Provider, Vultr

Vultr offers VPS plans in 30+ locations starting at $6/mo. Not natively supported by Daedalus, so use the Direct SSH path.

Recommended instance

For Olympus with self-hosted Postgres on the same host: at least the 4GB plan.

Setup

1. Create a Vultr instance (Cloud Compute → choose region → Ubuntu 22.04).
2. SSH in, harden:

   ufw allow 22/tcp from <your-ip>
   ufw allow 80/tcp
   ufw allow 443/tcp
   ufw default deny incoming
   ufw enable
   apt update && apt upgrade -y
   apt install -y podman podman-compose

3. In Daedalus, choose Direct SSH provider, point at your Vultr instance.
4. Walk through the wizard normally.

DNS

Vultr offers free DNS hosting. Set A records via Vultr's DNS dashboard or your registrar, see Deploy, DNS and Domains.

Backups

Vultr's automated backups: +20% of instance cost. Useful but not a substitute for application-level Postgres backups, see Operate, Backups (Postgres).

Where next

• Deploy, Provider, Direct SSH, the provisioning path.
• Deploy, First production deploy