Switchlink, for several years has been one of the UK’s fastest growing Virtual Server providers and now, coupled with its manages services team, Switchlink have publically launched their Hosted Sage services. Unlike their Switchlink Unmanaged solutions, HostedSage.co.uk will specialize in provisioning and manages Private Cloud solutions for Small, Medium and Large enterprises across Europe. Built [...]
We have just added Ubuntu 10.04 onto our OpenVZ Virtualization platform and is now available to order.
Following up on the email sent to our customers, there is a maintenance window @ 00:00 to 02:00 on the 16th of September 2010. This will effect all Switchlink customer and is Phase one of the upgrades. If you’re VPS is offline after 02:00, please contact support.
We have noticed that their has been some issues with our ticket system over the last 4 hours. Some emails were not getting through to our ticket system, for this we apologise. This was only effected replies to existing tickets, and not new cases. If you have submitted a response after 3:30PM and received no [...]
This article will work on standard server or virtual server installations aswell. Our XEN HVM Virtual Servers are setup for eth0 to obtain it’s primary IP address via DHCP. This is true of all our Linux configurations. However, when you have multiple IP addresses on your virtual server, you will need to manually assign the [...]
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One sticking point of the Microsoft Firewall for Windows Virtual Server users is that you cannot define firewall rules before turning on the firewall, thus disabling your access to the system. Using the following command at a command prompt will allow add an Remote Desktop rule to the Windows Firewall before enabling it, thus ensuring [...]
First things first, we have to setup your name servers. To do this, you’ll need a domain, and at least 2 Unique IP Addresses. When you log into PLESK and add your first domain, it will automatically create some DNS Records on the server. These can be seen by going into the “DNS Settings” for [...]
Yes you can run IRC/Proxy on our VPS platform. The VPS is your dedicated server, as long as nothing illegal or infringing on our Terms of Service is run there is no problem.
This can be done using the following commands when logged in as root via SSH on the Parallels Plesk Panel (PPP) server: Parallels Plesk Panel for Linux: [text]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/psa stopall # /etc/rc.d/init.d/psa start[/text]