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title: Introduction
description: Open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go
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Pterodactyl is the open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with
security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful
and intuitive UI to administrators and users. What more are you waiting for? Make game servers a first-class
citizen on your platform today.

## Supported Games

We support a huge variety of games by utilizing Docker containers to isolate each instance, giving you the power
to host your games across the world without having to bloat each physical machine with additional dependencies.

Some of our core supported games include:

* Minecraft — including Spigot, Sponge, Bungeecord, Waterfall, and more
* Rust
* Terraria
* Teamspeak
* Mumble
* Team Fortress 2
* Counter Strike: Global Offensive
* Garry's Mod
* ARK: Survival Evolved

In addition to our standard nest of supported games, our community is constantly pushing the limits of this software
and there are plenty more games available provided by the community. Some of these games include:

* Factorio
* San Andreas: MP
* Pocketmine MP
* Squad
* FiveM
* Xonotic
* Discord ATLBot
* [and many more...](https://pterodactyleggs.com)

## Responsible Disclosure

Pterodactyl is completely open-source, and as such completely open to independent users and auditors to browse our
code base and hunt for security issues. If you come across anything that raises red flags for you, please do not
hesitate to reach out directly to `support@pterodactyl.io`. We ask that you please be responsible when disclosing
any security concerns and _do not_ report them on our public facing bug tracker.
