Create server

Creates a new server in your account. To be able to do this properly you will need 3 key values: plan, region and credential.

These values are available here: Get server providers

You will also need to have server providers added to your account to be able to retrieve these. Setup new server providers in your account here: Server providers

POST api/servers

Required scopes:

Create servers

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Status	Description
name	string	optional	The server name, cannot contain any special characters and is alpha-numeric, if left empty a random name will be used
plan	string	required	The plan ID to install the server with
region	string	required	The region where to install the server with
credential	integer	required	The server provider from your account - Get server providers
type	string	required	Type of the server to install, must be either: `server`, `load-balancer`, `database-server` or `redis-server`
database_type	string	required	The type of database to install, must be either: `none`, `mysql`, `mariadb`, `postgresql` or `postgresql13`
webserver_type	string	required	The type of webserver to install, must be either: `nginx` or `nginx-apache`
os_type	string	optional	The OS version, defaults to the latest version available, available options: `ubuntu-18-04-lts`, `ubuntu-20-04-lts`, `ubuntu-22-04-lts`, `ubuntu-24-04-lts`
php_version	string	required	The PHP version installed, only applicable on the `server` type. Must be any of these values: `7.0`, `7.1`, `7.2`, `7.3`, `7.4`, `8.0`, `8.1`, `8.2`, `8.3`
description	string	optional	Allows you to send in an additional description for your server as note
install_monitoring	boolean	optional	Allows you to install Ploi monitoring as well, requires Pro plan or higher
webhook_url	url	optional	This URL gets triggered by Ploi when installation has completed, you can use this for your own system, this will only send 1 signal, there is no retry schedule, it will contain a ID of the server that is finished installing (contents of this URL down in this document)

Example request:

curl -X POST "https://ploi.io/api/servers" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
   --data '{ 
         "name": "awesome-server", 
         "plan": "1xCPU-1GB", 
         "region": "nl-ams1", 
         "credential": 1, 
         "type": "server", 
         "database_type": "mysql", 
         "webserver_type" : "nginx" 
    }'

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 201 CREATED
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "data": {
        "id": 2,
        "status": "created",
        "type": "server",
        "name": "awesome-server",
        "ip_address": "12.34.56.78",
        "php_version": 7.1,
        "mysql_version": 5.7,
        "sites_count": 0,
        "monitoring": false,
        "status_id": 0,
        "created_at": "2019-01-01 09:00:00"
    }
}

Contents of webhook URL data (optional webhook_url field)

Example response:

POST
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "message": "Server installation has completed",
  "server": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "calm-breeze"
  }
}