Your VPS is an unmanaged Linux server with full root access. That means you install, secure and maintain everything on it yourself, and our support covers the hardware and the network. This guide gets you from the welcome email to a working server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this page<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A VPS has no control panel such as cPanel, no email service and no domain name included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On macOS or Linux, open a terminal. On Windows, use PuTTY or the Windows Terminal. Replace Enter the one-time password. The server then asks you to choose a new root password before you can continue. Pick a long one and keep it safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Add two A records<\/strong> for the domain, one for Each tool is explained step by step in Managing Your VPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the Web Console itself does not open, or you suspect a network problem, message us on Telegram<\/a> with the server IP and, if you can, the output of a traceroute or MTR to the server saved as a text file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your first steps on a Yegara VPS: where the login details arrive, the first SSH login, basic security, pointing a domain to the server, and what to check when it stops responding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,33],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welcome","category-how-to","category-vps","tag-invoice-vps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
What you receive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Log in for the first time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
YOUR_IP<\/code> with the IP address from the email:<\/p>\n\n\n\nssh root@YOUR_IP<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nFirst things to do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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apt update && apt upgrade -y<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\nufw allow OpenSSH<\/code>, then ufw enable<\/code>. If you enable the firewall before allowing SSH, you lock yourself out.<\/li>\n\n\n\nufw allow 80<\/code> and ufw allow 443<\/code> for a website.<\/li>\n\n\n\nPoint a domain to your VPS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
@<\/code> and one for www<\/code>, both with your VPS IP address as the value. Where you add them depends on the domain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Tools in your dashboard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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If the server stops responding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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ufw status<\/code>. Make sure SSH and your website ports are allowed.<\/li>\n\n\n\ndf -h<\/code> and free -h<\/code>. A full disk or no free memory stops most services.<\/li>\n\n\n\nRelated guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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