First login over SSH (find your IP + root password)
Locate your Victus VPS IP address and root password in the control panel, then connect over SSH from Windows, macOS or Linux for the first time.
A Victus VPS is a full KVM virtual machine, so you manage it the same way you would any Linux server: over SSH as the root user. Everything you need to connect — the public IP and the initial root password — is shown in the control panel at control.victuscloud.com. This guide gets you from a freshly provisioned VPS to a working shell.
Find your IP and root password
- Log in to the control panel at control.victuscloud.com.
- Open your VPS from the server list and go to the Network (allocations) area to read the primary public IPv4 address.
- Open the VPS Settings / details view to find the generated root password shown when the machine was first built.
- Copy both values. The default SSH user is root and the default port is 22.
The root password is generated at provision time (or set to the value you chose during checkout). If you injected an SSH key at provision, you may not have a password prompt at all — connect with your key instead.
Connect from your computer
On macOS or Linux, use the built-in terminal. On Windows 10/11, the same ssh command works from PowerShell, Command Prompt or Git Bash. Replace the IP with your own.
# Password login
ssh root@YOUR_VPS_IP
# If you injected an SSH key at provision
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 root@YOUR_VPS_IP
# Non-standard port (only if you changed it)
ssh -p 22 root@YOUR_VPS_IPThe first connection asks "Are you sure you want to continue connecting?" — type yes. This just records the server fingerprint. Also change the generated root password after your first login (see the "Reset the root password" article).
Give a brand-new VPS 1-2 minutes to finish booting after it shows as running. If it still fails, see the "Cannot connect / SSH connection refused" article.