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Automatic OS Install

by Nuvabill · Version 1.0.1 · Reviewed and signed

About Automatic OS Install

Let your dedicated servers install themselves from Hardware.

- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Debian 12 and 13, AlmaLinux 9 and 10, always from the official mirrors (or your own) over HTTPS
- New orders install by themselves after payment, and the client gets the "server is ready" email
- Clients reinstall from their server panel after they confirm that all data is erased, with a daily limit you choose
- Staff start installs from the machine page and see each install's progress and history
- Fixed IP addresses, host name, timezone, an optional SSH key, and the first disk or RAID 1 on two disks
- With Dedicated Server Power, Nuvabill boots the server from the network and restarts it; without it, your team is emailed when to restart it
- Installs that stop answering fail after a wait time, and your team is emailed the reason
- Safe by design: one-time links that run out within 2 hours, install requests answered only from the machine's own addresses, the password only as a SHA-512 hash in the installer files, and the new password shown in the client area and never emailed

Needs Nuvabill 0.7.0 or newer, a site address with https://, and your own PXE boot network (the guide shows a small dnsmasq and iPXE setup).

One license is for one website. Test sites (localhost, .test, dev. and staging. addresses) are free.

What it can do on your site

Adds settings for staff
Staff set it up in the admin area.
Controls your dedicated server hardware
Switches the power, network ports or installs of your own machines under Hardware, and adds to the Hardware pages.
Adds its own database tables
Keeps its own data.
Receives data from another service
Another service can send data to a secret address on your site, for example new chat messages.
Runs on a schedule
Does its work at set times through your cron job.
Reacts to orders, payments and tickets
Runs when these things happen.