Guides

Playbooks for running this software in production.

The panel manual tells you what each command does. These tell you what order to do things in, what the software will not do for you, and what has to be true before you let a paying customer near any of it.

One guide, published

  1. 01

    How to start a hosting company with TulioCP

    What it takes to go from a bare Debian 13 box to a hosting business that can take an order, provision it, bill it, recover from a bad night, and survive the first month. Including the parts TulioCP and TulioBilling do not do for you.

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Editorial rules

What a page has to do to be published here

This section exists so the list above can grow without the standard slipping. It is also the fastest way to decide whether a guide here is worth your time: if one of these ever stops being true of a published page, that is a bug, and the issue tracker is where to say so.

  • Every command was read out of the source that implements it. Not recalled, not adapted from another panel's documentation. Where a guide quotes what a command prints, that output came from the script that prints it.
  • Versions come from one place. Package versions, release tags and hostnames are rendered from the same configuration the rest of this site uses, so a guide cannot quietly fall a release behind the downloads page.
  • The gaps are stated. A guide that walks you to the edge of what the software does has to say so plainly at the edge, not imply the rest is handled.
  • No invented evidence. No customer counts, no revenue figures, no testimonials, no promises about what a business built this way will earn.
  • Placeholders look like placeholders. Anything you must substitute is written <LIKE_THIS>, in capitals, so a pasted command fails loudly rather than doing something surprising.

The two public instances are for evaluation only

panel.tuliocp.com is a production host running the panel's built-in read-only demo mode with a login this site publishes on purpose, and billing.tuliocp.com is a demo of the billing application with signup closed and no payment gateway attached. Neither is a template for a production deployment, and the guides below say so again wherever it matters. Build your own, from apt.tuliocp.com.

Before the first guide

You need a machine to put this on.

Debian 13 on amd64, clean, with nothing else on it. The install path, meaning the public installer, the apt repository and the signing key, is one page away.