Getting Started with Joyent
Create a Joyent Public Cloud Account
Here's a quick walk-though of how to open an account on the Joyent Public Cloud:
- Create an account. Provide your name, email, and create a user name and password.
- Enter your phone number and then your PIN to complete the phone verification security process.
- After this, you'll be asked to complete your billing information.
- Once that's complete, generate an SSH key for your account. This is a very important step of our security policy. SSH Guide: Windows | Mac OS X, Linux
- Once the SSH key is linked to your account, you'll be ready to provision a new machine.
About Billing and Verification
A valid and current credit card is required to open an account on Joyent Cloud. We will only start charging you once you provision or add new machines.
Generating an SSH Key
For detailed steps choose your operating system:
Provisioning a New Machine
From the Joyent Cloud portal, click 
in the upper right portion of the screen. Once you’re here, the tool will walk you through the choice of datacenters, machine images, types or sizes.
Which Data Center should I choose? Consider your business requirements of the customer, eg. where do you anticipate most of your traffic coming from, load requirements regionally, etc.
You can pick different operating systems, or machines that have been pre-configured with specific databases or tools like a loadbalancer or even equipped with cool development languages like Node.js.
You’ll have a chance to review the hourly cost of the machine, and once you’ve decided on the type of machine that fits your project, click the PROVISION button and the system will confirm that your machine has started.
From the Joyent Cloud portal you’ll be able to:
- Administer your account
- Review information about each machine
- Provision
- Start
- Stop
- Resize
- Reboot
- Assign tags
- Run performance analytics
Want more detail? Check out the Joyent Cloud Docs Visit the Dev Center for a list of additional next step Guides.