by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Feb 17, 2019 | Latest, MySQL, Server Administration, Vultr
At times, server owners need to connect to the databases from outside their office network. In this case, they must connect to the database using third party software that runs remotely. In other words, this is called remote MySQL connection. It’s a simple...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Feb 16, 2019 | Latest, MySQL, Server Administration, Vultr
I forgot my MySQL password. Can you reset the MySQL password of my Vultr instance? That was a recent support ticket received from one of our server owners as part of our Managed Cloud Services. It’s common that users forget the MySQL root password....
by Sijin George | Feb 16, 2019 | Latest, Server Administration, VPN
OpenVPN greatly improves your online privacy. Often, OpenVPN clients do not work correctly and show up connection errors too. One such error is “OpenVPN error 10054”. Unfortunately, it happens when the OpenVPN server connection gets a reset. At Bobcares,...
by Sijin George | Feb 15, 2019 | Latest, Server Administration, VPN
Virtual private network is great way to maintain privacy of user data. Although there are many ways to setup VPN, PPTP aka Point to Point Tunneling Protocol is still a popular choice. And, to enable it, we need to install PPTP server. At Bobcares, we often get...
by Sijin George | Feb 14, 2019 | Latest, Server Administration, VPN
OpenVPN helps in securing network data transfer. And, it depends largely on your network properties. Network changes like switching internet providers often involves changing OpenVPN server IP address too. Unfortunately, wrong steps during IP change can even break the...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Feb 14, 2019 | Latest, Server Administration, Vultr
I have created a key pair using PuTTy, but when I try connecting to my Vultr instance, I get the error ” server refused our key”. What’s wrong here? That was a recent support received from one of the customers as part of the Managed Cloud Services...
