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Does SolVPS store credit card information?

By SolVPS | Published: July 9, 2014

In order to assure maximum security of customer information, we have opted to outsource 100% of financial data storage and processing to our bank (JPMorgan Chase Bank). Credit card data entered into our website is passed directly to our bank via encrypted SSL encryption. Credit card information is not stored or held on our servers at any […]

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Additional Capacity Added for USA VPS Deployments in New York City

By SolVPS | Published: July 8, 2014

Today we are very excited to announce that our USA VPS hosting infrastructure has been expanded and improved in New York City. The upgrades were necessary after strong demand for the New York VPS location throughout June and into July. To meet demand of incoming orders, we have deployed several additional compute nodes, adding additional […]

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How does SolVPS protect the privacy of its customers?

By SolVPS | Published: July 3, 2014

SolVPS has specifically formulated its Privacy Policy, and related internal policies, to guarantee the protection of web hosting customers’ information. We are absolutely committed to the security of all customer accounts, and we will never disclose your personally identifying information or hosted data to an outside party. We will never use your personally identifying information, or hosted data, for any […]

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“Remote desktop connection can’t connect to the remote computer” – RDP Connection with Windows

By SolVPS | Published: July 1, 2014

You may receive an error like the following when connecting to your Windows VPS or other Windows server with RDP:This error usually indicates that the Windows VPS is offline. If the VPS is newly deployed, wait 3-5 minutes and try again. If you had previously connected to the VPS, wait and try again, as the error […]

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How soon are new VPS instances setup?

By SolVPS | Published: June 30, 2014

We’ve put a lot of work into our platform to make new VPS deployments as smooth an user-friendly as possible. In most cases, VPS instances are deployed within 1 minute, and become available within 2 to 3 minutes (Windows takes this long to complete initial setup; Linux usually boots up instantaneously).If your service is not deployed immediately, please […]

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How to Connect to Windows VPS with RDP (Windows 7)

By SolVPS | Published: June 29, 2014

Connecting to a remote Windows server or Windows VPS from your Windows 7 PC is easy with Microsoft’s own Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) program. It is included with most versions of Windows.  How to Connect 1. To launch RDC, open the Start menu of your computer and search for “Remote Desktop Connection“. (If you can’t find it, run Start > Run > mstsc.exe). Enter your VPS or […]

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How to SSH Connect to Linux VPS with Windows, Mac, Linux

By SolVPS | Published: June 28, 2014

The primary way to connect to your Linux VPS is via command line, with the use of a SSH client. To connect to your VPS with SSH (command line), you will require one of the following programs: Putty, available for all versions of Windows: Putty Downloads (Hosted by SolVPS) WinSCP, available for all versions of Windows: WinSCP Downloads (Hosted by SolVPS) Terminal.app, packaged […]

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How to Ping a VPS from Windows and Linux

By SolVPS | Published: June 28, 2014

Ping is a useful tool for checking if a VPS is online and responsive to outside connections. With certain exceptions, a server will always “ping” when it is online and available. To ping a VPS or another server, open Command Prompt on Windows, or Terminal on Mac OS X / Linux.Enter the IP address of the remote server with the ping command:ping 0.0.0.0 Replace […]

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