After creating a Windows pre-install, we recommend you follow these steps to patch and secure your newly deployed Windows server:
Our VLANs are a great way to privately network your servers. The physical network infrastructure over which the VLANs run has no contact with the Internet. And, best of all, network traffic over VLANs is not metered.
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Among the first things you should do after deploying Windows at Open Hosting is enable our platform firewall and enable Microsoft Remote Desktop. Continue reading “Windows Security & Remote Desktop” »
Open Hosting now offers network firewalls. As of today, you can buy a network firewall for your server for $2/month.
The firewall is very simple. Click “enabled” and specify the UDP and TCP ports you want left open in a space-separated list. For instance:
Once you’ve enabled, the red firewall icon will appear besides your server.
The firewall is platform-level, operating independently of your server it blocks traffic before it hits your server.
As of today, we’ve reduced the price of VLANs by to $2/month.
In addition, servers may now join multiple VLANs – up to three.
And, as an added convenience, VLANs can now be tagged with a name, like “database network.”
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Among the new features launched today: an FTP service that allows users to upload and download drives from their accounts.
We’re often asked if existing servers, operating systems, or ISOs can be uploaded into an account. And, so many times we say, Yes, by way of the “API. Or, if the image is very modest in size, use the ‘upload’ button on the drive-detail page.” But, mostly, folks do want to move large files and understandably don’t want to bothered with the API.
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