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The Novel Coronavirus – COVID-19 – is making headlines around the world.  Businesses are cautiously being advised to review business continuity plans (BCP) in the event the global virus outbreak is upgraded to a pandemic, and people are advised to self-isolate to reduce the spreading of the virus. Some estimates suggest that up to one in five people “could be affected by this” in the event of a pandemic.

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OpenLiteSpeed is an open-source version of the LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. It is a lightweight, high-performance, secure, easy-to-use, and low-resource-usage web server that can be used to manage hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections.

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pgAdmin is a free, open-source, and web-based tool for managing a PostgreSQL database server. It is written in Python and Jquery and runs on most popular operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. pgAdmin comes with a rich set of features, a few of which are listed below:

• Multi-platform compatible with multiple deployment models
• Monitoring dashboard
• Supports desktop mode and server mode
• User-friendly, with powerful graphical interfaces
• Powerful query tool and syntax highlighting editor

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure pgAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04.

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Jenkins is a free and open-source continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) application written in the Java programming language. It is specially designed to monitor the execution of repetitive jobs and tests and while reporting any changes in the code to you in real-time. It is a cross-platform application that can be run on Windows, Linux, and any other operating system. Jenkins is very popular because of its simple interface, UI customization, support for different version control systems and great extensibility.

Jenkins comes with a rich set of features, including support for more than 1000 plugins, bug detection, static code analysis, unit test execution, building projects and deploying applications.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Jenkins on Ubuntu 18.04.

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Joomla is a free, open-source content management system (CMS). It is one of the most widely used content management systems. Joomla is written in PHP and can be used to build an eCommerce store, blog, or personal website with little coding knowledge. It comes with a simple and easy-to-use web interface that helps you create a dynamic and powerful website within a minute. Joomla’s 10,000+ add-ons help you to customize the appearance and functionality of your website. It supports several operating systems including Linux, Windows, Mac OS, FreeBSD, and Solaris, and easily integrates with Gmail and OpenID.

In this guide, we will show you how to install Joomla CMS on CentOS 8 server.

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Apache Subversion is an open-source version control system that stores previous versions of and changes to your files and directories. This will allow you to recover your older versions of files when you need it. You can also track the repository and identify who made specific changes.

Subversion is very similar to Git with the key difference that Git is a distributed version control system while SVN is a centralized version control system. Subversion has a single central repository that makes it easier for you to maintain a top-down approach to control.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Apache Subversion on Ubuntu 18.04.

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Anaconda is a free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages. It is used for scientific computing, machine learning, and data science that involves heavy calculations and predictive analysis. Anaconda Python offers over 1400 data packages, both free and paid.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install the Anaconda Python Distribution on Ubuntu 18.04.

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After installing or setting up a new Ubuntu 18.04 server, you will need to perform some basic steps to increase the server’s security, performance and reliability.

In this tutorial, we will show you some basic configuration steps you should perform after installing a new Ubuntu 18.04 server.

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MariaDB is free, open-source, and one of the most popular database servers in the world. It is a community-developed fork of the very popular MySQL database management system. MariaDB provides support for PHP and uses a standard and popular querying language. MariaDB comes with a wide range of storage engines and several optimizations that can be used to improve the database performance.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to manage databases in MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04.

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Lighttpd is a free, open-source, and high-performance web server designed for speed-critical environments. It is lightweight, secure, fast, and consumes very few resources compared to other web servers.  Lighttpd also supports FastCGI, CGI, Output-Compression, Auth and URL-Rewriting, which makes it the perfect web server. Lighttpd can handle up to 10000 connections in parallel on a single server.

If you are looking for a fast, efficient, and secure web server, then Lighttpd is the best choice for you.

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