Get Started with HiTechAdmin
The HiTechAdmin offers an administrator-level interface where you can efficiently handle tasks such as creating and managing users, setting up hosting plans, enabling features, and editing HiTechCloud settings.
HiTechAdmin is part of the Enterprise edition. On a Community server port 2087 is closed — it answers one page saying so, and nothing else: no dashboard, no login form, no API. Community runs entirely from the hosting panel on port 2083, which is also where a licence key is entered. See Community and Enterprise.
Requirements
- A fresh virtual machine or bare-metal server with an amd64 (x86_64) or arm64 (aarch64) CPU and a public IPv4 address.
- Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 or 26.04, Debian 11, 12 or 13, or AlmaLinux, Rocky, RHEL or Oracle Linux 8 and above.
- From 2 GB of memory for websites only, 4 GB with mail scanning, 8 GB for everything the installer offers.
The details, including what differs on AlmaLinux and RHEL 10 and which ports to open in a firewall in front of the server, are in System requirements.
Installation
HiTechCloud can be installed on both VPS and bare-metal servers.
The installation process takes about 5 minutes. To install hitechcloud follow these steps:
- Install script
- Cloud
- Other
- Log in to your new server;
- as root via SSH or
- as a user with sudo privileges and type "sudo -i"
- Copy and paste hitechcloud installation command into the terminal
bash <(curl -sSL https://hitechcloud.org)
The installation script supports optional flags that can be used to configure hitechcloud, skip certain installation steps or simply display debugging information.
If you encountered any errors while running the installation script, please copy & paste the installation log file to the community forums.
Post Install Steps
Recommended steps after installing HiTechCloud:
- Turn the firewall on (it is installed switched off):
hitechcloudcli firewall on - Review the customer portals (Mail, DNS, S3, on by default) in Server > Portals
- Access the HiTechAdmin panel
- Configure Domain and SSL for HiTechCloud
- Enable Modules (features) in HiTechCloud UI
- Configure Custom Nameservers
- Create Hosting Packages
- Create New User Accounts
- Set Email address to receive Alerts
- Change Update Preferences
- Secure HiTechCloud for Production Use