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Diagnosing Connectivity Issues to your VPS Server

If you experience issues connecting to your VPS then follow these steps carefully. Open a...

EPYC VPS Support & Management for Linux

All EPYC VPS Servers are provided as self-managed, meaning that Absolute Hosting will provide the...

How to Allow or Whitelist noVNC in Your Antivirus Software

How to Allow or Whitelist noVNC in Your Antivirus Software If you're having trouble using noVNC,...

How to Force Windows Operating System Activation

In very few cases your Windows VPS may display a message that your Windows Operating system is...

How to Install CyberPanel & LiteSpeed on your EPYC VPS

The below guide will assist you in installing the CyberPanel control panel and LiteSpeed...

How to Share your VPS root / administrator password with the support department

In some cases it may be necessary to share your VPS root / administrator password with our...

How to change your SSH Public Key

This guide will show you how to change your SSH Public Key on an Absolute Hosting EPYC VPS...

How to check what version of .Net is installed on your Windows VPS

This guide will show you how to check what versions of .Net you have installed on your Windows...

How to create Firewall rules for your VPS server

Follow the below steps to create firewall rules for your VPS server.    Log into your...

How to create a PTR record for your VPS Server

Follow the steps below to create a PTR (reverse DNS) record for your VPS Server.    Log into...

How to enable ICMP on Windows Server

Open an elevated command prompt and paste the following command, and press enter netsh...

How to rename or change your VPS Host Name

Log in to the client service area and browse to services. On the services page click the Active...

How to secure Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) with a VPN

RDP brute force attacks are common and unless RDP is secured, you run the risk of having your...

How to secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

This guide will assist with creating two firewall rules to restrict access to RDP. The first...

How to set your Windows VPS DNS server to google's DNS sever

Follow the below steps to set the DNS server for your Windows VPS to google's server.  This can...

SSH Error Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)

You may experience an error Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)  when...

Unable to use SMTP (port 25) on VPS Server

Please be advised that we by default block all outbound traffic on port 25. Should you need to...

Understanding VPS Network Speeds

This article helps to explain the various network speeds available across our VPS servers and...

Windows Server VPS - the user account has been locked out because there were too many logon attempts

You may receive the error below when your administrator account has been locked after too many...