Guides or step by step instructions on using Linux VPS. Tutorials filed under this category will try to cover the “how to” basics of using servers.
Google Chrome is the most popular web browser. It’s slick, fast, and extremely convenient nowadays. Unfortunately, unlike Chromium, which is open-source, Google Chrome is not in the default Ubuntu repository, so we’ll have to download and install Chrome ourselves. Prerequisites…
UFW, also called Uncomplicated Firewall or sometimes Ubuntu Firewall, is an easy to use interface for iptables, that’s great for filtering traffic and has good documentation. It’s main purpose is to simplify managing iptables. In this tutorial you’ll learn how…
Docker Compose is a tool that helps you define and run multi-container applications. Instead of you building, running and connecting containers from separate Dockerfiles, it allows you to use a YAML file (called the Compose file) to define all of…
Introduction What is Docker? Docker is an open source container based technology. What is a Container? To more easily explain what containers are, let’s compare them to Virtual Machines: A Virtual Machine includes the application, the necessary binaries and libraries…
In this tutorial we’ll create a sudo user on Ubuntu 18.04. The sudo command makes it possible for normal users to execute commands using administrator privileges, such as root. You’ll often find that it’s recommended that you act as a…
Overview LAMP Stack is a group of very popular open-source software, that when used together enable us to host dynamic websites and web apps. LAMP is actually an acronym that stands for:Linux – in this case, it is our Ubuntu…
Introduction In this tutorial we’ll be learning how to install Python 3.6 and Python 3.7 on a server running Centos 7. Python is a general purpose object oriented programming language that’s been growing in popularity at an incredible rate. Not…
Introduction If you want to set up a professional website without having to invest a good deal of money or time, then WordPress is one of the best solutions. Additionally, you can lower your budget by installing it yourself on…
LEMP Stack is a group of popular software that you can use together to serve dynamic web pages. LEMP stands for Linux, Nginx (Engine-X), MySQL and PHP. As you may have noticed, the title says we’re going to install MariaDB,…
Introduction Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is an open source high-performance web server that was written to address some of the performance issues associated with Apache. While some may consider it less user friendly than Apache, it is a great alternative to…
