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ohrana posted this at 15:20—25th March 2008.

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Can anyone enlighten me on this?
What's KVM access used for?

JeevesBond posted this at 20:46—25th March 2008.

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In my experience KVM means keyboard, video, mouse, but that's from KVM switches.

Do they mean that you can control the keyboard and mouse, and see the video. That's what I'd assume, something like SSH access. Why you'd need a mouse on a Web server is beyond me though. Smiling

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demopaul posted this at 09:12—26th March 2008.

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That's sort of remote access you can get to the server
http://kvm-switch.blogspot.com/2004/05/whats-difference-between-kvm-exte...

knorr posted this at 14:55—28th March 2008.

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What does it give?

Freedom posted this at 14:27—9th April 2008.

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Additional options IMO?

birch posted this at 08:05—11th April 2008.

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KVM, or console access is usually provided in colocation and dedicated hosting plans to access your server in case of emergency. I'm not sure if all hosts provide that, but I have seen this in Globaltap.com colo plans
http://www.globaltap.com/colo.html