Information about vpsFree.org, manuals and FAQs. https://kb.vpsfree.org/ 2026-07-20T13:35:06+00:00 https://kb.vpsfree.org/ https://kb.vpsfree.org/_media/wiki/dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2026-07-12T20:51:23+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/information/kb?rev=1783889483&do=diff Contributing to the Knowledge Base Any vpsFree.cz member can contribute to the Knowledge Base. Below the login form, select “Log in with other services”, click vpsAdmin, and enter your vpsAdmin credentials. Translations and page linking Our Knowledge Base is available in two languages, text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:51+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/vpsadminos/recovery?rev=1783888251&do=diff VPS recovery vpsAdmin allows members to solve most of the problems causing the VPS to not start or when it does not respond over network. VPS can be broken e.g. during system upgrade, modification or configuration. Our support can of course help you recover your VPS, but we try to give our members tools to be able to help themselves if they can. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:51+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/users?rev=1783888251&do=diff User account management E-mail addresses vpsAdmin allows users to set one primary e-mail address belonging to the account owner -- a member of our association. This address must be set and can only be a single address. In addition to the primary e-mail address, you can set different addresses for certain contact roles, such as an accountant or system administrator. These settings can be changed in user profile details ( text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:51+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/userdata?rev=1783888251&do=diff User Data When creating or reinstalling a VPS, vpsAdmin can upload a script or configuration for cloud-init into the VPS. This script or configuration is applied on the first startup of the VPS. We support these formats for the initial configuration: * * text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/traffic?rev=1783888250&do=diff Data Transfers Monthly Overviews In the “Networking -> List monthly traffic” menu, we can check the monthly overviews of transferred data. Under default settings, transfers for all VPS for the current month are displayed. Using a filter form, it is possible to only display transfers from the past, choose a specific VPS, node, location, etc. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/repair?rev=1783888250&do=diff Fixing a Broken VPS Since version 2.0, vpsAdmin enables members to solve most problems with a corrupted VPS themselves, i.e. when the VPS won’t start or isn’t accessible on the network. Examples of things that might cause a VPS to get corrupted are system updates, badly chosen commands or configurations, etc. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/playgroundvps?rev=1783888250&do=diff Playground VPS When you need to test a new application, configuration, perform a system upgrade in rough or prepare a new production VPS, you can use a playground VPS. You can create up to two playground VPS, but their lifetime is limited to 1 month. When the expiration date passes, the playground VPS is deleted and you can reate another one. If you need more than a month to test something, please contact the text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/metrics?rev=1783888250&do=diff Metrics for Prometheus vpsAdmin exports metrics for the monitoring system Prometheus. You can add these metrics to your own monitoring setup, whether it’s running in your VPS or elsewhere. The metrics include information about your VPS, such as CPU usage, memory usage, load average, data transfers, OOM reports, node statuses, and more. There are also metrics related to membership, including the date until your membership is paid. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/management?rev=1783888250&do=diff Creating and Managing a VPS Creating a VPS Members are allowed to create VPSs in the playground and the production environment provided that they have enough resources and their environment settings allow it. You can gain resources by lowering the parameters of existing VPSs or paying extra for more resources. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/ip_addresses?rev=1783888250&do=diff IP Addresses Public IP Addresses Every member has 1 public IPv4 address and 32 IPv6 addresses available. Additional public IPv4 addresses are subject to a fee, IPv6 addresses are given upon request. Private IP Addresses Private IP addresses access the internet using NAT and are therefore not accessible from the outside. Private addresses are useful if you divide the allocated text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/exports?rev=1783888250&do=diff Exports of datasets and snapshots Exports of datasets or snapshots (backups) are used when we want to mount NAS datasets or snapshots (backups) to a VPS. The created export will make the dataset/snapshot available over NFS. Every export has its own IP address and path, which we use to mount it to VPS, see below. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/environment?rev=1783888250&do=diff Environments All nodes are divided into environments. In our case, the following environments are set up: production, playground and storage praha. Each member has resources allocated within the environment (memory, CPU, disk space and IP addresses) – resources that he or she can use on nodes within that environment. Environments can have different settings – the allowed number of VPSs, etc. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/backups?rev=1783888250&do=diff Backups Backups are implemented using ZFS snapshots. A snapshot captures the state of the dataset and all data in it at the time of its creation. If the data are later changed, you can still access the data as it was when the snapshot was created. You can text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/server/secondary_dns?rev=1783888250&do=diff Secondary DNS Servers If you are using your own authoritative DNS server in your VPS, you can create a secondary server on our shared infrastructure through vpsAdmin. This is useful, for example, when your domain registrar requires you to have multiple servers on different IP addresses for delegation to your own server. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/server/primary_dns?rev=1783888250&do=diff Primary DNS Servers vpsFree.cz operates shared DNS servers that you can use as authoritative servers for your domains. The setup process is as follows: * In the DNS -> Primary zones menu, create a zone for your domain. The zone name is simply the domain name, usually a second-level domain, but you can delegate higher-level domains as well. text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:50+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/distributions/nixos/impermanence?rev=1783888250&do=diff NixOS Impermanence This page describes usage of NixOS Impermanence module at vpsFree.cz. We support impermanence with root filesystem in a temporary ZFS dataset that is provided by our platform. It is necessary to move the Nix store to a subdataset, which can be done automatically text/html 2026-07-12T20:30:49+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/information/membership_fees?rev=1783888249&do=diff Everything About Membership Fees The board has decided that the payment is made for a period of at least three months in advance. The bank account number is provided below. For the variable symbol, use the member ID that every member sees in vpsAdmin – the Membership Admin section, first column (ID) ( text/html 2026-07-12T14:51:29+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/manuals/vps/userns?rev=1783867889&do=diff User namespace User namespace is a Linux kernel feature used to isolate processes. An unprivileged user from the host's point of view can become root in his user namespace. We use user namespaces extensively: every VPS is running in one such user namespace. As it is, interaction with user namespaces is necessary only in rare cases. text/html 2026-07-12T14:51:28+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/?image=en%3Ascreenshots%3Avpsadmin%3Abackups%3Avps-backups.png&ns=en%3Ascreenshots%3Avpsadmin%3Abackups&rev=1783867888&tab_details=history&media_do=diff&do=media <img src="https://kb.vpsfree.org/_media/en/screenshots/vpsadmin/backups/vps-backups.png?w=500&amp;h=500&amp;tok=c46552" alt="vps-backups.png" loading="lazy" width="500" height="500" /> text/html 2026-07-12T14:51:28+00:00 aither (aither@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.vpsfree.org/?image=en%3Ascreenshots%3Avpsadmin%3Arescue-mode%3Avps-console-boot.png&ns=en%3Ascreenshots%3Avpsadmin%3Arescue-mode&rev=1783867888&tab_details=history&media_do=diff&do=media <img src="https://kb.vpsfree.org/_media/en/screenshots/vpsadmin/rescue-mode/vps-console-boot.png?w=500&amp;h=500&amp;tok=02f6cb" alt="vps-console-boot.png" loading="lazy" width="500" height="500" />