How to Use the HestiaCP With VPS

HestiaCP is one of the available operating system templates for our VPS plans. You can choose it while setting up your VPS for the first time or change it later anytime.

Features

HestiaCP’s main feature is to be simple and have a clear interface, focusing on ergonomics by reducing unnecessary movements and operations.

HestiaCP includes the following features:

Web Server
Nginx out of the box
Simple and Clean GUI,
powerful CLI & API
DNS Server, SSL certificates, and SNI wildcard support
Database Server
Mail Server, DKIM support, antispam and email antivirus
FTP Server
Configuration Templates
Fast backups, update manager, auto-updates
System Monitoring
WHMCS billing support
Secure Platform GPL v3 License

Language Options

HestiaCP has the following language options: Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese Mandarin, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Logging In

Open a web browser and enter your VPS’s IP address followed by the HestiaCP port – it is 8083 by default:

http://vps_ip:8083

Since SSL cannot be installed for IP addresses, you may get a warning – accept and continue.

The default login details are:
Username: admin

Password: you will find it in the notes section of the VPS

Additional Resources
HestiaCP documentation

HestiaCP forum