
How to reinstall your OS over IPMI
Every dedicated machine ships with out-of-band access, so a reinstall is yours to run at 3 a.m. without a ticket. The order of operations, and the three places it usually goes wrong.
How-tos and reference material for running servers on an unmetered network — configuration, capacity, transfers and the questions our engineers answer most often.

Every dedicated machine ships with out-of-band access, so a reinstall is yours to run at 3 a.m. without a ticket. The order of operations, and the three places it usually goes wrong.

The first fifteen minutes after handover: a real user account, key-only SSH, a firewall that defaults to closed, and updates that install themselves.

Measure what your server is actually delivering, and raise the kernel defaults that cap a multi-gigabit link before you blame the network.