Create your first server
This guide covers everything from creating an account to connecting over SSH. It takes about five minutes.
Create an account
Sign up with your email and a password at console.hepcloud.net.
Complete your billing profile
Turkish law requires identity details before we can issue an invoice: full name, national ID number, date of birth, phone and address. If you want invoices issued to a company, fill in the corporate block as well.
You cannot top up your balance while this is incomplete; the console takes you straight to the form.
Top up your balance
Add funds with a credit card from the Balance page. The minimum top-up is 50 TL, which is enough to launch your first server.
Your card details never reach us
The payment form posts directly to the bank and is verified with 3D Secure.
Add an SSH key
Add your public key so you can connect securely without a password. If you do not have one yet:
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "hepcloud"
It asks three questions; press Enter at all of them (do not type a file name). Then print the public key and paste it into the console:
Get-Content $env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\id_ed25519.pub
On macOS/Linux that command is cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub. Step by step:
SSH keys.
Create the server
Go to Servers → Create server: pick a plan, a location, an image and your SSH key, then give it a name. The server is ready within a few minutes.
Connect
Use the IPv4 address shown on the server detail page:
ssh root@<server-ip>
If you created it without a key
The root password is shown in the console once — save it then, it is not shown again.