Create a VM
Launch a virtual machine from the Cloud Panel in about a minute, and see where to go when you want to automate it.
Prerequisites
- ServersCamp account with positive balance
- An SSH key ready, or let the wizard generate one for you
Creating a VM in the Cloud Panel
- Navigate to Virtual Machines and click Create VM
- Pick an operating system image (Ubuntu, Debian)
- Pick the hardware: Basic for everyday workloads, High Frequency for the fastest x86 single cores
- Pick a compute profile: Burst (cheaper, yields first under host contention) or Sustained (top scheduling priority at all times)
- Pick a size: from 1 vCPU / 1 GB up
- Pick a disk: class first (Basic, Database, Solo or Storage), then size. The first 25 GB of the Basic-class root disk are free
- Select your network and an SSH key
- Review the live price estimate and click Create
Your VM boots in seconds. The details page shows its public and private IPs, console access, and metrics.
Not sure which disk class to pick? Basic is the safe default. The full decision guide lives in the Block Storage docs.
Automating it
Everything the panel does goes through the public REST API, authenticated with sc_ tokens you create under Settings → API Tokens. Start with the API reference, or explore the live OpenAPI spec.