---
title: "Instance administration - Deplo"
description: "Users across every team, suspend, reset a password, promote to admin, delete with an impact preview because a person owns things. Instance settings, updates and the panel's own address live on one page."
url: "https://deplo.build/features/instance-admin-and-owner"
image: "https://deplo.build/api/media/file/instance-admin-and-owner.webp"
updated: "2026-09-06"
---

# Instance administration

Users across every team, suspend, reset a password, promote to admin, delete with an impact preview because a person owns things. Instance settings, updates and the panel's own address live on one page.

![Instance administration](https://deplo.build/api/media/file/instance-admin-and-owner.webp)

## The owner

The first account is the instance owner: no other admin can demote, suspend or reset it, and ownership transfers only from the owner, to an active admin, with the password re-entered.

[Learn more](https://deplo.build/docs/operations/instance-administration#instance-owner)

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