Get started with Coritan

Coritan runs hosting for you: game servers, databases, web services and static sites on App Deployment, virtual machines on Cloud Compute, Object Storage, Mail Hosting and SMTP Relay, domains and DNS, Edge Proxy, Game Shield, Floating IPs and DDoS Shield. You order and run all of it from one account, in the dashboard at coritan.com or through the API. This section takes you from a new account to a running service.

The home page at coritan.com has Sign up and Sign in in its header. Once you are signed in, the same place shows Dashboard.

1. Create an account with your email address, or with a new @coritan.gg mailbox.
2. Once account plans open on your account, choose what to do first: pick a goal, and set up the email and storage your plan includes.
3. Find your way around the dashboard: the sidebar, search and your credit balance.
4. Order a service: choose a product, a plan, a location and a billing cycle.
5. Manage your subscriptions: see every service in one list, with its status, its price and when it renews.
6. Tag your services so you can filter a long list.

Each of these tutorials takes one goal from start to finish, with every product it needs:

• Put a website online on your own domain, over HTTPS
• Set up email for your domain
• Run an app or a database
• Get a cloud server and sign in to it over SSH
• Store files and backups
• Start your own hosting brand
• Host a Minecraft server, from order to first join

If the words are new to you, Learn how hosting works explains domains, email, servers and storage, and the glossary defines each term.

• Make your first API request with an access token.
• The Coritan API section covers authentication, errors, rate limits and paging.

Each product has its own section:

• App Deployment for game servers, databases, web services from a git repository or a container image, and static sites
• Cloud Compute for virtual machines, called instances
• Object Storage and Snapshots
• Mail Services, for Mail Hosting and SMTP Relay
• Domain Management, Edge Proxy and Game Shield, Floating IPs and DDoS Shield
• Organizations, to sell Coritan products under your own brand

You pay for services from account credit or with a saved payment method. Most services have a billing cycle you choose when you order, and a web service, a Cloud Compute instance, a game server and a database are billed by what they use (How usage billing works). Billing explains credit, invoices, payment methods and hourly billing.

• Hourly billing, and anything billed by use, opens only after you have added a minimum amount of credit in total. How hourly billing works explains the rule.
• A Cloud Compute instance, a game server and a database need Server access, which Pro, Business and Enterprise include (How usage billing works).
• Bare metal servers, colocation and IP transit are not on the order pages. You arrange them with the sales team: see Bare metal, colocation and IP transit.
• For help at any point, contact support.