2 Portable Apps To Keep You Linked To A Home Server

Written by Alan Sunday, 23 January 2011 08:00

When you are on the road and need to be able to contact a home server to retrieve files or administer a website or business then the first thing you need is a USB key and the second thing is a couple of portable apps to run on it.  While it may be nice to have a notebook or netbook PC and a WiFi connection for, a USB key can keep you going even without those things.

When I travel I carry a netbook, but if I just happen to be out then I don’t normally have that with me, but I do, however, have a USB drive on my keychain.  So if we’re at my wife’s sister’s house and a need arises I can pop that drive into their PC and access the dashboard of  my home server, or all of the files stored on it, or the admin page of my website and I won’t leave any user names, passwords, or other traces behind.

These are the two apps that I have loaded on my PNY Micro Swivel Attaché 4 GB USB Drive 2 Portable Apps To Keep You Linked To A Home Server that allow me this type of access.

Firefox Portable

firefox portable 2 Portable Apps To Keep You Linked To A Home Server

Firefox Portable can be run straight from a USB drive and leaves no traces when the drive is removed.  Running this I can type my DynDNS address into the address bar and, via HTTP, access the dashboard of my home server.  From there I can check out stats, make sure everything is running fine, and even install an upgrade or reboot the server.  If I put FTP in front of the address I can access the files stored on the server.

Filezilla Portable

filezilla portable screenshot 2 Portable Apps To Keep You Linked To A Home Server

Filezilla Portable is a free FTP program that runs great on a USB drive.  It’s lightweight and leaves no trace when the drive is removed.  If you want todo some serious moving around or uploading of files then you need a real FTP program and not just FTP access via a web browser.  Plus it supports SSL and SFTP.

Those are my two go-to files when I am away from home.  If you have others the please chime in in the comments below.  Both are free, compact, and easy to install on a USB drive,

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2 Portable Apps To Keep You Linked To A Home Server

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