{"id":1020,"date":"2021-10-18T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/10\/18\/5658627-how-to-use-the-hestiacp-with-vps-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:10","slug":"5658627-how-to-use-the-hestiacp-with-vps-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5658627-how-to-use-the-hestiacp-with-vps-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use the HestiaCP With VPS at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">HestiaCP is one of the available <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583571-what-are-available-operating-systems-for-vps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operating system templates<\/a><\/b> for our <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/vps-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS plans<\/a><\/b>. You can choose it while setting up your VPS for the first time or <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4965922-how-to-change-the-operating-system-for-your-vps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">change it<\/a> <\/b>later anytime.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_0506eba109\">Features<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">HestiaCP&rsquo;s main feature is to be <b>simple <\/b>and have a <b>clear interface<\/b>, focusing on ergonomics by reducing unnecessary movements and operations.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">HestiaCP includes the following <b>features<\/b>:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Web Server<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Nginx out of the box<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Simple and Clean GUI, powerful CLI &amp; API<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">DNS Server, SSL certificates, and SNI wildcard support<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Database Server<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Mail Server, DKIM support, antispam and email antivirus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">FTP Server<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Configuration Templates<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Fast backups, update manager, auto-updates<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">System Monitoring<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">WHMCS billing support<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Secure Platform GPL v3 License<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h_554bae8212\">Language Options<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">HestiaCP has the following <b>language options<\/b>: Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese Mandarin, Turkish, and Ukrainian.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_8c7b0d180b\">Logging In<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Open a <b>web browser<\/b> and enter your <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/5139756-how-to-find-your-vps-ip-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS&rsquo;s IP address<\/a><\/b> followed by the HestiaCP port &ndash; it is 8083 by default:<\/p><pre><code>http:\/\/vps_ip:8083<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">Since SSL cannot be installed for IP addresses, you may get a warning &ndash; accept and continue.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">The default login details are:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Username<\/b>: user<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Password<\/b>: you will find it in the <b>notes<\/b> section of the VPS<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional Resources<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.hestiacp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HestiaCP documentation<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.hestiacp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HestiaCP forum<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accessing and setting up HestiaCP on your VPS at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-os-and-templates"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5658627-how-to-use-the-hestiacp-with-vps-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5658627-como-usar-el-panel-de-control-hestia-con-tu-vps-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5658627-comment-utiliser-le-panneau-de-controle-hestia-avec-votre-vps-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5658627-cara-menggunakan-control-panel-hestia-di-vps-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5658627-como-usar-o-painel-de-controle-hestia-com-seu-vps-no-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5658627---hestiacp--vps-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7015,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/7015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}