1&1 Cloud Servers are a good balance between a dedicated server and shared hosting. One of the best attractions to such a service is the ability to grow the spec of your server over time as your needs grow.

This is the situation I was in when I upgraded my server for an extra 1GB of Ram and 100GB disk. The CentOS images provided by 1&1 is not built on top of LVM and therefore cannot take advantage of being able to grow your partition without data loss and while the system is live - something that LVM provides.

Not a big fan of generic error messages like the above, but that's what I was stuck with when trying to start the DHCP service on one of my Windows Server 2003 boxes. This box was not registering itself in DNS correctly and the DHCP service has to be running for this to work, even if I was not assigning the IP via DHCP.

After a morning hunting around the web I found the following fix...