VestaCP is a free and open-source web hosting control panel, with a set of features that includes integration with Softaculous, managing domains, databases, mail, DNS, cron jobs, backups, and more. It’s one of the free control panels that has stuck…
phpMyAdmin is a free and open-source MySQL and MariaDB management tool. It allows you to manage databases, execute SQL queries, manage user accounts, export and import data, and much more – all over a web interface. It is, and has…
In Unix-like system, which includes Linux, there are sets of rules for each file, which defines who can access that file and how they can access that file. These rules are called permissions or modes. That brings us to the…
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…
FFmpeg is a very popular, cross-platform, free and open-source multimedia framework, used for transcoding multimedia files. FFmpeg is actually a collection of different projects for manipulating multimedia files. It’s not only used by users to handle media files, but it’s…
Prerequisites Installing FreeRADIUS is beyond the scope of this tutorial. If you don’t have it installed yet, please see our how to install and configure FreeRADIUS tutorial, or order a FreeRADIUS VPS from here. Please note that the FreeRADIUS VPS…
What is FreeRADIUS? FreeRADIUS is an authentification, authorization and accounting protocol. It was built in the dial-up era to manage users and keep track of the bandwidth usage by each connection for billing purposes. In this article, we will teach…
Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA), developed by the Internet Security Research Group, that provides free and easily obtainable SSL/TLS certificates. Such certificates are required to enable HTTPS on web servers. Let’s Encrypt also provides a very convenient software…
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…
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…
