Everything you need to run PacketStream Lite
Practical guides, references, and operational notes — written and maintained by the engineers who run the platform.
18 guides across 6 categories · Last refreshed Apr 2026
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Six categories covering everything from your first deploy to network tuning, billing, and account security.
Getting Started
What PacketStream Lite is, how to deploy your first VPS, sign-in basics, and locking the new VM down with a firewall.
- What is PacketStream Lite?→
- Deploy your first VPS in under 60 seconds→
- Sign-in, accounts, and verification→
4 guides
Compute & Instances
Plan families, the Korea data center we run in, and console (VNC) access for your VMs.
- Understanding the five plan families→
- Where your instances run→
- Use the VNC console for recovery→
3 guides
Networking
Bandwidth, daily traffic, China Optimized profile, and additional IP allocations.
- How daily traffic allowance is calculated→
- When to choose the China Optimized network profile→
- Adding IPv4 blocks and BGP / BYOIP→
3 guides
Storage
NVMe vs HDD plans, and the disk performance policy that scales with disk size.
- NVMe vs HDD: choosing the right storage profile→
- Instance disk performance (IOPS & throughput)→
2 guides
Billing & Plans
Stripe payments, traffic credits, monthly vs annual cycles, and invoicing.
- Payment methods and Stripe billing→
- Traffic credits, monitoring, and overage handling→
- Annual billing and the 15% discount→
3 guides
Account & Security
Two-factor auth on your PacketStream identity, SSH key management, and a hardening baseline for your VMs.
- Two-factor authentication→
- SSH keys: managing access to your instances→
- Hardening your VPS→
3 guides
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