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Use the browser console

Reach your server's screen from the portal, without SSH or the network, and the keys the console adds for you.

2 min Updated 7 Nov 2026 Cloud VPS, Ryzen VPS

The console is your server's own screen, in your browser. It doesn't use the server's network, so it still works after a firewall mistake, a broken network setting or a lost key.

Open the server from Servers and choose the Console tab, then log in as root with the server's password.

Live from the portalThe Console tab, logged in on the serial screen
  1. 1Serial A text terminal, the one the console opens on. It keeps what has scrolled past, and you can copy from it.
  2. 2VNC The server's display, as a monitor would show it. Use it when Serial is blank, or while the server starts up.
  3. 3Paste Sends text to the console. If your browser won't hand over the clipboard, a box opens to paste into.
  4. 4Copy Copies the text you've selected on the Serial screen.
  5. 5Full screen Gives the console the whole screen.
  6. 6connected Says whether the console is connected to the server.
  7. 7Keyboard Brings up a phone's keyboard.
  8. 8Ctrl Holds Ctrl for the next key you press, so Ctrl then d sends Ctrl+D.
  9. 9Ctrl+C Stops the program running in the terminal.
  10. 10Copy SSH line Copies the command to connect over SSH, for when you're done here.
  11. 11Reset password Sets a new root password, if you don't have it.

Ctrl+Alt+Del appears in place of Copy on the VNC screen, and only works there.

If it says the server is stopped#

The console needs the server running. Press Start at the top of the page.

Live from the portalThe Console tab of a stopped server

If the server won't boot#

The console shows what the server prints as it starts, which is usually the first clue. If you can't fix it from there, the Rebuild tab has two ways out, under Your own ISO, or rescue mode:

  • Rescue mode starts a live system with your disk attached, so you can repair it without erasing anything. Press Ask for it.
  • Rebuild erases the disk and installs a fresh system. See Reinstall the operating system.
VPS Locked out of SSH Can't log in over SSH? Get back in through the browser console, then fix the password, key, firewall or setting that blocked you.VPS Reset the root password Forgotten the root password? Set a new one from the portal, without a reinstall and without touching your files.VPS Reinstall the operating system Put a fresh operating system on your VPS, the same one or another; the disk is erased, but the address, name and firewall stay.

Still stuck? Open a ticket and say which guide you followed.