Hermes Agent is built in, along with other popular agents.
Everything runs on your own server, so your configurations and the agents’ full work history stay with you.
Umami and Uptime Kuma: Keep Track of Your Sites
You usually find out a site’s been down when a customer emails to ask why.
Two additions help you stay ahead of that:
- Umami: Privacy-first web analytics that tracks visitors, page views, referrers and custom events without cookies. Everything is stored in a database on your own server, so nothing is shared with an ad network.
- Uptime Kuma: Checks your sites, APIs and services around the clock and tells you the moment one stops responding, via email, Slack, Discord, Telegram or dozens of other options. Publish a status page and your users can see what’s going on too.
Both run comfortably alongside the other apps on your server.
How to Get Started
Choose your app while provisioning your server, and it’ll come preinstalled from day one.
Getting started only takes a few steps:
- Log in to your DreamHost panel.
- Go to Servers & Usage.
- Add a VPS, choose your app and set your login method.
- That’s it. Your server will be online in minutes with everything ready to go.
Not a DreamHost customer yet? You can choose any of these apps during VPS checkout.
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With these five apps in the VPS App Library, there’s even more your server can do, and it’s entirely under your control.
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