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Online Server Space
Do any of you all know of any place where you can get some online server space so that you can install things such as win 2008, exchange, linux and etc to practice on? Reason I ask for "online" server space is so that it can be accessed from anywhere not just at home like your home labs.....or better yet, is there a way to make your home labs accessiable over the internet without using VPN? Thx in advance!
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dynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
That'll probably run you $10/mo for a *nix system and $30-50/mo for a Windows system. That's expensive. You could just tunnel anything over SSH to all your home systems. Just have SSH listening on a different port for each system. -
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darkerosxx Banned Posts: 1,343
or better yet, is there a way to make your home labs accessiable over the internet without using VPN? Thx in advance!
Of course, open your router firewall to the internet or "better yet" to a specific subnet where you'll be accessing it from so every Tom, Dick, and Harry can't try to log in as well.
What kind of setup do you have? Don't mind helping you... -
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Hyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
That'll probably run you $10/mo for a *nix system and $30-50/mo for a Windows system. That's expensive. You could just tunnel anything over SSH to all your home systems. Just have SSH listening on a different port for each system.
Logmein is free for windows. I use it almost every day.
They have paid versions, but i've not really seen any reason to use them. They also have an android app that is absolutely bitchin, but does cost 30$ (one time) -
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joey74055 Member Posts: 216
darkerosxx wrote: »Of course, open your router firewall to the internet or "better yet" to a specific subnet where you'll be accessing it from so every Tom, Dick, and Harry can't try to log in as well.
What kind of setup do you have? Don't mind helping you...
Thanks, right now I just have my cable internet going into a cable modem, then to a Linksys wireless router. My servers and PC are connected to the Linksys. I've got some Cisco routers and switches but I have just recently moved and I haven't had the chance to set them back up. -
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dynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
Logmein is free for windows. I use it almost every day.
They have paid versions, but i've not really seen any reason to use them. They also have an android app that is absolutely bitchin, but does cost 30$ (one time)
Does it also host Windows and Linux servers at another facility that he can have administrative control over? If not, how is that relevant to what I posted? That was clearly the part of his question that I was addressing with those numbers. -
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darkerosxx Banned Posts: 1,343
Thanks, right now I just have my cable internet going into a cable modem, then to a Linksys wireless router. My servers and PC are connected to the Linksys. I've got some Cisco routers and switches but I have just recently moved and I haven't had the chance to set them back up.
In linksys, it's probably still called port forwarding, so look for a tab/section on that.
Example: if you had a windows server @ 192.168.1.55 that u wanted to Remote Desktop into, u would put in port 3389 to forward to 192.168.1.55. Then, when u initiate RDP from outside your home to the public IP you have at home, the linksys would connect you to RDP on 192.168.1.55. -
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joey74055 Member Posts: 216
darkerosxx wrote: »In linksys, it's probably still called port forwarding, so look for a tab/section on that.
Example: if you had a windows server @ 192.168.1.55 that u wanted to Remote Desktop into, u would put in port 3389 to forward to 192.168.1.55. Then, when u initiate RDP from outside your home to the public IP you have at home, the linksys would connect you to RDP on 192.168.1.55.
Ok, cool. Thanks for this info! Do you put in any port or does it need to be port 3389. Is port 3389 the default port for Remote Deskop? -
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darkerosxx Banned Posts: 1,343
Yeah, default port for RDP is 3389. You have to put in the specific port to do port forwarding, so if you want to forward SSH you would do port 22, for example. -
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joey74055 Member Posts: 216
darkerosxx wrote: »Yeah, default port for RDP is 3389. You have to put in the specific port to do port forwarding, so if you want to forward SSH you would do port 22, for example.
Ok, great! Thanks for the help -
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NightShade03 Member Posts: 1,383 ■■■■■■■□□□
Make sure you have a good (or strong) password too on your servers. -
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Hyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
Does it also host Windows and Linux servers at another facility that he can have administrative control over? If not, how is that relevant to what I posted? That was clearly the part of his question that I was addressing with those numbers.
I read his original post as him wanting an online server at a third-party location or the abiility to access his home lab from the internet. -
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dynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
I read his original post as him wanting an online server at a third-party location or the abiility to access his home lab from the internet.
Which is exactly why I said he could alternatively tunnel over SSH since the pricing would probably be steep for what he wanted. I don't understand why quoted me and reiterated LogMeIn was free. I was responding to his question, not your recommendation for LogMeIn. -
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earweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
darkerosxx wrote: »In linksys, it's probably still called port forwarding, so look for a tab/section on that.
Example: if you had a windows server @ 192.168.1.55 that u wanted to Remote Desktop into, u would put in port 3389 to forward to 192.168.1.55. Then, when u initiate RDP from outside your home to the public IP you have at home, the linksys would connect you to RDP on 192.168.1.55.No longer work in IT. Play around with stuff sometimes still and fix stuff for friends and relatives. -
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darkerosxx Banned Posts: 1,343
NightShade03 wrote: »Make sure you have a good (or strong) password too on your servers.
Agreed. I always set up a rule to only allow the subnets I'll connect from, so OP if you can do that on your linksys, u should. -
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dynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
I travel, so that doesn't work for me, but ISSH key-based authentication.