VPS noob with a question

siberia77

siberia77

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Dear WF HiveMind,

Lets ttalk about VPS. I am trying to find a way that I can basically keep working on my own business activities while sitting at my day job in front of an open internet connection :)

The best I have come up with is if I get a VPS. I *think* I can use something called "Remote Desktop" to access the actual windows desktop on it and as such could sit running photoshop etc etc and getting my own stuff done.

Only snag is I cant install anything at work.

Can anyone suggest any ideas of how I can access the desktop on a VPS without installing anything on my work machine?
 


VPS typically refer to linux server environment. That is not what you want. If you go this route you want a windows machine. I am going to assume that you are running windows at work. If so you probably already have the remote desktop client installed that will let you access any other remote windows machine. Check that first. If you have that then look to get a virtual PC set up someplace. You can then use that from home or from work. It will work just like your regular PC - you can move disk images to it and install whatever you are legally licensed to run on any of your home machines.

Edit: I have no association with them but you want something like this http://www.kickassvps.com/services/windows_vps/plans.php
 
There's really no need for a VPS at all. Windows already has a built in remote desktop function. Of course your work probably blocks the ports, so it might not work by default. However, if you set up port forwarding at home or simply change the remote desktop port to 443, your job will allow it (unless they are retards and block SSL) because they'll think it's a regular SSL web connection.

Now you probably don't have a remote desktop client available at work, so just download one of the portable usb versions and run it from there.

I used to do this every single day when I worked shit tech support jobs.
 
Food for thought thanks guys. Work have outsourced tech support so its possible they have some semi-decent lockdown setups but subigo sounds like he has the answer. I would be nearly 100% sure work does not have remote desktop on.

I would possibly die a happy man if i could sit at work and do all the sh*t I need to do for my own business :)
 
you would need a windows vps. if you work with a windows desktop or laptop you already have Remote Desktop. If they took it away from you. you can run it from a thumb. there is also a windows app called Terminals that you can run from a thumb that has a bunch of clients built into it.

If your office blocks "known" ports. You can set the RDP service on the server to listen on a different port and then in your client just append the ip address with a colonPORT. ie,. 32.5.97.12:14957

You will be able to do a LOT of work this way. The one thing you mention that won't work well is Photoshop type stuff. While you can set the # of colors and resolution that you connect with from the client, the higher you set these settings the more bandwidth you're going to take as well as the the redraws of the screens will take much longer. So don't plan on any image work.

Otherwise it's a great solution.

Regards...
 
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