Servers

To get started with your first website, you most likely want to create your first server.

Getting started

Choose your project from the project overview and click the settings-icon . Now choose "Create Server".

FQDN

A server requires a full-qualified domain name to get created. This name has to be unique in your project.

Roles

A server can have multiple roles at once. At the moment, you can choose webserver and database server roles. It is also possible to define no role at all. The server will then be configured as a blank server, which provides a base system containing all your team's users.

Provider related data

As your server is going to be built in the Hetzner Cloud, you need to set up a few things here.

Location and type

First, choose the preferred location and server type. Prices are calculated based on the current Hetzner pricing information.

Backup

No backup, no mercy. You should enable backups by default. If you disable backups, the server's configuration state will still be saved in rootli and can be rebuilt, but your custom contents like databases or website data are not tracked by rootli.

Local backups

Rootli manages local backup creation. If enabled, rootli will store the content of:

• /home
• /var/www/vhosts, if the server has the Caddy Webserver role
• /var/backups/rootli/mariadb/current, if the server has the MariaDB Database Server role

These data will be stored incrementally in a local repository, with a retention policy, which keeps:

• 3 annual snapshots
• 24 monthly snapshots
• 4 weekly snapshots
• 7 daily snapshots
• 10 latest snapshots

Of course, you are free to define your own backup job schedules and remote storage backends after server creation.

Cloud VM backups

Cloud VM backups are snapshots, which are created by the cloud provider. In general, this feature is priced by the cloud provider.