How secure is Windows RDP? By default, a Remote Desktop session is operated via an encrypted channel which prevents anyone to view your session by network listening methods. Although this is a secure method, it is still susceptible to “man-in-the-middle-attack” to a certain degree as well as a form of brute-force attacks or simple guesses if the attacker has any info on your general...
MetaTrader , as the name suggests, is a platform designed for trading Forex. It is available on several systems like Windows or Linux. This tutorial will cover Linux installation on a RDP-enable VPS. Prerequisites: An Ubuntu RDP-enabled linux VPS. You can find one at MVPS.NET, the minimum recommended is the Basic variant. Putty or any other SSH client. The installation process is comprised of...
Resilio Sync (formerly known as BitTorrent Sync) is a P2P file transfer tool based on the torrent protocol. Its main advantages compared to classic transfer tools are speed, simplicity and the very foundation it was built on: torrent-style transfers. In simple terms, the more “nodes” you have the faster the information can be uploaded or downloaded, at the same time. This tool works...
TW_CLI is a CLI tool for 3Ware RAID cards configuration. It provides in-depth control, various RAID configurations, monitoring and general tweaking of the present devices. The following are a few examples of some useful commands. You can either invoke the tool by 1. inserting tw_cli followed by enter or 2. run the commands directly by including the tw_cli as the first argument. tw_cli > Enter...
HPACUCLI or HP Array Configuration Utility is the tool to use when it comes to HP Array controllers on HP servers. The tools helps configure all the specifics and parameters related to the array controller of the server. It is available in CLI and GUI and has quite a few useful commands. First off, abbreviations you should know about: drivewritecache = dwc controller = ctrl logicaldrive = ld...
Security is the 1st priority for a stable running online machine and should not be neglected at any time. Some may forget that even though viruses do not “exist” on linux, some types of malware can wreak havoc on your system. Linux Malware Detect (or LMD) is a nifty little tool which uses the ClamAV engine. In the following tutorial, I will show you how to install and use it. 1...
There comes a time when the control panel or your site in general exhibits a strange behavior claiming “No disk space left” or “Inode count full” while there is plenty of disk space available. This is down to inode usage . Inodes are filesystem structures which describe (among other attributes) a file or a directory. They can be of 1kb (or smaller) and up to 4.7GB (or more...
You might have noticed the recent addition of a new feature in the left menu called “SSH Keys” and was looking for more info on it. What is Public Key Authentication The SSH protocol supports several authentication methods. One of the most important is public key authentication for interactive and automated connections. Reason behind this is very simple: security. Public key...
You got to a point when you’re ready to have a control panel for your VPS, to control and configure using the browser, to take over the world. One solution for this would be Webmin. A free , open source control panel with a nice web interface and a plethora of modules , available on several operating systems. To install it, there are a few simple commands. But first, get a VPS from MVPS.NET...
You might have heard or seen it on the web or when ordering a new project platform from MVPS.NET. It is a central part of graphical user interaction with an online machine and a tool for which many of todays achievements, would not be possible. RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol and it is one of the coolest things in the virtual world. It allows a user to login a remote machine while bringing...