Running a Node off a VPS

[Squrk]

Hello,

I have a VPS which I am not using and I am probably never going to use, So I will thinking of running it as a bitcoin node. Am I correct in saying all I need to do is run bitcoind with the argument "-server"?
I have opened port 8332 and while running "bitcoind -server" I do not see any network activity.

2 scenarios  exist that I can see.

1. I am doing it wrong. Which is very likely

2. The network activity is so low that it doesn't even show up on my graphs

Thanks for any help.

[Bitsino]

Is this a Linux of Windows VPS? If it's Linux, you can use "netstat -lan | grep -i tcp" to see all connections in or out. This should give you a good idea of what is connected currently.

The first time I ran bitcoind, it took a long time for the RPC server to get up and running. I am not sure why, but it might have to set up a number of things the first time it runs.

Make sure your bitcoin.conf files is set up. Again, in Linux this will be in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Mine looks like this:

rpcuser=bitsinorpc
rpcpassword=akjcv093k92nfo9sSDFck3n92MCodklmw23

And finally, I choose to run bitcoind as a daemon: "./bitcoind -daemon"

[hamdi]

install nmap and scan localhost. if you see the right ports open, your daemon is running.