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Alexander Wise is Content Editor for Atlantic.Net. He has over 15 years of experience in editing, copywriting, and managing content.
Introduction If you’re interested in learning about networking, or if you have files that you would like to share with the world at large, then at some point…
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Introduction A LEMP stack is a group of open-source software that works together to serve dynamic websites and applications. The name LEMP stands for: Linux – the operating…
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Do you want to join the era of open platform-as-a-service? Adopted by Mozilla among others, Deis is one option that combines the strengths of Docker and Chef. Groundwork…
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Verified and Tested 1/12/16 Introduction This how-to will help you with your LAMP installation in Arch Linux so that you can successfully run a high available solid platform…
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Verified and Tested 1/11/16 Introduction In this tutorial, we will be covering how to perform some basic IPTables changes that will greatly help secure your server. This is…
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Are you interested in finding a new configuration management system? Here are some thoughts from one system administrator’s two years of experience with Ansible. The Search for Easy…
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Introduction Cacti is a web-based tool for monitoring and graphing, designed as an easy-to-use front-end for the data logging software RRDTool. Cacti allows you to graph data–such as…
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Verified and Tested 1/7/16 Introduction What we’ll be doing in this tutorial is making it so that you can no longer SSH using your root user. In this…
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Verified and Tested 06/13/21 Introduction Ever wanted to run your own private chat service, either for business or personal use? Openfire is a fantastic open-source XMPP instant messaging…
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SaltStack, or simply Salt, is a configuration management system used by many people to make managing servers and configuring software much simpler.
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Introduction If you’re running a server of any kind or dealing with HIPAA server storage, at some point you’ll probably find it necessary to use FTP. FTP stands for File…
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Introduction Debian 12 (Bookworm) is a stable and powerful Linux distribution that is widely used for both servers and desktops. When installing Debian with the minimal or server…
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Verified and Tested 12/31/15 Introduction We will be installing October CMS on CentOS 7.2 in this how-to guide. October CMS is a content management system that uses the Laravel web…
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Verified and Tested 08/28/15 Introduction Nothing is more frustrating than wanting to do something and not knowing how to do it. In this How-to, we will be going over…
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Verified and Tested 08/31/15 Introduction In this How-to, we will be going over the SFTP commands to make our lives easier and to work more effective in our shell sessions.…
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Target Audience This article is intended for those looking for a primer on basic networking terms and concepts. Introduction Switches, routers, and firewalls are electronic devices used to…
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Verified and Tested 12/23/15 Introduction MTR (originally, Matt’s TraceRoute, now just My TraceRoute) is a handy, lightweight tool in a UNIX/Linux administrator’s arsenal that can help to identify…
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Verified and Tested 12/23/15 Introduction This walkthrough will take you through a base installation of CodoForum on an Ubuntu server that has Nginx as the web application and MySQL…
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Verified and Tested 12/22/15 Introduction In this How-To, we will walk you through the installation and configuration of WordPress on CentOS 7.1 with Apache. It began a blogging…
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Introduction The Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack) is a powerful set of tools for searching, analyzing, and visualizing data in real time. It consists of…
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Target Audience Developers who are new to website programming or who might like a review of stateless and stateful models of site design. Introduction The stateful and stateless…
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