VPS Farm | Documentation

1. Signup

You will need to register for a VPS Farm account to use our services. Click here to signup.

2. Account Verification

After you complete the signup form, you will need to complete our account verification step. To complete the account verification step, login to your account. Once you are prompted to enter your phone number, select your country code from the drop down menu and enter your full phone number including area code in the phone number field. Once you click on the submit button, you should receive a phone call with a three digit code. To complete the verification step, enter the three digit code in the 'Verification Code' field and click on the submit button. If you don't receive a call within a few minutes, you can retry the verification step after 15 minutes.

3. Add SSH Keys

VPS Farm has two types of operating system (OS) images: auto-install and manual-install. The auto-install images are preconfigured to use ssh public key authentication. If you plan on using an auto-install OS image, you will need to be sure you have your ssh public keys added from the SSH Key Management page.

4. Add Funds

Before you can create a virtual server, you will need to add funds to your VPS Farm account. VPS Farm accepts Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express. You can add funds to your account from the add funds page. VPS Farm will deduct funds from your credit balance on an hourly basis for virtual server and bandwidth usage. We do not store credit card numbers so you will need to ensure there is sufficient funds to keep any virtual servers you have added to your account. All payments are non-refundable.

4. Create a Virtual Server

To create a virtual server, you will need to use the VPS Farm Console. Follow the steps in the VPS Farm Console section to learn more about the Console.

VPS Farm Customer Area click to enlarge

What is the VPS Farm Console?

The VPS Farm Console is a VNC console to a virtual server / cloud administration tool. The console allows customers to create / delete virtual servers, power cycle virtual servers, check credit balance, and open a console session to an already running virtual server.

Connecting to the Console

You can connect to the console using the provided Java based VNC client by clicking on the 'console' link shown on the top of this page or by using any SSL enabled VNC client. To use the Java based client, you will need Java 6 (1.6.0) or newer with Java Web Start enabled.

VNC Server Hostname	: console.vpsfarm.com
VNC Server Port	: 5901
Encryption	: SSL/TLS

Login

Use your VPS Farm username and password to login to the console. If your account has been recently created or if you have changed your password, you will need to wait 15 minutes before you can login. If you are unable to login or need to reset your password, use the password reset form or contact us at support@vpsfarm.com.

VPS Farm VNC Login Screen click to enlarge

Using the Console

When you first login to the console, you will be presented with a terminal window. The terminal window is running the VPS Farm Console shell. Type 'help' to see a list of available commands.

VPS Farm Console Shell click to enlarge

Creating a new Virtual Server (VPS)

You'll need to choose a hosting plan and an image to use for the VPS. From the console:

Run 'plans' for a list of available plans
Run 'images' for a list of available images
Run 'create_vps -p PLAN_NAME -i IMAGE_NAME' to create the VPS

Replace PLAN_NAME with the name of the selected plan and IMAGE_NAME with the name of the image. If the command completes successfully, you should see a VNC console window open and see the VPS boot into the selected OS image. If the image name does not start with 'auto-', you will need to manually install the OS using the console.

CentOS Install click to enlarge