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Panel tour: every VPSNine panel guide, in order

A map of the VPSNine panel in the order you'll meet it, from signing up and ordering to the server's tabs, billing and your account, with a guide for each part.

updated · 3 min read

The VPSNine panel at my.vpsnine.com is where you order, run and pay for your servers. This tour follows it in the order a new customer meets it, from sign-up to the last tab on a server's page, with the guide for each part.

What you need

  • Nothing yet. If you don't have an account, the tour starts there.

1. Before your first server

  1. Create your VPSNine account
  2. Confirm your email address: orders need it.
  3. Add your SSH keys: how you'll log in to your servers.
  4. Turn on two-factor authentication, or sign in with a passkey.

The servers page keeps a checklist of these until they're done.

The top of the servers page with the Needs your attention box and the Set up your account checklist, 4 of 5 done
The servers page: what needs attention first, then the setup checklist while your account is new.

2. Ordering

  1. Choose a plan and a distribution.
  2. Optionally pick a one-click app, extra packages or a setup script, add-ons and a root password.
  3. Order your first server, step by step: the order form from the first step to the review.
  4. Pay the invoice, with Bitcoin, PayPal or account credit.
  5. What happens when you order a server: the whole path, and how billing works after.

3. The first minutes

  1. Watch your server build: the live timeline, and what to do if SSH doesn't answer.
  2. Connect to your server with SSH
  3. Your server's first hour: a checklist

4. Every day: your servers

  1. Your servers dashboard: needs attention, filters, tags and the table view.
  2. The server overview page: state, addresses, usage at a glance, status cards and events.
  3. Search, shortcuts, names and tags: press / to find anything and act on it.
The command palette showing the actions for the server Website: open it, console, reboot, stop, take a snapshot, snapshots, firewall, reverse DNS and add-ons
Press / and type a server's name, then the right arrow: everything you can do with it, from the keyboard.

5. A server's tabs, left to right

The tabs under every server's header, in the order the panel shows them:

Tab Guide
Overview The server overview page
Console Use the serial console
Snapshots Snapshots, and the automatic schedule
Firewall Use the panel firewall
Alerts Notifications and resource alerts
Reverse DNS Set reverse DNS for your server
Add-ons Add-ons
Rescue Rescue mode
Settings Server settings, Reinstall a server and Cancel or delete a server
The header of a server's page with its state, name, plan, tags, IPv4 address and power keys, and the row of tabs from Overview to Settings below
The header and tabs are the same on every page of a server.

6. Billing

  1. Account credit, top-ups and invoices
  2. What happens if a renewal isn't paid
  3. The 14-day money-back guarantee
  4. Cancel a server

7. Your account and team

  1. Notifications and resource alerts: what reaches you, and how.
  2. Sessions and activity
  3. Teams: invite people, with the role each needs.
  4. Webhooks, API tokens, the API quickstart and the vps9 command line, to do all of the above from code or a terminal.
  5. Support and service status

When something goes wrong

Next steps

Start at the top if you're new: create your account. Already have a server? Go straight to the first-hour checklist.

Doing it on VPSNine

The plans the panel sells are on vpsnine.com/plans, the apps on vpsnine.com/apps and the systems on vpsnine.com/os.

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