Machines

A machine is the dedicated compute environment where your apps run. Each machine has its own CPU, memory, storage, and networking — fully isolated from other users.

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Provisioning

When you sign up and create your first organization, Nixopus automatically provisions a machine for you. There’s nothing to configure — the platform detects that you don’t have a machine yet and starts the provisioning process.

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What happens behind the scenes

1. Initializing — Nixopus allocates resources for your machine.
2. Creating machine — The compute environment is created and configured.
3. Configuring SSH — Secure access is set up so you can use the built-in terminal.
4. Setting up networking — Port forwarding, reverse proxy, and your *.nixopus.ai subdomain are configured.
5. Verifying — Nixopus confirms the machine is reachable and healthy.
6. Complete — Your machine is ready. You’ll see a notification: “Your machine is ready!”

Provisioning typically takes under a minute. If it fails, you can retry from the dashboard — Nixopus will pick up where it left off.

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Machine states

Your machine can be in one of these states: The current state is always visible on your machine card in the dashboard.

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Lifecycle actions

You can manage your machine from the actions menu on the machine card:

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Restart

Restarts the machine. Use this if your apps are behaving unexpectedly or after configuration changes that require a fresh start. Your apps will experience brief downtime during the restart.

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Pause

Suspends the machine. Your apps stop serving traffic and no compute is consumed while paused. Data and configuration are preserved. Use this when you’re not actively using the machine and want to save credits.

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Resume

Brings a paused machine back to the Running state. Your apps become accessible again within seconds.

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Machine resources

Each machine comes with allocated resources based on your plan: Resources are dedicated to your machine — not shared with other users.

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Upgrading

Need more CPU, memory, or storage? Contact us at raghav@nixopus.com with your organization name and the resources you need. Self-service machine upgrades are on the roadmap.

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Adding machines

Nixopus is designed to support multiple machines per organization. You’ll be able to add machines in different regions, distribute apps across them, and manage your fleet from one dashboard. Planned capabilities:

• Add machines — spin up additional machines from the dashboard
• Replicate — duplicate an existing machine’s configuration to a new instance
• Multi-region — deploy machines across regions for lower latency
• Load balancing — distribute traffic across machines automatically

Want early access to multi-machine features? Reach out at raghav@nixopus.com.

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Machine billing

Machine usage is part of your Nixopus Cloud plan. Your subscription covers the compute resources allocated to your machine. See credits for how usage billing works. When your machine is paused, no compute is consumed — only storage is retained.