Here is our archive of technical documents, edited by Bytemark staff and sorted by tags so you can look by subject area.
It is our intention that these documents are the canonical source of information on how to use our service, and for prospective customers to see exactly how our systems should work. Please let us know if they don’t meet these criteria for you!
Documents:
- Overview of Virtual Machines
- Discussion on incoming network attacks
- Local mirrors at Bytemark
- Tuning your virtual machine
- Which host machine?
- 95th percentile billing
- Help us to help you
- My virtual machine is too slow
- Host machine SSH fingerprints
- Virtual Machine Shell
- Backup
- Backup ideas
- Accessing your backup space over NFS
- Accessing your backup space with rsync
- DNS
- Using rsync over SSL
- How the Domain Name System (DNS) works
- Content DNS (DNS hosting) service
- Using our DNS servers as BIND slaves
- Using our DNS servers as secondaries for Plesk
- IPv6
- Content DNS server example file
- Resolving DNS service
- Inside your VM
- How to rescue a stuck machine
- Setting the clock / NTP
- Halt and reboot inside your VM
- Using Bytemark's backup MX server
- Using Bytemark's SMTP / smarthost service
- Admin Shell
- Bytemark mail filtering service
- Dedicated server management
- Automated use of the admin shell
- The dedicated host shell
- Setting up Xen
- The fastdisc option
- Xen tools (creating and deleting guests)
- Admin shell reference
- Network booting setup
- Using the watchdog
- Rescue tips for dedicated servers
- Reinstalling your dedicated server
- Using Bytemark's anti-spam service under Plesk
- Locking down your SMTP server when using the Bytemark anti-spam service