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…
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…
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…
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…
Webmin is an open source, web-based control panel used for system administration for Linux machines. It takes away the complexity of managing your servers and allows you to perform common…
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…
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…
Introduction Five years ago, VPNs were reserved for the power users and I.T. departments of large companies. Today, VPN services are growing in popularity by each passing day. The need…
In this tutorial we’ll install the latest Python 3 on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine. Python is one of the fastest growing programming languages at the time of writing. It’s easy…
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…
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,…
The great thing about Linux servers is that they’re lightweight and considerably cheaper than Windows servers. The downside is that they’re not typically used with a GUI so they’re not…
