STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE TO SET UP A LINUX CLOUD SERVER

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Step 1: First Log In to Your Account

First Log In to your account. If you don't have an account already, please sign up for a Free Trial. After Log In you will land up in control panel, where you can setup, stop and star servers, and also create and manage the drives that we have instal the servers.

Step 2: Star Your Server by Adding a server and a hard drive.

You will see an "Add' button in the top menu bar for adding servers and drives. Add a server called ‘test’, pre-installed with Debian Linux 6.0 and a 10 GB drive, and click on ‘Add’.

By clicking on the Add button, the server and is drive will show in the control panel. Initially the drive will show “imaging” and in a period of time the operating system is copied onto it. Wait until the image processing has finished.

Click the Start icon in your Server. You will see an IP address and VNC password in your server, which is required for the next step. You can also set up pre-installed serves and drives.

Step 3: Connect With Your Server

Connection Through VNC : Launch browser VNC viewer by clicking on 'show screen'. Log into VNC with provided username with a blank password or with username as mentioned and your VNC password.

Connection Through SSH : Or you can connect to Linux Cloud Server by using SSH. As SSH is built into Linux and MacOS. You can log in over SSH using the username mentioned by you with your VNC password, or using the username already provided once you have set a root password on the server.

Finally you have active the Linux Cloud Server and it is fully working and functional Debian Linux system. After completing the task, now you can shut it down and the data will be stored on the drive. You can restart it again and the data will be still present there along with the configuration.

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