Click buy, and a few minutes later your login is in your inbox — no human in the loop. Here's what happens between those two moments.
The old way vs. the automated way
Traditionally you'd order, then wait for someone to manually build your server and email you — sometimes hours, sometimes a day. Automated provisioning removes the human bottleneck: the same steps happen the instant your payment confirms, 24/7, identically every time.
What happens when you order
- You pay via Stripe (€, monthly, cancel anytime).
- A webhook fires the moment payment confirms, telling our billing system the order is paid.
- The provisioner runs — it picks a US compute node and builds your product:
VPS
It clones a clean OS template (your chosen Linux distro, or Windows Server) into a new KVM virtual machine on a node, sets it up, and creates a restricted per-VM panel account so you can manage just your own machine. Then it emails your IP, dedicated SSH/RDP port and credentials.
Game servers
It creates a server on our Pterodactyl panel for your chosen game, allocates ports, and emails your panel login so you can pick a version, upload files and start it.
Web hosting
It creates your account on HestiaCP across our web nodes and emails your control-panel login.
Windows (the hard one)
Windows can't take a cloud password the simple way Linux does, so we built a setup hook that injects your personal Administrator credentials on first boot, then emails them. Getting this reliable took a stack of rebuilds — but the result is hands-off Windows in minutes.
Typical end-to-end time: a few minutes from payment to credentials in your inbox. No ticket required.
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