What Is RDP | RDP Server | Remote Desktop Portocol | Easy Explanation

 RDP Servers? Before Going to RDP servers we will learn that what is RDP and what's use it. After that, we will learn what are the RDP servers and will discuss some RDP/ VPS service providers.


What is RDP?

RDP stands for Remote desktop protocol. Remote Desktop Protocol owns by Microsoft, you may also notice a software called Remote Desktop Connection on your Windows computer.

RDP allows user to remotely control or connect to an RDP Server enabled Computer through the internet or Local networks. Remote Desktop Protocol allows remote users to control the other windows pc which is situated in other location and its so cool to have an RDP server for your self I will talk about it later.

Remote Desktop Protocol is Only For Windows, by RDP you can only connect to a Windows RDP server, and also not all windows version supports RDP sever establish, only some of windows server version supports it. 

So Basically, RDP is for transmitting the remote server's monitor/screen to the Client User and the Client User's keyboard and mouse to the remote server, by this client user have full control of the RDP server.


What is an RDP Server?

For the shake of simplicity, The RDP Server is a windows machine that has installed the necessary components to share the control of that machine to an RDP remote user or an RDP client User. 

let's understand with a basic example, suppose you have a  Windows PC in which you installed necessary components (RDS etc.) to share its control with another user, in this case, your pc is an RDP server.


What is a client?

The client are you. Yes!  a client is who controls the remote servers using and RDP client software. You can connect to an RDP server from windows, macOS, IOs, android cause Microsoft officially provides RDP client apps for all of the above platforms. You can also connect to an RDP server using Linux or other platform but using third party solutions or applications.

Remote Desktop connection



Requirements to connect to an RDP Server

There are no special requirements to establish a connection between the RDP server and your Device, you just need an RDP server IP address with a port and an RDP client on your device. For android, you can find the Official RD client app of Microsoft in google play store and for windows, you can use preinstalled software the Remote Desktop Connection.


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How To Get an RDP Server For Yourself

Cause of the Extreme Popularity of RDP/VPS at present, there are lots of RDP/VPS providers on the internet. Some are costly and some are very cheap.

If you want to take a trial you can use Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure for testing and experience the RDP server.

AWS 1 year - aws.amazon.com/free

Azure 100$ Credit - azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/


What The Use OF RDP?

I think after reading the above lines you should know why to use RDP/VPS, but if you don't know then let me explain to you the advantage of it.

First read the above paragraphs about RDP, RDP servers, RDP Client carefully. I hope Now you understood what RDP and how it works, now you know that we can establish a connection to a Windows RDP server using RDP client software which is available for android, ios and macOS, so it's clear here that you can control a windows machine which has a good amount of ram, high processing power by just your smartphone, isn't it cool? it's super cool to control a high-end computer using your Low-end device.

You can use it if you haven't a Computer, you can use it for anonymous reasons, and for privacy reasons of for doing some anonymous activity which you don't want to do on your PC and your local network.

And One More Thing I use RDPs for High-Speed & Unlimited internet(up to 5gp/ps) and as a hosting.


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Conclusion

Thanks, me on telegram for this great explanation about RDP. Hope you understand all things written here, I tried to explain with very simplicity.  For advance details about RDP , RDP versions, and other things you can check article on Wikipedia

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