Checklist: Bought a VPS — What’s Next?

2025-09-22

Checklist: Bought a VPS — What’s Next?

Getting a new VPS is just the beginning. By default, the server is insecure and not ready for production use. This checklist will help you step by step to prepare your VPS: close security holes, enable updates, and configure the basic infrastructure.

1. First login and changing the root password

Connect to the server via SSH:

ssh root@YOUR_IP_ADDRESS

Change the temporary password to your own unique and complex one:

Installing n8n on FastPanel with Docker Compose: A Clear Guide

2025-07-03

In this guide, I’ll show you how to easily install n8n, a powerful workflow automation tool, on your server with FastPanel using Docker Compose. FastPanel is great for managing web servers, and Docker Compose simplifies the deployment of complex applications like n8n with its dependencies (PostgreSQL and Redis).

What You’ll Need

• Your server with FastPanel installed.
• A domain or subdomain you’ll use to access n8n (e.g., n8n.yourdomain.com).
• Basic knowledge of SSH and command line.

Step 1: Prepare the Server

Connect to your server via SSH and create a directory:

Installing n8n in Docker with HAProxy: A Clear Guide for Beginners

2025-07-02

Hi friends! Today, we’re diving into the world of automation and deploying n8n — a powerful workflow automation tool. We’ll install it in Docker, and use HAProxy as a reliable reverse proxy to expose it to the internet.

This guide is created especially for beginners. We’ll go step by step, explaining every command so you not only do it, but also understand how everything works.

Why do we even need HAProxy?

You could just expose n8n’s ports to the internet, right? Yes, but that’s unsafe and inconvenient. HAProxy acts as both a guard and a dispatcher: