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# Quickstart

Get up an running quickly with our One-click installers.

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## Prerequiste

To use our one‑click installers, you need a Glesys Cloud account and a domain registered with us. If you don’t have an account, you can create one for free. If you don’t have a domain, you can purchase one in our control panel or transfer an existing domain to us.

## Create a VM

1. Click **Virtual machines** in the left-hand menu. It's located under the **Compute** category.
2. Next, click **+ Create** in the upper-right corner.
3. Select the **One-click installer** tab, next to the Distribution tab.
4. Select a template, such as GitLab, WordPress, Plesk, or Jitsi.
5. Select the data center where the VM should be placed.
6. Choose a subdomain and a domain for the service.
7. Choose a username and a password and/or SSH key.
8. Click **Create**.

## Connect to the service/VM

After the service is created, you'll receive instructions on how to access your new service and connect to it.

If you want to tweak something on the VM, use SSH to connect to it. The username is the one you created earlier when you created the service (or, in some templates, `root`). The hostname for the service is displayed when the service has been created.

For example, open a terminal on your computer and execute the following command: 

```
ssh username@myservice.example.com
```

## Delete a service

{% hint style="danger" %}
Deleting a service will delete all data associated with it, and the entire virtual machine that runs it.
{% endhint %}

1. Click on the VM that runs your service under **Virtual machines**. The VM name is the subdomain and domain you chose when creating the service. For example, for GitLab, this is probably something like `source.example.com`.
2. Click **Actions** in the upper-right corner and then **Delete server.**
3. In the *Delete* dialog box, you can choose to keep the VM's IP addresses in the current project.
4. Confirm the deletion by typing the name of the server in the text field that appears, and then click **Delete**.