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Bareos, also called “Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced,” is an open-source software used for backing up and protecting data. It is cross-platform and supports all major operating systems including Linux, Windows, MacOS and Unix. Bareos comes with a simple and user-friendly web interface that helps you to perform backup operations through a web browser.

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Consul is a service mesh solution offering a full-featured control plane, including segmentation functionality, configuration, and service discovery. These features may be used individually as required, or they may be used together for creating a full-service mesh. Consul operates over a data plane and supports both a proxy and a native integration model. Consul ships with a simple built-in proxy that ensures everything works out-of-the-box. Consul also supports 3rd party proxy integrations, such as Envoy.

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The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) is a Canadian law that regulates how Canada’s private sector uses and discloses personal information as part of commercial activity. PIPEDA was created in April 2000, but the law did not become fully enacted until the 1st of January 2004.

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If you are a webmaster, you may often be concerned with the performance of your web applications. You might ask questions like, “how do I perform load testing of my application?” or “will my application be able to handle a lot of users?” In these cases, Apache Bench can be a great help. Apache Bench is a free and open-source tool to measure the performance of a web server with a simple, easy-to-use command-line interface; it can help you understand how your current Apache installation performs.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and use Apache Bench on Linux.

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Apache is free, open-source, and the most widely used web server, largely because it is capable of working in different environments. Apache has the ability to manage different processes to serve an HTTP protocol request including processing the request, opening a socket, and handling new events.

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Backing up your website regularly is a very important task for any webmaster. You should always have a recent backup of your website to prevent data loss in case something goes wrong, but backing up and restoring the WordPress website manually can be difficult for a beginner user.

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ClamAV is free and open-source antivirus software that can be used to find trojans and malicious software and other viruses in your system. It is simple, easy to use, and capable to scan over one million viruses and trojans. ClamAV supports various archive formats including Tar, Gzip, Zip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS, and also supports all mail file formats. It comes with several in-built tools, including a multi-threaded daemon and command-line interface to update the database automatically.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and use ClamAV on Ubuntu 20.04.

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Suricata is a free, open-source, robust network threat detection engine developed by the Open Security Foundation. It is capable of real-time intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and network security monitoring. Suricata comes with a powerful rule set that inspects the network traffic and detects complex threats. It supports all major operating systems including Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and macOS, and also supports IPv4, IPv6, SCTP, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, and GRE.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Suricata IDS on Ubuntu 20.04.

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DRBD, also known as “Distributed Replicated Block Device,” is a distributed storage solution for Linux. It is used to mirror the data on block devices such as hard disks, partitions, and logical volumes from one server to another over a network connection. If one server crashed, then the data on the other could be used. DRBD also ensures high availability (HA) for Linux applications by networked mirroring.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install DRBD and use it to replicate the partition between two servers.

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ArangoDB is a free, open-source NoSQL database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values.  It is a multi-purpose and multi-model database developed by triAGENS GmbH. ArangoDB comes with a simple and easy-to-use web interface and CLI for managing and monitoring databases. It is used in small and large organizations that process large amounts of data. ArangoDB is designed for high-performance and scalable applications that use SQL-like query language.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install the ArangoDB database on Ubuntu 20.04.

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