Bare Metal Servers

This guide shows you how to effectively manage BMC servers by using phoenixNAP APIs. This includes Server Tag Manager API, Audit Log API, Multi-Private Backend Network API

Developers of applications with low hardware requirements do not need high-performance servers. Instead, they can opt for cost-effective solutions providing high availability. Bare metal cloud technology allows you to delegate the critical testing work to affordable cloud instances. This article will show you how to set up a sandbox environment on a small server instance using Rancher and Kubernetes.

The s0.d1.small Bare Metal Cloud instance can serve as a platform for many purposes, utilizing compute, memory, and network resources in a balanced way. This guide shows how to set up a firewall on the small BMC instance.

Load balancing helps maximize the server farm resources, avoiding overloads. Learn how you can set up phoenixNAP's cheapest BMC instance as a load balancer in this tutorial.

Big data servers are servers specifically made for collecting and analyzing unstructured and constantly expanding data from various sources. Learn about the hardware specifications and what software runs on big data servers in this article.

Learn what cloud-init is and explore its capabilities for automating cloud instance initialization and customizing Linux-based OSs. Customize virtual machines provided by a cloud vendor by modifying the generic OS configuration on boot.

Using Rancher is an easy way to streamline cluster deployment on bare metal and private/public clouds. Rancher provides a web UI and proxy for managing a Kubernetes cluster. This article will provide details setting up a Rancher-controlled cluster using the phoenixNAP BMC portal.

Calculate hybrid cloud costs by considering the factors that impact the budget the most.

This tutorial explains how to encrypt a BMC drive using the phoenixNap EMP platform as well as how to automate the unlocking process. Follow this three part tutorial to secure your disk.

Introduction Fail2ban is a software that protects your server from brute force attacks. It does this by monitoring server logs and detecting any suspicious activity. The program detects when there is an unreasonable number of failed attempts and automatically adds new to iptables that block the given IP. This IP (or host) is then blocked for a specified […]