System Admin

How to Resize a Disk in FreeBSD

The FreeBSD operating system utilizes UFS (Unix File System) for its root partition's file system; otherwise known as freebsd-ufs In the event of an upgraded disk size, we will illustrate how to expand this file system. Prerequisites 1) To follow this ...

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Recovering Data via SFTP

Recovering Data via SFTP In cases where the installed OS encounters an error that does not allow the OS to boot normally it may be necessary to retrieve data from this instance prior to attempting repairs or re-installation. This process uses a live CD t...

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How to Deploy Ghost on Fedora 25

This article is a port of my How to Deploy Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04 tutorial. It has been updated for Fedora 25. Ghost is an open source blogging platform that is gaining popularity among developers and ordinary users since its 2013 release. It puts focus o...

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HTTP Git Server With Nginx on Debian 8

Git is a version control system (VCS) that enables the tracking of changes in code. In this tutorial, we will walk through installing a HTTP(S) Git server, and adding username/password authentication. Prerequisites Debian 8 (Jessie). Sudo. Text editor ...

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Install Nginx with Ngx_pagespeed on CentOS 7

Introduction Ngx-pagespeed is an open source Nginx module that speeds up your site and reduces page load time. It does so by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth. Ngx-pagespeed also provides many optimization filters that are used to optim...

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How to Install and Configure AutoMySQLBackup on Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction AutoMySQLBackup is a free and open source tool that can be used to create backups of your MySQL databases at varying intervals, such as daily, weekly, and monthly. It uses mysqldump to create backups of one or more MySQL databases from one o...

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Setup Staytus on Ubuntu

Introduction This guide show you how you can install Staytus, which is a modern, intuitive and even open-source status page for your product. Requirements Ubuntu 14.04+ 15 minutes time Pre-requirements Let's get started with installing all the requ...

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Setup NFS Share on Debian

NFS is a network-based file system that allows computers to access files across a computer network. This guide explains how you can expose folders over NFS from one instance to another. Vultr's private network feature assists you with securing the connect...

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How to Install Apache 2.4.x, MariaDB 10.x, and PHP 7.x on Ubuntu 16.04

When deploying a web site or a web app, the most common web service solution for that is to setup a LAMP stack which consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. In this article, we will learn how to setup an up-to-date LAMP stack by installing the latest ...

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How to Install Cockpit on CentOS 7

Cockpit is a free and open source program for Linux server management. It is very lightweight and has a beautiful, easy to use web interface. It allows system administrators to easily perform tasks such as starting Docker containers, storage administratio...

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