Managing your VPS

Dashboard overview #

The Overview page is the panel home. It answers three questions at a glance:

• Monthly cost: the monthly-equivalent cost of all your services, including hourly
  instances projected to a full month.
• Running: how many instances are running out of your total.
• Next renewal: the next date and amount due, or Nothing due, Expired or
  auto-renew off when a renewal is not scheduled.

The KPIs and the services list belong to the active workspace, whose name sits in the top
bar, and at the top of the sidebar on wide screens. A personal account starts with one Personal
workspace; a company or a school can add its own, each with a separate wallet and its own
members. The Recommendations card concerns your account rather than the workspace. See
Workspaces for switching, inviting people and what each role may
do.

Below the KPIs, the Services card lists your VPS Instances. Databases, Kubernetes,
Docker, Object Storage, Load Balancers and Domains are marked Coming soon. The
Recommendations card suggests next steps such as adding a sign-in provider, completing
your profile, enabling 2FA, and claiming welcome Credits (granted after completing your profile
and linking a sign-in provider, or after identity verification, subject to eligibility checks).

If a legal document version is waiting for your acceptance, the panel opens the confirmation
page instead of this one until you accept it. See
Legal documents & acceptance.

Your VPS list #

Open VPS Instances in the sidebar. Two tabs separate the billing models:

• Recurring Plans: monthly instances.
• Hourly Billing: hourly instances.

Each card shows the status, the instance name, CPU/RAM/disk utilisation, public IPv4 (or
Pending IP... while it is being assigned) and the plan specifications. Select a card or
its name to open the instance. The list refreshes automatically, so status changes appear
without reloading.

The empty tile Deploy a VPS Instance opens the deploy form described in
Deploying a VPS.

Instance status reference #

Status	Meaning
queue	The deploy request is accepted and waiting for a host
installing	The operating system is being installed
running	The instance is up and reachable
stopped	The instance is powered off
reinstalling	The OS is being reinstalled; all data is replaced
restoring	A backup is being restored; the instance is stopped and data is overwritten
error	The last operation failed; open the instance or contact support
suspended	Billing or policy action; contact support if unexpected
deleted	The instance is being removed

Long-lived queue, installing or error states usually mean a capacity or host problem.
For error, open the instance and note the status text and zone. For suspended, check
prepaid rules and suspension first. If the top-up is already
paid, open a ticket with the instance name and the time it stopped.

Power controls #

Start, restart and stop are available on the instance header and on the list cards.

• Start powers on a stopped instance.
• Restart reboots it. A confirmation is required because the instance loses uptime.
• Stop powers it off. A confirmation is required; running services stop immediately.

Power actions are unavailable while an operation such as installing or restoring is
in progress. Stopping an instance does not stop billing for monthly plans; hourly billing
follows the rules in Hourly billing.

Extend, auto-renew or change the billing cycle #

The Overview tab is the instance home:

• Resource Usage: live CPU, RAM and disk rings.
• Instance Details: location, zone, specifications, network and creation date.
• Billing & Subscription: the current Billing Scheme (select it to change the
  billing cycle; free and applied at the next renewal), Next Renewal with an
  Extend Instance action, the renewal cost or hourly rate, and the Auto-Renew toggle.

Other tabs are covered separately: Console, SSH & RDP,
Metrics, Networking,
Firewall rules, and
Backups & snapshots.

Settings #

The Settings tab contains one setting: Instance Name, which also updates the
hostname shown in the panel. Select Save to apply it. Operating system changes are in
the Danger Zone, not here.

Danger Zone #

The Danger Zone contains irreversible actions:

• Reinstall Operating System: choose a new OS family and version and set a new root
  password. All data on the instance is erased. See
  Operating systems.
• Destroy Instance: available for hourly instances. You must type the instance name
  to confirm. Destroys are permanent; take a backup first if you might need the data.

For monthly instances there is no self-service destroy. Turn off Auto-Renew on the
Overview tab and let the instance expire; an expired instance is suspended and permanently
deleted with its data after the 7-day grace period.