Videos25 Aug 2026Joy Team1 min read

Console walkthrough (video)

Five minutes from sign-up to a running Ubuntu server: deploy, reinstall, snapshots, API tokens and the help desk.

What the video covers

  1. 0:00 — Creating an account and verifying email; setting currency and billing profile.
  2. 0:45 — The deploy page: regions, templates, plans vs custom build, hourly vs monthly.
  3. 1:40 — Watching the job steps and reading credentials from the server page.
  4. 2:20 — Live stats, noVNC console, power actions and password reset.
  5. 3:00 — Snapshots: create, roll back, delete.
  6. 3:40 — Reinstall to Windows Server and connect with RDP.
  7. 4:20 — Creating an API token and deploying from curl.
  8. 4:50 — Opening a ticket and replying from email; the status page.

Written versions of each step are in the documentation, starting with Deploy your first VPS.

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