Cloud Computing
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Understanding & Using Symbolic & Hard Links (Ubuntu)
Have you ever wondered how you can create shortcuts that link to other files in Linux? Well, let me introduce you to symbolic and hard links. The two types of links in Linux are symbolic links and ha
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Installing and Using NCDU (NCurses Disk Usage)
ncdu is a curses-based version of the well-known 'du' command and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your disk space. What I love about this utility is that it can traverse the re
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Finding Out File Using Up Disk Space With [du] in GNU/Linux
It is a bit annoying when your disk space gets full, and you have no idea what is eating up the disk space, well, let me introduce you to ducommand, with this command you can get the disk usage of t
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Installing Nginx Server as Reverse-Proxy for Apache [Multiple Websites]
Nginx or engine X is a free and open-source web server, reverse proxying, load balancer, caching, and more. Apache isn’t the only web server for hosting web content (although, it is the most used),
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Installing and Using dig in Ubuntu
dig is an awesome utility for querying DNS name servers. It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server(s) that were queried. In this guide, you'll learn how
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Securing Nginx Server Using (Let's Encrypt) [Ubuntu]
In this guide, you'll learn how to use secure your Nginx server for free with Let's Encrypt, this way, you can ensure your websites are encrypted and available over HTTPS. Let's Encrypt provide free
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Installing and Configuring Nginx
Nginx or engine X is a free and open-source web server, reverse proxying, load balancer, caching, and more. Apache isn't the only web server for hosting web content (although, it is the most used), N
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Securing Apache Server Using a (Self Signed Certificate) [Ubuntu]
In this guide, you'll learn how to use SSL to secure Apache, this way, you can ensure your websites are encrypted and available over HTTPS. By default, Apache configuration listens for traffic on por
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Securing Apache Server Using (Let's Encrypt) [Ubuntu]
In this guide, you'll learn how to use secure your Apache server for free with Let's Encrypt, this way, you can ensure your websites are encrypted and available over HTTPS. Let's Encrypt provide free
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Installing Additional Apache Modules
If you want to add additional modules for Apache extension. You can install additional modules, for example, you can install module to add support for PHP, and the likes. Run the following command to
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Changing the MariaDb Configuration Files
You can tune MariaDB to your liken using the MariaDB’s option files. The default MariaDB option file is called my.cnf on Unix-like operating systems (i.e Ubuntu, Debian, and the likes), if you are
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Installing MariaDB (Ubuntu)
MariaDB is an open-source relational database, and a fork of MySQL by the original developers of MySQL. The database structure and indexes of MariaDB are the same as MySQL. So, you can easily switch
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Installing, Understanding and Configuring Apache (Ubuntu)
Apache is an open-source cross-platform web server software by Apache Software Foundation. To install apache, simply install the apache2 package as follows: sudo apt install apache2 Confirm apache2
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Installing Security Updates in Ubuntu
To begin installing security updates, the first thing is to update your repository index, which would instruct the server to check all lists of packages that are new or out-dated. Update your repo wi
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Securing Nginx Server Using a (Self Signed Certificate) [Ubuntu]
In this guide, you'll learn how to use SSL to secure your Nginx, this way, you can ensure your websites are encrypted and available over HTTPS. By default, Nginx configuration listens for traffic on
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Understanding Load Average In GNU/Linux
Load average is the average number of processes that is calculated over a period of time, they can either be in a runnable or uninterrupted‐able state. When a process is in a runnable state, it is
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How to Rename Files and Directories in GNU/Linux
Renaming file and directory is quite straight forward in GNU/Linux, in this guide I'll show you how to do just that... The mv command is among the useful utility for renaming, and moving files from o
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Beginners Guide To Using (htop) In Ubuntu
In your server, there are lots of ways you could view a system resource usage, as well as the ability to kill a misbehaving or resource hog processes, for example, you can use the kill command to gra
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Dealing With Misbehaving Processes in Ubuntu
If you are used to the Windows system, you would have likely come across a misbehaving application, which can most likely be killed using the Task Manager. This is similar in GNU/Linux, the only diff
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Installing and Using (Zip & Unzip) In Ubuntu
Zip is a compression and file packaging utility, this is useful for packaging a set of files for distribution; for archiving files; and for saving disk space by temporarily compressing unused files
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