Hetzner VPS Setup & NoMachine RDP Guide

VPS Setup Guide on Hetzner Cloud

Click on "**New project**"

Click here

Click on "**Add project**"

Click on Project you want to create a VPS in

Click on "**Create Resource**"

Click on "**Servers**"

Select your preferred region "**Ashburn, VA**"

Select OS

Select Architecture

Select VM Size

Uncheck IPV6

Select a Unique Name for your VPS

Click on "**Create & Buy now**"

After your VPS is created - Launch the VPS Using the Console Button

Login using the Root Username & Password Provided in Email -- It will prompt you to change the password on initial login.

Optionally - You can install Ubuntu Desktop on your VPS using "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop"

NoMachine to enable a better Remote Desktop solution to manage your VPS.

To install NoMachine, you need to download the .deb package from its official website. Considering the modern infrastructure of Hetzner Cloud, you probably need to download the amd64 architecture. If you're not sure, you can use dpkg --print-architecture to get your architecture.

At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest version (8.8) of NoMachine can be downloaded with the following command:

wget https://download.nomachine.com/download/8.8/Linux/nomachine_8.8.1_1_amd64.deb

Then, install the .deb package:

sudo dpkg -i nomachine_8.8.1_1_amd64.deb

Finally, check out the NoMachine download page, and install the NoMachine client based on your local device that will connect to the server. Run the NoMachine client in the local device, click the Add button, fill the host with your server's public IP address, and leave other parameters as default.

Next, click the Connect button and enter your Ubuntu username (e.g., root as default) and password. If you've not set the password yet, you can simply do it interactively with passwd command.

Link for More Advanced Instructions for NoMachine https://kb.nomachine.com/DT07S00245