Topic: The Ultimate Guide to Dedicated Servers
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From this article, you will learn about Partition Alignment and how to do this. Introduction By "partition alignment," we mean the proper alignment of partitions to the physical sector boundaries of a data storage device (such as a hard drive, SSD, RAID volume). Correct partition alignment ensures o...
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With hot swapping, you can replace drives (HDDs/SSDs) while the system is running to minimize server downtime if a drive fails. Please read this article to help you prepare and perform a hot-swap exchange.
Compatibility
The majority of our new server models are hot-swap capable.
You can check w...
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This article provides an overview and some guides and examples for the IPMI interface.
Introduction
IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is an interface for the management and administration of servers. It is implemented with a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) of a motherboard. Yo...
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From this article, you will learn about Serial over LAN and how to activate it.
Serial Over LAN (SOL) is a mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port of a managed system to be redirected over IP. This is done through IPMI.
Activating serial over LAN
In order to activate SOL ...
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From this article, you will learn about main and additional IP addresses for centos
Main IP address
IPv4
Dedicated root servers
The main IP address of a dedicated root server usually comes from a /26 or /27 subnet. In order to prevent (accidental) adoption of foreign IP addresses, communication ...
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This article explains how to run a manual filesystem check and how to activate the automatic filesystem check for Linux and Windows systems.
Introduction
Filesystems organize how data is stored, but under some circumstances, the filesystem may become corrupted, and certain parts of it can become i...
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This article presents the reasons why products may be blocked and provides a guide on how to proceed in these situations.
Introduction
There are some situations in which we are forced to lock a product. Often this will be a single IP, but it can also apply to multiple IPs or even entire servers or...
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This article presents the reasons why you can blacklisted by Microsoft and provides a guide on how to proceed in these situations.
Microsoft maintains its own internal blacklists, which are used to reject emails coming from specific IP addresses. Any IPs listed on the Spamhaus blacklist are also ...
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This article describes the problem of Low performance with Intel i218/i219 NIC and how to workaround it.
Low performance with Intel i218/i219 NIC
Problem
With kernel version 4.15, a fix in the e1000e driver has been introduced: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b10effb92e272051dd1ec0d7be56...
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This article provides a guide for restoring a missing volume and the data on it when using LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
The problem/issue
The LVM meta data of a Linux system is corrupted and the drives or partitions are not displayed when executing, PVdisplay, LVdisplay or VGdisplay.
Restoring t...
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This article provides basic information on determining the serial number of hard drives and potential defects. How to determine the serial number of a driveIn Windows There is a tool in Windows which enables you to read the serial numbers of one or several drives. The program is called DiskID32 and ...
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From this article, you will learn about NVMe, it's characteristics, and NVMe-CLI.
Introduction
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a specification for accessing drives via PCI Express; it is specifically tailored to the needs of non-volatile memory. The connection via PCIe Gen3 x4 (32 GBit/s) of...
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From this article, you will learn about Additional IPs with Virtualization Solutions.
The network setup of all virtualization solutions is similar. Depending on the software, you can use one or more variants:
Bridged
Routed
NAT
Single IPs
If you want to use the bridged mode, and yo...
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In this article, you will learn about 10G uplink.
Introduction
We offer a 10G uplink for many of our dedicated servers. This replaces the 1G uplink. Only one uplink per server is possible. You can either directly order a new server with a 10G uplink, or write a support request and have an existing...
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From this article, you will learn about main and additional IP addresses.
Main IP address
IPv4
The main IP of a dedicated root server is usually located in a /26 or /27 subnet. In order to prevent the accidental use of a foreign IP address, our infrastructure rejects any Ethernet packets that are...
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From this article you will learn about network configuration using systemd-networkd.
Please note
With systemd version 238 net naming schemes were introduced. This means that if you're using predictable network interface names, network interfaces may be named differently depending on the booted sys...
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From this article, you will learn about VMware ESXi. General informationHardwareVMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.x and 6.0 (ESXi) use a filesystem called vmfs5 (formerly vmfs3), which uses GPT and supports drive sizes of up to 64 TiB (formerly 2 TiB).Software RAID is not supported by ESXi.The free versio...
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The following article describes how you can use additional single IPs conjunction with Hyper-V for virtual machines. With Hyper-V. you can only do this can by using virtual MAC addresses. You can get a MAC address for each additional single IP in the client's area. Roles and Features The required ro...
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This article introduces a Dell PowerEdge Quickstart Guide.
Introduction
Due to the customized nature of the Dell servers, we do not pre-install any operating systems, because we do not know what kind of RAID and hard drive configuration the client wants.
Once the server is online, you need to c...
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This article provides information about using a Dell PowerEdge Server Gen 12-13. How do I connect to the iDRAC? In the order completion mail, there are two IP addresses; one of them for the server itself and the other one for the iDRAC. There are also two sets of login details: one for the server it...
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This article provides information about using a Dell PowerEdge Server 14th generation. How do I connect to the iDRAC? In the order completion mail, there are two IP addresses; one of them for the server itself and the other one for the iDRAC. There are also two logins: one for the server itself, and...
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From this article, you will find general information about Root Server Upgrades. Upgrades for dedicated servers If you are interested in upgrading to a new dedicated root server, please send us a support request via the client's area. Include the following information: the upgrade option you want (s...
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This article is limited to showing you the corresponding Linux commands to illustrate the general concepts.IntroductionAll dedicated and virtual servers come with an IPv4 address, as well as a /64 IPv6 subnet.You can order additional IPv4 addresses via the client's area.Main addressThe main IPv4 add...
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This article provides information about IP addresses, the ordering process, and how we allocate them.
IPv4 addresses
You can order IPv4 addresses for your dedicated root server, colocation space, and vSwitch.
IPv6 Subnet
All servers have a /64 IPv6 subnet. For clients who received their servers ...
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This text explains some general background information on IPv4 and IPv6. Introduction IPv4 is a brilliant protocol that was developed to enable communication between computers on a network. This network would gradually develop into the Internet, the largest network of devices on Earth. The developer...
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This article describes how to activate and use the Rescue System.
Introduction
The Rescue System is a Debian based Linux live environment that allows you administrative access to your server, even if the installed system does not boot anymore. The environment starts using network boot (PXE) and ru...
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