Ordering and Setting Up a VPS

1. Choose a plan

Compare VPS plans by vCPU, RAM, NVMe SSD and traffic. Each plan includes one public IPv4, a /64 IPv6 subnet and 1 Gbps uplink.

2. Select operating system

Recommended images:

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (default)
Debian 12
Rocky Linux 9
Alpine Linux 3.20 (minimal)

3. Secure SSH access

After first install authenticate with SSH keys only, never with password
Disable root login
Install Fail2ban
Open only required ports via firewall (ufw/nftables)

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