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” »
This applies to both our pre-installed Windows builds and Windows servers you’ve uploaded yourself. In other words, all Windows. These particular directions were written using Windows 2008 Server. Continue reading “Windows Servers: Disk Resizing” »
What if you’ve already purchased a Windows license? Or, what if you want to run a version of Windows other than those we offer? In either case, you might elect to bring your own OS.
I’m going to demonstrate how to upload an ISO and install from it. For this example, I’m going to use Windows 7. But, these instructions should get you through the installation of any OS. They are, in fact, how we upload our pre-installed images.
While we have decent selection of Linux and Windows pre-installed servers available, there are enough Linux builds to fill a Panamax freighter with DVDs. And, while we have Windows servers, we’ve only a few and they require that you pay the licensing costs through us.
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This post might also be called, “How to Install Cygwin for Use With Open Hosting’s API…” Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. And, it is the easiest path to our API from a Windows machine. A correctly installed and configured Cygwin will allow you to exercise the entire API library just as easily from Windows as from Linux or OSX. There are three parts to this tutorial: installing Cygwin, installing the API scripts, and configuring a Cygwin session to connect with the API. |
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