How to configure Windows Software RAID

Depending on the amount of drives you have in your system you are able to setup the following RAID sets. RAID Performance/Fail Minimum Drives RAID-0 (striped) No redundancy. 2 RAID-1 (mirrored) 1 drive can fail. 2 RAID-5 (striped with distributed parity) 1 drive can fail (better performance). 3 To manage our RAID sets we will […]

Read More

Change the RDP port on Windows Server

Changing the port 1. Open regedit by pressing Windows key + r and typing regedit: 2. Navigate to the following navigation within your registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp And locate the PortNumber property. 3. Right-click PortNumber and click Modify. The following window will open where we will have to make sure the base is set to Decimal. […]

Read More

How to configure IPv6 on Windows Server 2022

You can contact us to assign an IPv6 to your server. By default, we will assign a 1 /64 subnet to your server. This means you have access to 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IPv6 hosts! Best of all, the first /64 subnet is free! We configure these subnets with the default gateway set to the :1 address, so […]

Read More

How to do a speed test

Due to many false positives and the way speedtest.net is being used to test we hereby give you a better solution to test your network speed. The speedtest.net application uses only one transfer thread with a single server. As we don’t know the actual network load or speed of the nearest speedtest.net server this is […]

Read More

Windows Software RAID-5

RAID-5 provides fault tolerance and increased read performance. At least three (3) drives are required. RAID-5 can sustain the loss of a single drive. In the event of a drive failure, data from the drive is reconstructed from parity striped across the remaining drives. As a result, both read and write performance are severely affected […]

Read More

Windows Software RAID-0

RAID-0 combines two or more drives to increase performance and capacity but does not provide fault tolerance. A single drive failure will result in the loss of all data on the array. RAID-0 is useful for non-critical systems where a high price/performance balance is required. RAID-0 is almost never used with the boot drive, if […]

Read More

Windows Software RAID-1

RAID-1 is most often implemented with two drives. Data on the drives are mirrored, providing fault tolerance in case of drive failure. A single drive failure can be sustained without data loss. RAID-1 is often used when fault tolerance is key, while space and performance are not critical requirements. Please take a look at our […]

Read More

How to add an additional IP on your Windows server

In this article we will explain how you can add a second IP address to your Windows server. In this example we used a Windows 2019 server. Adding an IP on other versions differs slightly. But you should still be able to follow this tutorial. Before you can add an extra IP to your server […]

Read More

Windows firewall basics

In this tutorial, we will explain some common uses of the Windows firewall. For the examples in this article, we used Windows 2019 Standard. In other versions of Windows, the examples might differ slightly or found at a different location(s). If you have any trouble with following this article using another Windows version feel free […]

Read More