DreamSys Server Monitor, once a commercial remote server monitoring software, is now available as a free download from the developer’s homepage. The user still needs to enter registration information after installation. They are however available on the homepage without the need for registration or any other kind of data grabbing. The Server Monitor application can [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

SSH is a network protocol that allows to be transferred in a secure channel. Most users probably associate SSH with Linux and Unix computer systems. Webmasters might know and use SSH to connect to and manage their Linux servers. FreeSSHd is a free SSH Server for the Windows operating system. Users can setup the SSH [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The network discovery software Fing has been born out of the ashes of the much acclaimed Look@Lan network monitoring and discovery software. The project is still in an early stage and comes with a command line version for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh operating system. This might turn away users who do not [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

Professional webmasters and system administrators have to make sure that their websites, servers and networks are running all the time. One way to ensure that is by running server monitoring software like IT Service View. Similar programs and services that we have covered in the past include the website monitoring software Sitemonitor, the website monitor [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

System administrators do not have physical access to dedicated servers. These servers are usually hosted by a web hosting company in a secured data center. Most dedicated servers are rented for a certain period of time and then passed on to the next customer. While some dedicated server hosters securely wipe and format the hard [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

I’m currently evaluating the possibility to switch providers. The dedicated server that ghacks is currently running on is totally self managed which can be a real burden if it happens to go down at 4 in the morning. There are basically two types of dedicated servers for customers with lots of subtypes in between. Managed [...]

Categories: Networks, Server, The Web

Running a home web server can be advantageous or even the only solution depending on its purpose. All those dedicated web server providers do not help much for instance if all you want to do is to setup a web server for a home network. Home Web Server is a software to run a web [...]

Categories: Software, The Web, Windows

Back in the days when I worked part time for a big financial company and ran Ghacks the rest of the time I sometimes had to access Ghacks while I was at work. The worst case scenario was that the web servers were down but it could also have been because of time critical security [...]

Categories: Online Services

If you ever needed to select a different SMTP server while sending mails in Thunderbird you can now by installing the Send Via add-on for Thunderbird. The add-on can come in handy if the main SMTP server is not accessible at the moment or having accessibility or connection problems. The Thunderbird add-on is available for [...]

Categories: Email