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Compute & infrastructure

Installing software on your VPS

3 min read

Your VPS is a regular Ubuntu server — install anything you'd install on any other Linux box.

What's pre-installed

New instances are set up with a basic toolchain (curl, wget, git), a firewall (ufw) with sane defaults, fail2ban for brute-force protection, and Docker.

Installing anything else

SSH in and use your distro's package manager (apt) as you normally would, or pull and run Docker containers directly since Docker is already installed.

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