cloudnx.in

Quickstart in 5 minutes

From signup to a running Linux VM with full root SSH access. No prior cloud experience required.

1. Create your CloudNx account

Visit cloudnx.in/registerand sign up with email + password, or via GitHub / Google OAuth. You’ll receive a 6-digit verification code by email — enter it on the next screen to activate your account.

Every new account receives ₹500 free credit automatically. This covers ~7 days of a Small instance or ~3 weeks of a Nano.

2. Complete autopay setup

Onboarding requires you to authorise an autopay mandate so your wallet auto-tops-up before instances run dry. The first authorisation charge becomes wallet credit — it isn’t lost. Choose an amount (₹500 default) and complete the Razorpay flow.

Tip: set the auto-top-up trigger to ₹100 and the recharge amount to your typical monthly burn × 1.5 — this minimises the chance of a service interruption while keeping cash float low.

3. Add an SSH key

You can either upload an existing public key from ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub or have CloudNx generate a fresh keypair and download the .pem in your browser — same as AWS.

# View your existing public key
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

# Or generate a new one
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "cloudnx" -f ~/.ssh/cloudnx_ed25519

Paste it at /ssh-keys with a recognisable name (e.g. laptop, ci-runner).

4. Launch an instance

From /instances/new:

  1. Pick a plan (start with Small — 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 30 GB NVMe at ₹1,499/mo).
  2. Pick an OS image (Ubuntu 22.04 is the default).
  3. Give the instance a name (lowercase letters, digits, dashes).
  4. Pick your SSH key.
  5. Click Launch.

Provisioning takes 40–60 seconds. The detail page shows a public DNS hostname like vm-x4f8a1b2.vm.cloudnx.in and an SSH command you can copy.

5. Connect

ssh -i ~/.ssh/cloudnx_ed25519 [email protected] -p 22042

Or use the in-browser console at the top of the instance detail page — same shell, no local SSH client needed.

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