How to Provision Vultr Optimized Cloud Compute Instances

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.

Click Create Instance +.

Choose Dedicated CPU as the instance type.

Select a plan category from the Plan Selection sidebar:

• VX1: Provides a balanced price-to-performance ratio for efficient compute workloads.
• General Purpose: Supports resource-demanding business applications such as production websites, CI/CD, video transcoding, and large databases.
• CPU Optimized: Supports compute-bound applications that require proportionally more CPU than RAM and storage.
• Memory Optimized: Supports memory-bound applications that require more RAM than CPU and storage.
• Storage Optimized: Provides more NVMe SSD storage to balance the available CPU and RAM.

Select a plan from the available options based on your vCPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth requirements.

Select the Vultr location for the instance.

Click Configure.

Select an image to install on the instance in the Image Selection and Configuration section:

• Operating System: Installs a fresh operating system image on the instance.
• Marketplace App: Installs a prebuilt software stack or application and the recommended operating system image on the instance.
• iPXE Startup Script: Boots the instance using an iPXE startup script available in your Vultr account.
• Backup: Restores a specific backup available in your Vultr account to the instance.
• Snapshot: Installs a specific snapshot available in your Vultr account to the instance.
• ISO: Boots the instance using a custom ISO or an ISO from the Vultr ISO library.

Select optional Server Settings to apply to the instance:

• IP Address: Assigns a reserved IP address available in the selected location to the instance.
• SSH Keys: Installs a specific SSH key on the instance.
• Startup Script: Enables a startup script to execute at deployment.
• Firewall Group: Activates a Vultr Firewall group to filter incoming network traffic on the instance.

Enter a hostname in the Server 1 Hostname field and a descriptive label in the Server 1 Label field to identify the instance.

Configure Additional Features for the instance:

• Instance Connectivity: Select how the instance connects to the internet.
  • Instance(s) with Public IP: Assigns public IP addresses directly to the instance. Under Instance Address, Public IPv4 is enabled by default. Select Public IPv6 to enable IPv6 addressing. After selecting IPv6, you can optionally deselect Public IPv4 to create an IPv6-only instance.
  • Private Instance(s) behind NAT Gateway: Routes internet traffic through a NAT gateway in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network. Select an existing VPC network with a NAT gateway or click Add VPC Network to create a new one.
• VPC Network: Connects the instance to an existing VPC network in the current location or a new one.
• Automatic Backups: Automatically creates backups for data recovery in case of instance failures. Automatic backups are enabled by default. To turn them off, select Yes, I understand the risks. in the confirmation prompt and click Disable Automatic Backups.
• DDoS Protection: Mitigates Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against the instance to help keep the instance available.
• Limited User Login: Creates a linuxuser non-root user with sudo privileges as the default user account instead of root.
• Cloud-Init User Data: Enables Cloud-Init user data to initialize and customize the instance at boot. Enter your script or cloud config in the User Data field.

Review the instance details in the Summary panel and click Deploy to provision the instance.