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Easypanel VPS: preinstalled, ready in two minutes

Easypanel joins the catalogue: a VPS delivered with the Docker panel already installed, answering on port 3000 less than two minutes after the order.

An app panel in a window, one tile being deployed

Easypanel is a modern server control panel built on Docker: you deploy apps, databases and sites from the browser, each with its domain and HTTPS certificate. It has joined our catalogue: every FFxF VPS can now be delivered with Easypanel preinstalled, on Ubuntu 24.04.

No script to run, no Docker to install: you order, you open port 3000, you deploy. Here is how, timed on a real machine.

1. Order a VPS with Easypanel

The shortest way: the Easypanel VPS page. Every “Order” button opens the console with the Easypanel image already selected; you only pick the machine's name and the billing mode. The same link works from anywhere:

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https://console.ffxf.net/servers/order-vm?image=easypanel

In the console, Easypanel is also in the Applications tab of the system picker. Nano (1 vCPU, 2 GB) is enough to try it and run a few small apps; take Starter (2 vCPU, 4 GB) as soon as a database is involved.

2. The first boot, timed

We ordered an hourly Nano and measured. The machine was delivered about twenty seconds after the order; Easypanel then finishes installing on the first boot, and the panel answered on port 3000 about a minute and a half after the order.

Then open http://your-ip:3000. The first page asks you to create the admin account: do it right away, the first visitor to port 3000 sets it.

Easypanel admin account creation page, on port 3000 of an FFxF VPS
The first screen, on our test machine: creating the admin account.

3. Deploy an app

In Easypanel, create a project, then pick a template (WordPress, n8n, a PostgreSQL database…) or connect a Git repository or a Docker image. Add a domain whose A record points at the machine's IPv4: Easypanel requests the HTTPS certificate on its own.

Give the panel itself a domain too, to use it over HTTPS rather than on http://…:3000. You also keep full root access over SSH: it is your machine, Easypanel is simply installed on it.

4. What it costs

Every plan includes a dedicated IPv4, a routed IPv6 /64, backups, the KVM console and 1 TB of traffic. Easypanel works out of the box on its free plan; its paid plans, if you need them, are bought directly from Easypanel. To try it, hourly billing lets you test everything for a few cents, then destroy the machine.

Everything is on the Easypanel VPS page.

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