VPS Tutorial

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After receiving your login details to a Windows VPS, it’s always important to check to double check the settings to see if you your resources were allocated to your correctly.

You can check the RAM & CPU Processor here:

From this screen you can verify the CPU Cores allocated to your VPS.

Last, but now least the Disk Space allocation:

For this example, we’re using a ZAP1 from PhotonVPS which allocates the following:

512MB RAM

1 CPU Core

35GB Disk Space

Looks like we got everything we ordered!

If you signed up for a Windows VPS, here’s how you’ll connect to it:

If your using a Windows XP you can follow these simple directions below:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsXp/using/mobility/getstarted/Remoteintro.mspx#EQG

Using Windows Vista or Windows 7:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Connect-to-another-computer-using-Remote-Desktop-Connection

If your on OSX, I recommend using this Application:

http://cord.sourceforge.net/

After signing up for a VPS, you should be provider your login details anywhere from a couple minutes after sign up to 24 hours.  Anything longer than 24 hours and you should contact your provider to see what the hold up is.

Now you received your details you’ll connect to it via SSH if you have a Linux VPS:

If your running on Windows you’ll need to download PuTTY which can be found at this link:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

If your running on OSX, you’ll be able to connect using the Terminal application found the /Applications/Utilites/

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