A project is a folder for your stuff inside an organization. Anything you run with us - a VPS, a GPU instance, a dedicated machine, a cluster node, a colocation rack, a network port, or an add-on - lives inside exactly one project.
If you only ever order one or two things, you might never need more than the project we set up for you. If you run a lot, projects help you keep them tidy.
A simple way to think about it
The names sound similar, so they're easy to mix up. Here's the short version:
- An organization is who pays the bill and who can sign in.
- A project is how you sort what's running inside that organization.
A good rule of thumb:
- Want a completely different company name on invoices? You want a new organization.
- Want to keep your "production" stuff separate from your "testing" stuff, but under the same company? You want a new project.
Side-by-side comparisons
| Organization | Project | |
|---|---|---|
| Pays invoices, holds payment methods | Yes | No |
| Has a legal name and billing address | Yes | No |
| Holds API keys, ASNs, BGP settings | Yes | No (but an API key can be limited to a project) |
| Has team members and roles | Yes | Yes (technical and read-only roles are project scoped) |
| Holds your actual servers and services | No | Yes |
Finding projects in the sidebar
Your projects live in the left sidebar, under the heading Projects.
- Click a project's name to make it the active project. The categories below it (Cloud, GPU Cloud, Metal, Clusters, Storage, Transit) and the Order new button all start acting on that project.
- The dashboard, your resource lists, and the order forms all follow the active project too.
- Switching projects swaps everything in place - you don't need to reload the page.
The default project
Every organization has one project marked Default. Think of it as the "home" project - new resources land there when nothing else is chosen.
For example:
- A teammate orders something but doesn't pick a project? It lands in the default.
- A project gets deleted? Anything left over moves to the default.
You can't delete the default project. If you want a different project to be the default, contact support and we'll switch it for you.
How many projects can I have?
Each organization can have up to 3 projects to start. If you need more, just contact support - there's no hidden upgrade button to find, we'll bump the limit for you.
Who can see and do what in a project
Project roles only apply to two kinds of members:
- Technical: can manage the resources inside the project.
- Read Only: can look but not touch.
Owners, admins, and billing members of the organization automatically get access to every project. You don't need to add them one at a time - they're always in.
For the full breakdown of every role, see Roles and Permissions.