Introduction
Now that you have a SystemOnGrid account with an active credit card, you can finally create an Orbit. An Orbit is your virtual machine and it contains all your data that you wish to store.
Prerequisites
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Account with Active Credit Card
Creating an Orbit
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To start creating your orbit, first navigate to the ‘My Orbits’ tab
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Then click ‘Create’ Orbit’
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By default, it will be on the Paid Orbit creation section
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Now select the image that you want and the size of the CPU and RAM
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Next, select the size of the root volume that you want (you can scale up your root volume later on after you create the Orbit. Then you can either set a temporary password or SSH Key as your Authentication method. Finally, assign your Orbit a name and description(optional and click ‘Create’. Your Orbit should start up shortly and you will be able to log in. For security reasons, if you chose a password as authorization, the operating system will ask you to reset it once you login.
Default Login Usernames
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Ubuntu Server
ssh ubuntu@ipaddress
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Centos Server
ssh centos@ipaddress
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Debian Server
ssh debian@ipaddress
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Fedora Server
ssh fedora@ipaddress