Target audience This article is good for general audiences and provides an introduction to data compression techniques and uses. . Introduction File compression is a technique for “squeezing”…
Alexander Wise
Origin Story of the Rivalry Between Facebook and PHP Back in 2010 Facebook developers announced that they had been working on a solution to the rising costs of…
Alexander Wise
Verified and Tested 4/28/16 Introduction Fail2ban is a great, wonderful service that is primarily used to stop brute forcers from accessing your system. It’s simple to install and…
Alexander Wise
Introduction In another article on using ftplib in Python, we talked about using Python’s ftplib library to connect to an FTP server and download both binary and text…
Alexander Wise
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…
Alexander Wise
Introduction A good knowledge of how to use the pip command to manage Python packages can distinguish between a jumbled mess of spaghetti code and a nicely organized…
Alexander Wise
Introduction This how-to will go through the process of installing at LEMP stack on Ubuntu 15.10. LEMP is very similar to LAMP, with one significant difference, you are…
Alexander Wise
Target Audience This article is geared toward readers with at least a working knowledge of PHP or a thorough knowledge of programming. . Introduction PHP is one of…
Alexander Wise
Introduction PHP is a powerful, server-side scripting language designed for web development. It’s the backbone of many popular platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and a wide range…
Alexander Wise
Verified and Tested 10/8/15 Introduction In this How-To, we will install a LAMP Stack on an Ubuntu 14.04 Cloud Server with PHP7. PHP7 should be released sometime in November…
Alexander Wise
Introduction Behind every great web application is a database of some kind. Many of the widely used database systems (e.g., MySQL, Percona, PostgressSQL, MariaDB, MSSQL) use SQL (Structured Query…
Alexander Wise
Verified and Tested 09/18/15 Introduction HMailserver is a free software that will allow you handle e-mail delivery. MTA, mail transfer agent, is just another name for this process.…
Alexander Wise
Verified and Tested 09/3/15 Introduction In this how-to we will walk you through the basic installation of an RTMP server using Ubuntu 14.04. RTMP stands for Real Time…
Alexander Wise
Introduction VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) is a commonly used protocol that offers high availability for a network (or subnetwork). Keepalived is a Linux package that uses VRRP…
Alexander Wise
Introduction There are two standard types of installations, JRE (Java Runtime Environment) and JDK (Java Development Kit). As the base model, JRE enables the ability to create Java…
Alexander Wise
Java Illustration by Walker Cahall Verified and Tested 06/02/21 Introduction If you had the option to choose between a base model car or a fully loaded model, which…
Alexander Wise
Verified and Tested 03/24/2015 Introduction In this How-To, we will walk you through Adding a Custom Firewall Rule in Windows Server 2012. We will be adding a custom…
Jose Velazquez
Verified and Tested 03/12/2015 Introduction In this how-to we will walk you through Installing MySQL in Windows Server 2012 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). MySQL…
Jose Velazquez
Introduction This How-To will walk you through Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. NIC Teaming is the name Microsoft gives for the…
Jose Velazquez
Verified and Tested 03/31/2015 Introduction We often find ourselves running out of hard drive space, and now in Hyper-V 2012, we can expand our virtual hard drives. We…
Jose Velazquez
Atlantic.Net’s Cloud Portal includes a DNS management module that enables you to manage DNS records for your domains. DNS records tell people where your domain is hosted so…
Alexander Wise
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