VPS Guide

Getting Started with VPS Hosting

Everything you need to access, manage, and monitor your virtual private server from your NordServ portal.

Instant setup Web-based console Power controls Reinstalling the OS Root access Upgrading your plan DDoS protection Resource monitoring

🚀 Instant setup

Your VPS is provisioned automatically as soon as your order is confirmed — no manual step on our end. You'll get an email with your root password and IP address as soon as it's ready, and the same details stay available on your service page.

🖥️ Web-based console

Every VPS includes a full-screen console you can open right from your browser — no SSH client required. This is especially useful if your server's networking is misconfigured and SSH itself is unreachable, since the console connects directly to the virtual machine's display, not over the network.

Tip: The console opens in a new window sized for a terminal — if it looks too small, most browsers let you zoom out with Ctrl/Cmd and minus to see more at once.

⚡ Power controls

Your service page has five power actions: Start, Shutdown, Reboot, Reset, and Stop. Shutdown and Reboot ask the operating system to shut down cleanly first (like pressing your PC's power button); Reset and Stop cut power immediately, which is only meant for a server that's genuinely frozen and not responding to a clean shutdown.

Tip: Try Shutdown/Reboot first — Reset and Stop skip the OS's own cleanup and can occasionally cause filesystem issues on an otherwise-healthy server, the same as pulling the plug on a physical machine.

💿 Reinstalling the OS

You can reinstall your VPS with a different operating system at any time from your service page — Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and FreeBSD are all available, with several recent versions of each.

Warning: A reinstall wipes every disk on the VPS — there's no way to recover data afterward. Back up anything you need first; this action needs a typed confirmation in the portal precisely because it can't be undone.

🔑 Root access

You get full root access on every plan — there are no restrictions on what you can install or configure. Your root password is in your welcome email; if you ever lose it, reinstalling the OS from your service page issues a fresh one (see the reinstall warning above, since that wipes your disks too).

📈 Upgrading your plan

You can move to a larger plan anytime from your service page — no ticket needed. Applying the new CPU and RAM allocation requires a short reboot (usually well under a minute), and the portal warns you about this before you confirm.

Note: VPS plans are upgrade-only — disk storage on a virtual machine can't be shrunk, so downgrades aren't supported. See the FAQ for how billing works on an upgrade.

🛡️ DDoS protection

Network-level DDoS mitigation is included on every VPS plan automatically — there's nothing to configure or turn on. It works at the network edge, filtering attack traffic before it reaches your server, so your services stay reachable even while an attack is happening.

📊 Resource monitoring

Your service page shows real-time CPU, RAM, and bandwidth graphs, so you can see at a glance whether your server is under load or approaching your plan's limits — useful for deciding whether it's time to upgrade, or for spotting a runaway process.

Still stuck? Check the FAQ or contact us — we'll answer directly.

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