As soon as you click deploy, the Vultr cloud orchestration takes over and spins up your instance in your desired data center.
Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. It is a very popular Linux distribution with a thriving community of developers and end-users around the globe. Life cycles come in short spans (9 months), and longer spans (5 years) for LTS flavors. The operating system itself is backed by Canonical, the top Ubuntu services provider.
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You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your Ubuntu server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the Ubuntu firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.