Member guide

Site: https://pandev.webytely.com Audience: community members and guests Last updated: 2026-08-31

Everything you can do in Pandev Desk: your free KVM VPS, the monthly check-in that keeps it, your free AI API key, announcements, and support. Staff tools live in Staff ops (/docs/mod).

Time zone for every check-in rule on this page: Asia/Manila (PHT).

Start here

Four things cover 90% of what members do:

What Pandev gives you

The VPS is real infrastructure someone else pays for, which is why the check-in rule below exists. The AI key is deliberately generous and the fair-use notes are in Good to know.

The menu bar

What appears up top depends on who you are.

Not logged in

Logged in as a member

Public home

/ needs no login and has three tabs.

Manage

1. Enter Instance ID, IPv4, and Owner email.
2. Look up VPS verifies ownership against Virtualizor.
3. If the trio matches, you see live status plus Start / Restart / Power off — each asking you to confirm a second time.

Check-In

The monthly policy text plus the same ID + IP + email form.

• On success: check-in recorded for the current PHT month, the VPS links to a matching account if needed, and a soft suspend lifts.
• On a permanent lock (pwned / compromised / abandoned / permanently closed) it fails closed — no check-in revives that instance.

Request VPS

Points you at Join. The full Apply form needs an account.

Joining the community

/register asks for:

• Email, username, password, password confirmation
• Discord username and Discord user ID
• Pandesal join date
• Why you want a VPS (project description)
• How you heard about us, plus Other text when relevant

Then:

1. Your password is hashed for Pandev Desk only — it is never your Virtualizor or Linux password.
2. A 6-digit code is emailed. It expires.
3. You land on /verify-email.

While you are there: the terms now mention the AI Token program and what Pandev is for, so the same approval covers your AI key conversation later.

Logging in

Sessions are httpOnly cookies lasting 14 days. Logout clears it.

Your dashboard

/dashboard is home base. Hero buttons: Login to VPS Panel · Support · and the apply pill, which reads Get a free VPS when you are eligible, Application with staff while a held application is pending, Server building… right after a self-service create, and Request another once you have a box.

Tabs:

The My VPS card

Buttons per card: Monthly check-in, Start, Restart, Shut down.

Getting a free VPS

/dashboard/apply is the Rent-A-Server form, and it is self-service. The page tells you up front which way you will go: a clean record shows "Send this in and your server starts building immediately" and the button reads Get my server; a flagged record lists the reasons and the button reads Submit for review.

On submit, an eligible member's box is created on the spot. You are then taken to a one-time page showing the Linux root password:

1. Copy it, then SSH in: ssh root@YOUR_VPS_IP.
2. That page can only be opened once. After you close it the password is destroyed on our side — nobody, including staff, can read it back.
3. Left the page before saving it? The Dashboard shows "You have a server password waiting" with a link back to it. Open that link; the credential is still unrevealed until you do. Lost it entirely? Staff rotate it — they cannot recover it, so do not ask them to.

One free box per member. A second request goes to staff. A paid or custom box does not use up your free allowance.

Why is mine waiting for staff?

These are the only things that hold an application back. Any one of them sends it to the review queue instead of auto-provisioning:

If you think one of those is wrong or already resolved, open a ticket at /dashboard/support with your instance ID — not a Discord DM. Once the cause is cleared, re-submitting (or a staff approval) provisions exactly what auto-provisioning would have.

Monthly check-in

This is the one rule that keeps the free tier free. In Asia/Manila calendar months:

Two things people get wrong:

Where to check in: /dashboard → My VPS → Monthly check-in, or the Check-In tab on the public home if you cannot log in.

Your VPS

A KVM VPS is a whole server you administer: your own Linux, your own ports, your root password. Not shared hosting, not cPanel.

Linking a VPS you already own

/dashboard → tab Link VPS → Instance ID + IPv4 → Verify & link.

Power controls

Running commands inside it

You get SSH on port 22 with your own root password.

ssh root@YOUR_VPS_IP
apt update && apt upgrade -y

The full walkthrough, including ufw, fail2ban and a first web app, is KVM VPS 101 at /kb/kvm-vps-101.

Panel password

This trips everyone up, so: Pandev Desk has three separate passwords and only one of them logs you into the VPS control panel.

Set the panel password on /dashboard: enter it twice, press Save Virtualizor password. Then Login to VPS Panel takes you to main.server.boyemma.com:4083 — email is your Desk email, password is the one you just saved.

The free AI API key

This is the newest perk and it is self-service — no queue, no approval, no waiting on staff.

Getting a key

1. /aitokens
2. Create my API key
3. Copy it from the screen — it is shown once and only stored hashed.

curl https://llmrouter.boyemma.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-you…-here" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}]
  }'

Key states

Recreating a key

Create a new key is for a leaked or compromised key. It asks you to confirm: Create a new key? Your current key stops working immediately.

Requesting access instead

/aitokens/apply sends a human a form: Discord username, Discord user ID, Pandesal join date, why you need it, how you heard about us. Staff see it under Applications in the AI Keys desk. Needed only when your key was terminated or revoked — normal members never touch this.

If the page says not configured

"AI Tokens are not configured yet" means the host is missing LLMROUTER_PROVISION_KEY. Nothing is wrong with your account — staff need a ticket.

Announcements

/announcements is staff notices: maintenance windows, policy changes, program news. Newest first, pinned items stay on top.

• Login required.
• Read-only. Questions go through a ticket or the Discord.

Support tickets

Guests use /support instead — same queue, no login.

A closed ticket cannot be reopened. Reply from a new ticket and reference the old number.

Knowledge Base and Chat Playground

/kb is beginner guides with screenshots: KVM VPS 101 and AI API — the beginner's guide. Public, no login, and it is the place to start if any word on this page was unfamiliar.

/kb/playground is a chat box wired to the same model behind your API key — no code, nothing to install. Members only.

Passwords at a glance

Your first week

Join → check your inbox → enter the 6-digit code
        ↓
Application submits with it — clean record = your VPS starts building now
        ↓
One-time page: copy your Linux root password before you leave
        ↓
Dashboard → Set Virtualizor panel password → Login to VPS Panel
        ↓
/aitokens → Create my API key → first curl or Playground chat
        ↓
Every month, days 1–2 PHT → Monthly check-in

Nothing needs an approval when your record is clean — the VPS and the AI key are both instant. Only a flagged account waits on staff; see Why is mine waiting for staff?.

Good to know

All your links

If this page and the live site disagree, trust the site and tell staff — the docs lag by a deploy, never the other way.