{"id":3186,"date":"2020-11-04T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2020-11-04T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:17:11","slug":"dont-use-vpn-for-remote-connection-to-heavybid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/04\/dont-use-vpn-for-remote-connection-to-heavybid\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Use VPN for Remote Connection to HeavyBid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know some HCSS customers are using a VPN connection to connect to HeavyBid when out of the office. Recently I found out this is not a good option as first you can get performance issues but it can also produce data corruption. Remote Desktop is a much better solution and you can also do a Remote Desktop through a VPN. Just don&#8217;t do a VPN by itself. See the Help Article below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">HCSS Policy on VPN Connections<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">While HCSS software will work while being accessed through a VPN, it is strongly discouraged due to performance degradation and the high probability of data corruption<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">It is suggested that HCSS software be accessed remotely over a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Citrix setup.<\/span><br><br><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0An RDP connection through a VPN is acceptable. This type of setup\u00a0may still have slower performance, but is not at risk for data corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know some HCSS customers are using a VPN connection to connect to HeavyBid when out of the office. Recently I found out this is not a good option as first you can get performance issues but it can also produce data corruption. Remote Desktop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}