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.vuepress/config.js

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                 collapsable: false,
                 children: [
                     '/',
+                    '/project/terms.md',
                 ]
             },
             {
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                     '/',
                 ]
             },
+            {
+                title: 'Tutorials',
+                collapsable: false,
+                children: [
+                    '/tutorials/mysql_setup.md',
+                    '/tutorials/creating_ssl_certificates.md',
+                ],
+            },
             {
                 title: 'API Reference',
                 collapsable: true,

README.md

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Pterodactyl is the open-source game server management panel built with PHP7, Nod
 Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to administrators
 and users.
 
-What more are you waiing for? Make game servers a first class citizen on your platform today.
+What more are you waiting for? Make game servers a first class citizen on your platform today.

project/terms.md

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+# Terminology
+**Panel** — This refers to Pterodactyl Panel itself, and is what allows you to add additional
+nodes and servers to the system.
+
+**Node** — A node is a physical machine that runs an instance of the Daemon.
+
+**Daemon** — A service written in Nodejs that interfaces with Docker and the Panel to provide secure access for
+controlling servers via the Panel.
+
+**Server** — In this case, a server refers to a running instance that is created by the panel. These servers are
+created on nodes, and you can have multiple servers per node.
+
+**Container** — Each server will be running inside an isolated container to enforce hardware limitations
+(such as CPU and RAM) and avoid any interference between servers on one node. These are created by Docker.
+
+## Example Setup Diagram
+
+![](./../images/example_setup.png)

tutorials/creating_ssl_certificates.md

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+# Creating SSL Certificates
+This tutorial briefly covers creating new SSL certificates for your panel and daemon using LetsEncrypt™. To
+begin, we will be installing certbot, a simple script that will automatically renew our certificates and allow much
+cleaner creation of them. The command below is for Ubuntu distributions, but you can always check [Certbot's official
+site](https://certbot.eff.org/) for installation instructions.
+                                                                                                               
+``` bash
+sudo apt-get install letsencrypt
+```
+
+## Creating a Certificate
+After installing certbot, we need to then generate a certificate. There are a couple ways to do that, but the
+easiest is to have letsencrypt spin-up a temporary web-server to do this. In order for this to work, you will
+first need to stop NGINX or Apache.
+
+Then, in the command below, you should replace `example.com` with the domain you would like to generate a certificate
+for. If you have multiple domains you would like certificates for, simply add more `-d anotherdomain.com` flags to the
+command. You can also look into generating a wildcard certificate but that is not covered in this tutorial.
+
+Once you've generated the certificate you should start NGINX or Apache again to have the certificates applied (assuming
+that you've already configured the webservers to use SSL).
+
+``` bash
+letsencrypt certonly -d example.com
+```
+
+## Auto Renewal
+You'll also probably want to configure automatic renewal by adding the command below to a cronjob that runs daily.
+You can add the command below to that crontab. For advanced users, we suggest installing and using [acme.sh](https://acme.sh)
+which provides more options, and is much more powerful than certbot.
+
+``` text
+letsencrypt renew
+```

tutorials/mysql_setup.md

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+# Setting up MySQL
+MySQL is a core component of Pterodactyl Panel but it can be confusing to setup and use if you've never done so before.
+This is a very basic tutorial that skims just enough of the surface to set MySQL up and running with the panel.
+If you're interested in learning more, there are some great tutorials available on the Internet.
+
+## Logging In
+The first step in this process is to login to the MySQL command line where we will be executing some statements to get
+things setup. To do so, simply run the command below and provide the Root MySQL account's password that you setup when
+installing MySQL. If you do not remember doing this, chances are you can just hit enter as no password is set.
+
+``` bash
+mysql -u root -p
+```
+
+## Creating a User
+For security sake, and due to changes in MySQL 5.7, you'll need to create a new user for the panel. To do so, we want
+to first tell MySQL to use the mysql database, which stores such information.
+
+Next, we will create a user called `pterodactyl` and allow logins from localhost which prevents any external connections
+to our database. You can also use `%` as a wildcard or enter a numeric IP. We will also set the account password
+to `somePassword`.
+
+``` sql
+USE mysql;
+
+# Remeber to change 'somePassword' below to be a unique password specific to this account.
+CREATE USER 'pterodactyl'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'somePassword';
+```
+
+## Create a Database
+Next, we need to create a database for the panel. In this tutorial we will be naming the database `panel`, but you can
+substitute that for whatever name you wish.
+
+``` sql
+CREATE DATABASE panel;
+```
+
+## Assigning Permissions
+Finally, we need to tell MySQL that our pterodactyl user should have access to the panel database. To do this, simply
+run the command below. If you plan on also using this MySQL instance as a database host on the Panel you'll want to
+include the `WITH GRANT OPTION` (which we are doing here). If you won't be using this user as part of the host setup
+you can remove that.
+
+``` sql
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON panel.* TO 'pterodactyl'@'127.0.0.1' WITH GRANT OPTION;
+FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
+```