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Getting started with a Centos 7 vps

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You should receive your details like so, you will need to create a ticket or wait for some time for your VPS to be approved/made active. This is only on first-time purchases.
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The First 3 emails are about your payment and which you should get before your VPS arrives within your hands, virtually of course. The last email which is the PloxHost | VPS Order Setup information contains important details such as your login details.

Navigate to https://billing.plox.host/clientarea.php select the vps you have bought.
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It should look like this. Scrolling down you should see the following details. 

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This shows we are using the centos 7 operating system. We are located in New York City. This is how you can control the server from reinstallations and restarting/stopping/starting the vps.

Please follow this article about logging into your VPS with the details from PloxHost | VPS Order Setup Information 

Once you have followed that you are now into your server. It should look sort of like this:

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As you see 21 people tried to log in since my last login. Disabling password-based authentication will solve this as it uses ssh keys.

Install Nano

Nano is a text editor which is another one for vim. I checked if it was installed and it was not.


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On Ubuntu, you would use apt-get install nano but on Cent os, we use yum. Execute this in your terminal:

yum install nano


You should get a message like:
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This is asking if you want to use 1.6 Megabytes of storage on this. Type in y

Then you will get another message.
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Type in y.

Type in nano to the terminal.
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It should look like this, if not refollow the instructions. You can now either write something or press CTRL + X, if promoted type in n to not save. Then you should return back to the normal place.

You now have successfully installed Nano and logged into your VPS.


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