Connect your Contabo account

Step 1 Find your API credentials

Sign in to the Contabo Customer Control Panel and open API. The page shows your Client ID and Client Secret. Your API User is the email address you sign in to Contabo with.

Step 2 Set an API password

On the same page, set an API Password. It is a separate password for the API only, not your Customer Control Panel password. If you set one before and don’t remember it, set a new one.

A new API password stops anything that still uses the old one, including a Contabo account already connected to Nuvlo. Update it there with Manage.

Step 3 Open Server providers in Nuvlo

In Nuvlo, open Integrations → Server providers (go there). Choose Add provider, then Contabo.

Step 4 Enter the four credentials

Optionally enter an Account label, then fill in all four fields: Client ID, Client secret, API user and API password. Connect account stays disabled until every field has a value.

Choose Connect account. Nuvlo signs in to the Contabo API and lists your servers to prove the credentials work before it saves them.

Step 5 Check that the account is connected

The account appears under Connected accounts with the status Not in use until your first server is linked to it.

Step 6 Choose a region, plan and contract term

Open Servers and create a server (start here). Choose Contabo, your account and New server, then choose what you will host.

On Region & plan, pick a region and a plan family. Under Shared resources, Core is Cloud VPS with SSD storage and Performance is Cloud VPS Plus with AMD EPYC vCPUs and NVMe storage. Under Dedicated resources, Max Performance is Cloud VDS with dedicated cores and NVMe storage.

Under Contract term, pick how long you commit. Longer terms lower the monthly rate, the same for every plan family:

The plan prices change to the monthly rate of the term you pick. Below the terms, Nuvlo shows the Upfront total you pay Contabo for the whole term, excluding VAT. Hover or tap the info icon next to it for How Contabo billing works.

• The whole term is charged at once, at the start.
• At the end of the term, the contract renews automatically for the same length and at the same price.

Step 7 Set the root password

On Configure server, name the server and choose SSH keys as usual. Contabo servers also get a Root password. It only works in Contabo’s VNC console, as a way in if SSH ever stops working. Password login over SSH stays turned off.

• Auto-generate: Nuvlo creates a strong password and shows it to you once the server is created. You can show it again later on the server page.
• Set my own: you type the password. It is sent to Contabo and never stored by Nuvlo. It needs 8–72 characters, upper and lower case letters, and either 1 digit and 2 special characters or 3 digits and 1 special character.

Only the account owner or an admin can set or see a root password.

Step 8 Review and order the server

On Review, check the Contract term, Monthly cost and Upfront total. Then choose Create server. This places the order at Contabo.

ImportantThe whole term is charged when you order, even if you cancel during setup. A cancelled server runs until the paid period ends, then Contabo removes it.