We are providing a control panel with each dedicated servers to do some basic controls such as On, Off, Reboot, OS Reinstall, rDNS setup, Traffic monitoring etc.
The control panel link and login details will be available with the Welcome Email. You can simply reinstall the server from the panel. The steps are provided below:
- Login to the panel and use the details provided in the welcome email.
- Go to the 'Servers' section under Main Menu.
- Select the desired server which you need to reinstall.
- Click on 'Operations' option at the top.
- You can see a few dropdown boxes there with a different option. The first one will be 'Install OS from template' by default. Then select the required OS from the second box. If you need to set a hostname, please do it in the 3rd box. Then set a password and confirm the same. You can select the software RAID options as well if needed. Once all done, press OK.
- It will start the OS installation and you can see the progress from the server list screen under 'Status' option.
- It will take almost 15-30 minutes to complete based on the OS you have selected.