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Getting started with your Dokploy VPS

What you receive when you order Dokploy, how to open the panel, change the password and deploy your first application with its domain and HTTPS.

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Your Dokploy VPS is delivered with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Docker and Dokploy already installed, and the panel served over HTTPS. Dokploy is a panel to deploy applications, databases and templates with Docker on your own server. You have root access.

What you receive

  1. The email with your VPS access details: the IP and the root password, to log in over SSH.
  2. The "Your Dokploy is ready" email, a few minutes later: the panel address, username and password, with a button to open it.

The same details are in your client area, in your server's "Your application" section. More detail in Where to find your application login details.

First login

The admin account is already created: the installation sets it up before opening the panel, so that nobody can sign up before you do.

  1. Open the address, which looks like https://37-114-51-188.astrolnodes.app (what this address is).
  2. Sign in with the username (an email like [email protected]) and the password.
  3. In your profile, change the email to yours, set a new password and turn on two-factor authentication.
  4. Under Settings → Web Server, enable automatic Docker cleanup: builds use disk space.

Important: the password in the email and in the client panel is the initial one. Once you change it in Dokploy, only you will know the new one.

Your first application

  1. Create a project.
  2. Add an application (from a Git repository or a Docker image), a database or one of the templates included in the panel.
  3. In the application's Domains tab, assign a domain that points to your VPS. Dokploy requests the HTTPS certificate automatically.

Two things worth knowing

  • Dokploy uses ports 80 and 443 to publish your applications. Do not install another web server on those ports.
  • Ports you publish directly from Docker bypass the system firewall and are reachable from the Internet. Publish only what you need and, whenever you can, serve your applications through a domain.

Resources

Dokploy needs 2 GB of RAM and 30 GB of disk as a baseline, which is why its plans start at 4 GB. Each application and database is a container that uses memory, and builds use a lot of CPU and RAM while they run. If you run short, upgrade your plan without losing anything.

More Dokploy guides

Dokploy is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license; its Enterprise features require a separate Dokploy license. For your deployments you have the official Dokploy documentation.

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