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Creating an instance

Plan, OS, key, hostname, review — the deploy flow end to end.

The five steps

  1. Plan — STARTER for websites and small APIs, BASIC for bots and backends, STANDARD for production, PRO when hardware frees up.
  2. Operating system — Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, or Debian 12.
  3. SSH key — pick an existing key or paste a new public key. This is your only way in, so keep the private half with you.
  4. Hostname — lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens only, starting with a letter, 3–63 characters. It becomes your instance identity in the dashboard.
  5. Review — spec, price, and total due shown once more. Confirm and provisioning begins.

What provisioning means

We reserve hardware, write the disk, boot the OS, and open the network. The wizard plays a live checklist; most instances are reachable within a couple of minutes. You get:

  • A public IPv4 — 102.89.x.x, reachable over SSH on port 22.
  • Root access with your key. No password is ever assigned.
  • 40GB–320GB SSD depending on plan.

Start, stop, rebuild, delete

  • Stop — shuts the machine down cleanly. Storage and IP are kept; monthly cost stops.
  • Start — powers it back on. You keep the same IP.
  • Rebuild — wipes the disk and reinstalls the OS. The public IP changes unless you hold a reserved IP (STANDARD and up).
  • Delete — destroys the instance. You must type the hostname to confirm; after 24 hours the IP returns to the pool.