Deploying to FastComet via DeployHQ: Automated Web Deployment

Deploying to your site hosted with FastComet is very simple with DeployHQ. FastComet offers shared hosting, cloud VPS, and dedicated servers across 12 global data centres.

Firstly, you'll need to set up your DeployHQ project, then connect to your FastComet server.

Setting up your project

Head to the Projects screen in DeployHQ, then click the New Project button to get started.

You'll be prompted to enter a name for your project, then select where your repository is hosted.

Next, click Create project and you'll be taken to a screen where you can log in with your repository hosting account to authorise access and then choose your repository.

• Adding a Bitbucket repository
• Adding a Codebase repository
• Adding a GitHub repository
• Adding a GitLab repository
• Adding a repository manually

Setting up FastComet

Once you've configured your repository, you'll need to connect to your FastComet server. There are two important things to know:

1. FastComet uses port 17177 for SSH and SFTP (not the standard port 22)
2. You must whitelist DeployHQ's IP addresses before connections will work

Whitelisting DeployHQ's IPs

FastComet blocks all SSH/SFTP connections unless the connecting IP is explicitly whitelisted:

1. Log in to the FastComet Client Area
2. Navigate to your hosting account
3. Find the SSH Access section
4. Add DeployHQ's IP addresses to the whitelist

Without this step, DeployHQ will not be able to connect to your server.

Finding your credentials

Your connection details can be found in cPanel:

• Hostname: Found in cPanel under Server Information (e.g. serverXX.fastcomet.com), or use the server IP address
• Username: Your cPanel username
• Password: Your cPanel password
• Port: 17177

Note: Only the main cPanel account works for SFTP — FTP sub-accounts cannot use SFTP. Also, SSH is not available on the FastCloud Starter plan (the cheapest tier).

Adding the server in DeployHQ

Head to Servers & Groups, and click the New Server button at the top of the screen. If you've just added your repository, you will have been taken to this page automatically.

Start by entering a name, and choosing SSH/SFTP as the protocol. Enter your hostname, username, password, and port 17177.

For the deployment path, enter /home/USERNAME/public_html for your primary domain (replace USERNAME with your cPanel username). Addon domains have their own subdirectories under your home folder.

Within Deployment options, you can choose to automatically deploy your server and, if you're only deploying files from a certain directory in your repository, enter a Deployment subdirectory.

Click Create Server to finish, then you can proceed to start your first deployment.

Run your first deployment

By default, DeployHQ will upload the whole repository to your server on the first deployment, because there is no previously deployed commit to compare to.

If your files are already on FastComet and up to date with the latest commit, you can follow this guide to skip that first deployment:

• Don't deploy your whole repository on the first deployment

Otherwise, just follow this guide to start your first deployment, then after the first deployment, only files that have changed will be uploaded in future.

• Running your first deployment

That's it! You've now set up and run your first deployment to your FastComet server and your future changes will be uploaded for you automatically, or at the simple click of a button.

Further reading

DeployHQ has a number of very useful features to help with your deployments in general that you might wish to find out more about:

• Compiling assets and javascript with the Build pipeline
• Running commands on your server with SSH commands
• Stop certain files from being uploaded in deployments using Excluded files
• Keep important files safely away from your repository using Config files
• Keep your team in the loop and run other useful tasks during a deployment with our Integrations