July 1, 2016 by Angel Leon-Glass under VPS Hosting
Introduction This how-to will show how to use the OpenSSH program to connect one Linux server to another via command line. It’s a very simple process that requires little know-how, but can be useful for many projects. Normally, on Windows, you would just use the software PuTTY to connect through SSH, but this isn’t available […]
January 26, 2016 by Editorial Team under VPS Hosting
Verified and Tested 1/20/16 Introduction This how-to will help walk you through adding LVM to DRBD. Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) is a block level replication between two or more nodes and is used as a replacement for shared storage by created a networked mirror. DRBD is used in environments that require systems or data […]
January 18, 2016 by Editorial Team under Dedicated Server Hosting
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 you’re probably going to want to get an FTP server running on a machine. There is a vast array of options for a server, depending on what […]
January 13, 2016 by Editorial Team under VPS Hosting
Verified and Tested 8/26/16 Introduction This how-to will show you how to install LEMP on a Debian 8.3 cloud server. LEMP is a web service stack that consists of a Linux operating system, NGINX, MySQL, and PHP. The main difference between LAMP and LEMP is that LAMP uses Apache and LEMP uses NGINX. LEMP has […]
January 7, 2016 by Editorial Team under VPS Hosting
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 article, we are using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit in our Cloud. However, this also works on any modern version of Ubuntu or Debian. We will be making a […]
January 4, 2016 by Editorial Team under HIPAA Compliant Hosting
Introduction In this guide, we show how easy it is to get one of the most popular GUI’s installed called GNOME Desktop. Some of the special features of GNOME are Activities overview. This special feature give one click access to show all open windows and programs running in the background. It also has a powerful […]
December 21, 2015 by Editorial Team under VPS Hosting
Introduction The ELK stack is a popular set of tools consisting of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. These three tools form a software stack that can function as an extremely powerful centralized network data analytics and server log visualization tool. The ELK stack is also designed to be very capable of scaling out across multiple servers […]
October 30, 2015 by Editorial Team under VPS Hosting
Verified and Tested 10/30/15 Introduction At some point in their career, everyone is going to troubleshoot an issue. And everyone has their favorite troubleshooting step to use. For a lot of system admins, the first step to do is make sure that everything is up-to-date. For others it’s only a matter of checking log files […]
October 20, 2015 by Editorial Team under VPS Hosting
Verified and Tested 10/20/15 Introduction This how-to will take you through installing WordPress on Debian 8.2 “jessie”. WordPress is an open source blogging and CMS platform. WordPress has thousands of plugins that you can use to make your site customized to your needs. Prerequisite To install WordPress, a Debian 8.2 server running LAMP or LEMP […]
October 16, 2015 by Editorial Team under VPS Hosting
Introduction One of the most important things to consider when deploying any servers for your business or development needs is to make sure that it’s in a location that works for you. Let’s say you’ve deployed a server and then used one of the IP geolocation websites and found that your server’s IP does not match […]
