Quick Start

Your first Cassette takes about 60 seconds to provision. Here's what you need to know.

Plans

Plan	Specs	Price	Good for
Small	1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 25GB SSD	$12/mo	Personal projects, dev environments, small sites
Medium	2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 50GB SSD	$29/mo	Production apps, multiple services
Large	4 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, 100GB SSD	$99/mo	High-traffic apps, data processing

Start small. You can resize anytime with ~30 seconds of downtime.

After Provisioning

You get:
- A public IP address (permanent)
- Root SSH access with your keys pre-installed
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Automated daily backups
- CPU, memory, and disk monitoring

Connect via SSH:

BASH

ssh cassette@your-ip-address

Or use the web console from your instance page.

Tips

RAM is usually the bottleneck. If you're running out of memory, upgrade. Occasional CPU spikes are fine.

One bigger instance beats multiple smaller ones. Less to manage, better resource sharing.

Add swap on Small instances:

BASH

fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' >> /etc/fstab

Open firewall ports as needed. SSH (22) and HTTP/HTTPS (80/443) are open by default:

BASH

ufw allow 3000

Next Steps

Set up SSH keys if you haven't already
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