TL;DR: The freedom server will be moved to the panel and to a new hosting server owned by me. If you are a Senior an admin, send your email address to an admin officer for a panel account.
This has been a long time coming, but the freedom server is finally being migrated to the Pterodactyl panel. This will hopefully allow us to put the issues we've had with the Discord bot behind us and make the server more likely to restart by itself after a crash.
You might be wondering if there was some genius insight that suddenly made the panel move happen after all this time. The answer is: not really. It was originally supposed to happen with the 1.18 update, but the truth is that the freedom server is massive and was slowly but surely outgrowing the existing hosting server. That's why it's also being moved to a new hosting server with more space at the same time. An important detail is that the new one is not paid for by Ryan, but by me, which makes the ownership structure a little bit more straightforward.
A panel also means panel accounts. Unfortunately, there is a problem: Pterodactyl currently has absolutely no logging. That's why panel access is starting off as only for Seniors and without console commands (only start and stop). This is not ideal, and I am still looking for better suggestions, so please make them if you have them. Management of panel accounts will be done by the admin officers, so if you are a Senior an admin, please send one of them your email address so they can create an account for you. The panel will require you to enable 2FA before doing anything.
The migration will happen on March 29, 2022 at 20:00 (8 PM) UTC. It is a bit short notice, but that's only because it's actually outgrowing the existing server pretty quickly too.
Edit: If you care, here are the specifications of the new server, which is dedicated:
Hetzner AX41-NVMe
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores, 12 threads)
RAM: 4x16GB Crucial DDR4-2666
Disk: 2x512GB Samsung NVMe SSD
Network: 1 GBit/s, unlimited traffic
Location: Helsinki, Finland