Network Configuration

Our automated installs comes with a predefined static network configuration, configured for your servers primary IP address. Our older automated installations came with a DHCP configuration per default.

Static configuration involves manual configuration of your servers network interface IP address, subnet mask, gateway and DNS servers, whereas with DHCP your server will regularly receive its network configuration from our DHCP server.

The procedure for configuring a static IP address for your servers network interface, is fairly straight forward. Refer to the documentation of your operating system.

Our DHCP server will assign IP addresses based on the servers MAC address from which the request originates. It will only assign a single IP address, which is the one selected as your servers primary IP address.

We always encourage you to check the network configuration after installing an operating system on your server.

DHCP vs. Static

With DHCP your server will regularly query our DHCP server for a network configuration.

However, if connection to the DHCP server is somehow lost during a query, your server may loose its IP configuration until the DHCP client re-queries the server.

With static network configuration applied, your server will not be affected by possible unavailability of our DHCP server.

We highly recommend setting up a static configuration for said reasons.