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FileZilla – Your free home FTP Solution.

by amp on Sep.09, 2009, under Administration, Products, Reviews & Previews, Tutorials, Windows

FileZilla ICONHaving an FTP and file server at your home is a very useful thing to have. By having a central point in your home where everything is stored and have the ability to share everything you need across your home network.

Now, if you are going to grab files from your home while you are away there are a few things you should really keep in mind before doing this.

  • Having it exposed to the outside world will make you available to brute force attacks (mostly from Russia that I’ve noticed).
  • Make sure you have your ports forwarded to the server.  You can set this up in your routers administration panel > Port Forwarding.
  • Do you have high bandwidth on your connection?  I would recommend having at least 2Mb up (~240 kbps upload speed).

Today since we are working with windows we will be talking about FileZilla FTP Server.  Why not IIS on Server 2k3?  Keep Reading…
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Set up a Linux Router

by amp on Jun.03, 2009, under Administration, Linux, Tutorials

The Linux Router. 
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Introduction
Why would you want to make your own router?

Well, mainly because it’s a fun project, and it can handle alot more simultaneous connections then a normal Linksys or Dlink could. You also get complete control over your network and that’s always a plus.

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