Posts Tagged ‘ Port ’

Moving a IIS WordPress Site to Amazon EC2 (New Prices!)

2017/10/16
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Modified: 2017/11/12
RDP-Options

What is Wrong with Home Server? After a RAID drive hiccup on my local Windows 2008 Server, I was more inclined to consider an external hosting options.  And one of my friends already uses Amazon hosting for at least 4 years now.  So I decided to invest some time to explore this option.   What is Covered Here? – Terminology – Pricing – How to  extract your original ADMIN password – How to open a Custom Port on My Amazon Server – How to transfer files using RDP – How to launch an instance with Instance Store – What if I am Using SQL Express and need a regular D/B Backup…

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Amazon Linux Apache 2.4 reverse proxy with SSL to serve Node.js application

2017/10/09
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Modified: 2017/10/09
SSL Test Report

Recently, I spent about 36 hours researching, and thinking, and trying, and learning a lot about Apache server before I could crack this one.  After I found a solution, a had a long <VirtualHost> entry.  In this article I present only entries that are required for reverse proxy to work and your Node.js app still to be aware of client IP address. Problem: You want Apache 2.4 to be your front end for your Node.js application.  All the transaction should occur over HTTPS. Your visitors do not have to specify a post number in URL. I do not cover here: – how to install and configure Node.js; – how to get a…

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Remotely Power Up or Wake Your Wired PCs Over the Internet

2017/07/26
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Modified: 2017/06/25
Power-Up

Idea – Reduce Noise, Save on Electricity My electric company installed an electricity consumption gadget, and ability to monitor usage online. A few month into the experiment I realized, that I can easily reduce electric usage, if I turned off my server. It is been over a year since I migrated all my sites to Amazon cloud, so now my server only needs to be on, when I need it on. All the nights and 90% of all work hours it can be off.  But how to do that? I recall seeing something in BIOSes of Intel motherboards called Wake-On-LAN.  First time I saw something like this was in May of…

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Block PC Outbound Connections on Router Level (All but RDP)

2017/06/27
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Modified: 2017/06/25
Router-Open-Ports-for-RDP-3389

This article applies to a scenario, when you already can establish RDP to a machine on your internal network from a remote network.  Now you’ve decided to tighten security screws and close all external access to and from that machine except for RDP on the router level. Inbound connections to a server you can block easily using firewall on the machine itself.  This article deals with a situation, when you need to block access for any process or application running on your server to the external resources.  Other machines on your network still would be able to make external connections through the router. Note: It is good a practice to change…

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