# Install Godspeed Mission Control on a server

Canonical: https://godspeedmissioncontrol.com/guide/install-server

A server is a Linux computer you rent from a hosting company, which stays on day and night. The company charges a monthly fee. You also need Telegram on your phone for the setup.

## Rent a server

Any hosting company works. Choose a server with:

- an Intel or AMD processor (often called x86-64), not ARM
- Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian, with nothing else installed on it
- about 8 GB of free disk

At Hostinger, for example:

1. Open [Hostinger's VPS plans](https://www.hostinger.com/vps-hosting?REFERRALCODE=GHNMICHAEJC8) (VPS is what they call a rented server), choose a plan and complete the checkout. Every plan fits.
2. When Hostinger asks which operating system to install, choose **Ubuntu 24.04** under **Plain OS**.

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## Install

1. Open your server's terminal, the window for typing commands. At Hostinger, open your server in the control panel and use its browser terminal. Elsewhere, type `ssh root@` and your server's address in a terminal on your own computer.
2. Paste this line and press Enter:

   ```bash
   curl -fsSL https://godspeedmissioncontrol.com/server | bash
   ```

3. Wait a few minutes while it sets everything up. You see lines like these:

   ```text
   Installing Godspeed Mission Control on this server.
   - Installing Docker, the program Godspeed runs in. This takes a few minutes.
   - Downloading Godspeed Mission Control (a few minutes).
   - Starting it.
   - Getting the security certificate for https://203-0-113-7.sslip.io (up to 5 minutes).
   ```

4. At the end it prints your server's address and a private link:

   ```text
   Your mission control is installed at https://203-0-113-7.sslip.io.

   To talk to it, open this private link in your browser to make your account:

     https://203-0-113-7.sslip.io/setup#invite=...
   ```

5. Open the private link in your browser.

> [!WARNING]
> The private link makes you the owner of this server. Do not share it. It works once, within 24 hours; running the line again gives you a new one.

## Next

[First setup: make your account and connect your AI](/guide/first-setup#on-a-server).

## Use your own domain name

Without a domain name, your server gets a free address made from its IP address, like `203-0-113-7.sslip.io`, with a real security certificate. To use your own name instead, point it at the server, then run:

```bash
curl -fsSL https://godspeedmissioncontrol.com/server | GODSPEED_HOST=mission.example.com bash
```

## If something is different

- **"This server is still installing its own updates."** A new server updates itself in its first minutes. The installer waits, up to 15 minutes, then carries on.
- **It stops with one sentence.** That sentence says what to fix, for example a busy port or a closed firewall. Fix it and run the same line again: nothing is lost. [Problems while installing](/guide/troubleshooting-install) lists them.