I've got a VPS I'm sharing with a friend. I'd like to have a some kind of notifier to let him know when I am using it without us communicating between each other, or him having to connect to see if it's in use or not. We connect to the VPS using Remote Desktop Connection.
How can I go about doing this?
I was wondering if something like having 2 HTML files uploaded to another server, 1 saying "in use" the other saying "free". When my computer is using RDC (I assume it could be identified by port?) the "in use" HTML file would be renamed to index.html, and when I'm not using the VPS/port, the "free" file is renamed to index.html.
This is all estimation, as I've yet to get into web development languages, and am currently limited to intermediate levels of HTML and CSS. If anyone has a more efficient/easier way of filling this purpose than feel free to share! It would also be ideal if there was a method that could identify if either user was using the VPS.
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I've got a VPS I'm sharing with a friend. I'd like to have a some kind of notifier to let him know when I am using it without us communicating between each other, or him having to connect to see if it's in use or not. We connect to the VPS using Remote Desktop Connection.
How can I go about doing this?
I was wondering if something like having 2 HTML files uploaded to another server, 1 saying "in use" the other saying "free". When my computer is using RDC (I assume it could be identified by port?) the "in use" HTML file would be renamed to index.html, and when I'm not using the VPS/port, the "free" file is renamed to index.html.
This is all estimation, as I've yet to get into web development languages, and am currently limited to intermediate levels of HTML and CSS. If anyone has a more efficient/easier way of filling this purpose than feel free to share! It would also be ideal if there was a method that could identify if either user was using the VPS.
Any ideas?
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