Public Cloud docs

A map of hostd Public Cloud documentation: guides for VMs, networking, Cloud Gateway, backups, billing, and projects.

What you can do here

Area	Start here
How the platform works	Public Cloud overview — zone, storage, CPU modes, limits
First VM	Getting started
Virtual machines	Virtual machines — create, connect, resize, reinstall, snapshots, backups, delete
Networking	Networking — public IP, PTR, private networks, external VLAN
Cloud Gateway	Cloud Gateway — NAT, port forwarding, WireGuard, reverse proxy
Backup	Backup — jobs, datastore, file restore
Datacenter	Datacenter — tasks, firewall, HA, permissions, resource usage
Billing	Billing — prepaid, postpaid, auto-reload, stopped VM costs
Projects	Projects — team access, costs, limits
Full capability map	Capabilities and roadmap

Open Console → Public Cloud and create or select a project.
Create a VM with a Linux image, CPU mode, resources, and WAN or LAN networking — add an SSH key in the form.
Wait about a minute (cloud-init configures the guest in the background), then connect by SSH or open the noVNC console.
Add the VM to a backup job in Backup → Jobs.

Public Cloud is IaaS: the guest OS, applications, patches, and in-VM configuration are your responsibility.
To change a VM WAN public IPv4, open VM → Resize, turn the public interface (net0) off, then turn it on again with Auto or a reserved address — no VM reboot. After deleting a VM or gateway, the address can stay reserved in the project.
hostd does not host forward DNS for customer domains; the portal manages PTR for hostd public IPv4 addresses only.
HA restarts a VM on another node after a node failure, usually in minutes; it is not zero-downtime.
IPv6, public API documentation, additional VM disks, and managed services are not available in the portal today.

Support is available 24/7. Use the contact form at /contact for questions about billing, networking, or infrastructure issues.