{"id":1063,"date":"2021-07-02T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/07\/02\/5379419-how-to-configure-a-server-icon-and-motd-on-game-panel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:11","slug":"5379419-how-to-configure-a-server-icon-and-motd-on-game-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5379419-how-to-configure-a-server-icon-and-motd-on-game-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Configure a Server Icon and Motd on Game Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"h_4a8a346342\">Server icon<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">A server icon is an image in PNG format, which must be within the 64&times;64 pixel size limit. You will need to name it <b>server-icon.png<\/b> and upload it to the main folder your server:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/07\/35723f07-a967-4fe4-8ffc-6dac35ad4db5.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once that&rsquo;s done, you will see that your server icon has been updated:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/07\/4dc568b3-bdb6-46c4-b358-fdf2af74a202.jpg\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_9f77fd3180\">Message of the day<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">The MOTD can be updated easily through Game panel. Log into Game Panel, select <b>Manage<\/b> on your instance, and open the <b>Configuration <\/b>&rarr; <b>Minecraft <\/b>&rarr; <b>Server and Startup<\/b> menu. There, you will see the option to update MOTD:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/07\/4dd458fe-a48c-491e-958e-d6e0b1084f7a.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you change it, this text will get updated:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/07\/74b45fb9-b37e-4e16-9b05-645cc39b0356.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! Now you know how to change your server icon and MOTD &#128522; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up server icon and Message Of The Day for your Minecraft server<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-panel"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5379419-how-to-configure-a-server-icon-and-motd-on-game-panel\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5379419-como-configurar-un-icono-de-servidor-y-motd-en-el-panel-de-juego-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5379419-comment-configurer-une-icone-de-serveur-et-un-motd-sur-le-panneau-de-jeu\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5379419-bagaimana-cara-konfigurasi-ikon-server-dan-motd-di-hostinger-game-panel\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5379419-como-configurar-um-icone-de-servidor-e-motd-no-game-panel-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8466,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}