Accessing your server via Remote Desktop (Windows OS)

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The Windows Server operating system is most often accessed and managed through a protocol called RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol. This provides you with a graphical interface of your Windows Server that looks and acts just like a standard Windows OS, like the one you have on your Home PC.

Credentials

You’ll be able to log-in to your HostVenom VPS that’s running Windows Server 2019/2022 using the credentials provided to you in the VPS Welcome email sent to you by HostVenom at the time of purchase.

You’ll want to use the credentials and IPv4 address provided in the “Server Details” section of the email, shown in the image to the right.

A HostVenom VPS Welcome email for a Basic Trading VPS with a green box surrounding the “Server Details” section in the middle.

Connecting

Using the credentials provided in the aforementioned email, you can log-in to your VPS’s RDP server using the Windows RDP client on your Windows PC by following the steps outlined below.

RDP Application

First, you’ll want to launch the Remote Desktop Connection application. You can do this by opening the start menu on your Home PC and typing “Remote Desktop Connection” into the start menu. If you have a search bar directly in your taskbar, that can be used as well.

As you start to type the name of the program into the Start Menu, you should see the program appear in the results in a similar way

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