General VPS

All VPS servers include atleast 2 Terminal Service sessions and if you simply disconnect from your terminal services session or leave a session open on another computer you may try to log into your VPS and get the error message that all terminal service sessions are busy. The way around this is to log in [...]

Configure Web Service Extensions (IIS 6.0)   In order to take a more proactive stance against malicious users and attackers, Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed on members of the Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 family by default. Furthermore, when you initially install IIS, it is installed in a highly secure mode. By default, IIS serves [...]

Please note that ASP.NET 1.1 only supports 32-bit mode. ASP.NET 2.0 and above supports both 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode but can not run both 32-bit and 64-bit mode at the same time. If you need to run both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 based sites, you'll have to run IIS in 32-bit mode.   [...]

IIS6 can support both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. To switch IIS mode, it is necessary to perform the following commands: To enable 32-bit mode: cscript %SYSTEMDRIVE%inetpubadminscriptsadsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1 To enable 64-bit mode: cscript %SYSTEMDRIVE%inetpubadminscriptsadsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0 If you're running an ASP.NET application you will also need to reconfigure ASP.NET Settings. Please note that ASP.NET [...]

Some applications require you to install them via the console of a server. Since your windows VPS server is a virtual machine it has a virtual console that is remotely accessible via terminal services. To connect to the console port you'll type the command:  mstsc /console /v IPADDRESS.   Where IPADDRESS is the IP address of the [...]

For some odd reason Microsoft decided to leave this feature disabled by default, and place it within a optional feature set called "Desktop Experience." If your hard drive is getting full, and you wish to do a disk cleanup, there are two ways to enable the Disk Cleanup tool.  We recommend using Option #2 below [...]

We recommend running each web site on your server using its own application pool and identity (user)  The steps below demonstrate how to create an IUSR user, create a new application pool for the site, and create the web site. CREATE THE IUSER USER (WEB SITE IDENTITY): To create the web site user, go to [...]

This tutorial will show you how to configure a web site in IIS on your dedicated server or VPS server.This tutorial assumes you are not using a control panel system such as Helm or Plesk (if you are you should create the web site through your control panel directly)Open a Remote Desktop connection to your [...]

You can add users to your server to either password protect web pages or to allow FTP access.To add a user to your server, go to the 'Computer Management' tool under Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools:Expand the 'Local Users and Groups' folder and right-click on 'Users' and select 'New User...':Fill in the information [...]

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure DNS services on your dedicated server or VPS server. This tutorial assumes you are not using a control panel system such as Helm or Plesk (if you are then the DNS setup is automatically done for you when you add a domain to your server [...]