A Guide To Setting Up A Virtual Server For Ultimate Demon.

While this quick tutorial is specifically aimed at owners and users of Ultimate Demon, the same process would obviously also be true for setting up a virtual server for any reason. When you sign up with a server provider that they should give you an IP address, user name and password. You’ll need to keep these safe, probably write them down or copy and paste them into a notepad file as you’ll need them to log on.If you are running Windows on your desktop PC, go to the start menu and in the “Search programs and files” text box at the bottom type in “remote desktop connection”.This should, unsurprisingly bring up the program Remote Desktop Connection which is the application used to communicate between your PC and server.Click to start your remote desktop connection. You should see the sign up screen where you need to input your server details. Type the IP address of your server and your username and password. If you click on the little down arrow to the left you will be taken to the options area. Here it is advisable to click on the “Display” tab and alter this to suit your requirements. Ideally, if you have a second monitor you can set your VPS to run full-screen on that. The “Local Resources” tab is also very useful and allows you to browse to a drive or folder on your local system. Once you have done that, press connect and your server window will open. In “Windows Server 2008 R2” or above you will have your IP bar at the top of the screen. This can be pinned using the icon to the left or toggle from full-screen to windowed mode with the icons to the right. As a little aside here, it’s worth mentioning that you cannot drag and drop from your local PC to your server to copy files across. However, most of the time you can right click on a file and select copy, then move to your server right again and select paste and this will work. It’s not the most reliable of systems however and sometimes it fails due to a synchronisation error that unfortunately requires you to log out of your server and back in again. Don’t worry, Edwinsoft's Ultimate Demon or any other software you have running will not stop when you close the connection. For this reason I recommend setting up a shared drive or sub-folder with a drive has mentioned a couple of paragraphs above. At this stage your VPS is almost ready, and requires just a couple more actions before you can start installing your SEO software such as Ultimate Demon.At the bottom left of the screen next to the start menu there should be an icon which is hovered over reveals itself to be the “Server Manager”. Click on this and a window will open that contains a setting you need to alter. There is only one task to perform here. Normally over on the right hand side there is a link entitled “Configue IE ESC”. By default all IP’s not directly connected to your PC’s local network are blocked by the server manager. Turn both the administrators and users settings off and this will allow your VPS to communicate with any website, see the image below. Next, through the “Control Panel” (accessed through the start menu) Click on appearance, then “Change Screensaver” and ensure that the screen-saver is off and that the box titled “On resume display logon screen” is unchecked.This will prevent you continually needing to logon and also your processes being interrupted by the screensaver which with some applications will cause them to fall over or halt. Ultimate Demon seems to work ok with the screensaver on, but many other applications fail, or just stop and wait for you to re-connect. Next you want to make sure you ask your so go to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/security-essentials (Change the “GB” for your own country code if you are not automatically re-directed) And download Microsoft Security Essentials. You can install this like installing any other piece of software on your normal Windows home PC. You should also then let it check for updates. This is a free antivirus program that is relatively unobtrusive and works very well with virtual servers. The second and final part of your security procedures should be to type in “Windows firewall” into the start menu box and you should see the following screen. Perhaps make a short-cut to this, because as you add applications it is not always certain whether they will have full two-way Internet access by default and you may need to go into the firewall later and allow them full communication rights. The above might seem like quite a lot, but other than waiting for Security essentials to download it is probably no more than 10 or 15 minutes work. You’re now ready to download or copy across Ultimate Demon and install it. Creating thousands of links once you have populated Ultimate Demon with a lot of sites will take time. If you have a shared home Internet connection or simply do not want your PC on for many hours creating these links are the VPS is an excellent solution.Finally, and on an even more practical note, it’s now possible to have very stable and useful servers for under $30 a month running 24/7 making links for your sites on your behalf. Depending on where you live this may be cheaper than the cost of electricity to keep a home PC on the same amount of time. So you could actually be saving money by running your application is on a VPS. Ultimate Demon works flawlessly on Windows Server 2008 and with configuration changes required on Windows Server 2003.