# Databases

> A database in one click for the plugins that want one — and why the server reaches it by name, not by address.

Source: https://stygion.eu/docs/panel/databaze
Updated: 2026-08-30

![The Databases tab](https://stygion.eu/shots/panel/databases.webp)

Plenty of plugins want MySQL or MariaDB — economy, LuckPerms, stats. The
**Databases** tab makes the database, the user and the password for you.

## Before it works

The panel does not run a database; it only creates one on a **database
host** the administrator configured under **Admin → Database hosts**.
Until there is one, the tab says so — and that is the panel's
configuration, not your server's.

## Creating one

Pick a host and confirm. The panel creates:

- a database with a name of its own,
- a user with rights to **that database only**,
- a password, shown to you in the panel.

**Show connection** puts the details together, **Copy** takes them
straight into a plugin's config.

## The address to give the plugin

The panel's servers share one container network, and the database host
has a name on it. What belongs in the config is **that name**, not
`localhost`: inside a container `localhost` is the container itself, and
a plugin pointed at it is looking for the database inside the game
server.

**Show connection** shows the exact address your plugin should be given.

## Rotating the password

**Rotate password** makes a new one. The old one stops working
immediately, so a plugin holding it in its config will disconnect — put
the new one in and restart the server.

## Deleting

Deleting a database in the panel **deletes it on the host**, with
everything in it. A server [backup](/docs/panel/zalohy) does not contain
it — a database's data lives outside the data directory. If it matters,
take a dump.

Next: [Network and ports](/docs/panel/sit).