There are no hard rules for this sort of thing, but here are some guidelines:
f1-xs: blog, vpn, bot, cgit
f1-s: a bot, owncloud, gitea, popular blog
f1-m: docker host, build system
f1-l: large webservice, rotund java app
f1-x: gitlab (wow such memory very devops)
f1-xx: something gargantuan
ssh to the ip provided to you using the cyberian user.
$ ssh cyberian@1.2.3.4
For more information, see Understanding the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH).
See Troubleshooting SSH.
The cyberian user has passwordless sudo access by default. This should work:
# Linux $ sudo su - # OpenBSD $ doas su -
We do, but right now it's a manual process. Shoot us an email and we'll get it done.
Your VM will eventually be deleted. Capsul will send you a few inoffensive reminders as that termination date approaches.
We associate an email address with every VM so that we can track payment and respond to support requests.
If you pay with a credit card, Stripe stores some additional details about you that we literally cannot delete.
Make it into a mailserver, a tor relay, a VPN host, whatever you'd like - we do have one small request, though.
Crypto mining on capsul is currently considered obnoxious behavior, because the hashrates on our CPUs is so low and because mining crypto consumes entire processor cores that could have otherwise been shared between many dozens of other users.
In the future, if we have plentiful CPU resources, we may come out with a tier more suitable for mining - maybe a high cpu tier or similar, where each VM gets a full dedicated core and sharing them is not anticipated.
We will never snoop on your traffic or inspect what's going on inside of our customer virtual machines - we don't want to. We hope that you'll extend us a similar courtesy and try not to use too much of our shared CPU resources. Capsul is currently a shared (resource-wise) world, and we all must live in it together!
Also, mandatory: our systems exist within the USA, and as such those systems are bound by US law.
If you are using OpenBSD, Guix, or created your machine before April 2025, there may be some assembly required.
See: Backup Instructions.
Once it's set up correctly you should see a new option labeled
[ Graceful Shutdown... ]
on the capsul detail page,
and the The qemu-guest-agent was not detected warning
should disappear.
Can we? Technically yes. Will we? No, never. It would violate the trust that our users have in us. We have no interest in touching client VMs after they're running.
If you lose access to your VM, probably the best way to get back in would be to restore from backup. Just email us.
Not now, but email us and we can probably figure something out.
Capsul runs on a server named Rathouse which Forest and Jes bought on eBay & mailed to a datacenter in Georgia called CyberWurx. CyberWurx staff installed it for us in a rack space that we pay for.
Yep, see our support page.
No, but we normally respond pretty quickly.
Maybe! Email support@capsul.org and ask us about it.