One-click apps on your VPS

When you order a Linux VPS you can pick an app to pre-install on first boot. The machine comes up with the app already running, so you skip the manual setup. It is optional: leave it on "None" for a plain OS.

How to choose one

On the VPS order page there is an App dropdown. Pick an app and order as normal. The install runs once, on the very first boot, on top of your normal account and network settings (those are never changed). It only applies to Linux; Windows VPS orders ignore it.

What you can pre-install

• Docker + Compose and Portainer (a web UI for Docker)
• WordPress and a plain LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP)
• Node.js LTS (with PM2) and Caddy (automatic HTTPS)
• Gitea (your own Git server), Nextcloud (files, calendar, contacts)
• Uptime Kuma (uptime monitoring), Vaultwarden (a password manager)
• PostgreSQL, MariaDB (MySQL-compatible) and Redis (in-memory store) databases, plus MinIO (S3-compatible object storage)

All of these are free, open-source projects. We install and start them; we do not modify them.

Where your app credentials are

Apps that generate a password or database write a short text file in your home directory and in /root, for example oh-gitea-credentials.txt or oh-mariadb-credentials.txt. A marker file at /etc/oh-app-installed confirms the install finished.

How to reach a web UI or database

For security, app interfaces and databases listen on the server itself, and only your dedicated SSH port is open to the internet by default. The simplest way in is an SSH tunnel: forward the app's port over your existing SSH connection, then open it on your own computer. For a web UI on port 3000:

ssh -p PORT -L 3000:127.0.0.1:3000 USER@IP

then browse to http://127.0.0.1:3000 locally. The same pattern works for any port (databases on 5432, 3306 or 6379; object storage on 9001; and so on). To expose an app to the public internet instead, put a domain with HTTPS in front of it (see the guides) or ask support about a dedicated IPv4 address.

Want something else?

The VPS is fully yours with root access, so you can install anything afterwards the normal way. The one-click list is just a convenience for the most common setups.