Let’s Encrypt

Securing Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

Website and data security are topics that cannot be taken lightly. Highly sensitive information which includes financial records and customers’ private information is always in transit between the user’s computer and your website. When you consider this fact, it’s not hard to see why unsecured websites could result in a breach that could seriously damage your business. There are a …

phpMyAdmin

Installing and Securing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04

MySQL is an open-source RDBMS based on SQL queries. It’s easy to use, secure, free, and open-source (under the GNU license). In addition, it is highly flexible, memory efficient, and high-performance. Because of all these features, MySQL finds its way in even the top-tier industries. When working with MySQL, most of the time, the interactions occur through the MySQL CLI …

Environmental and Shell Variables

How to Read and Set Environmental and Shell Variables on a Linux VPS

The majority of the tech community enjoys interacting with systems through the command-line interface (CMD) or shell. Generally, it makes their work easier. For instance, you can create a shell command that can execute several tasks automatically as opposed to having to click through several buttons of a GUI. When you launch a shell or CMD program, it compiles several …

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How to Ensure Security While Transferring Files With The Help Of SFTP

When you need to transfer data and files between two computers, there are two protocols that can finish the job. Тhe typically used method is the FTP or the File Transfer Protocol. However, rising concerns over the security of data moved from one device to another have encouraged the use of SFTP. SFTP stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol. It …

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How to Use Roles and Manage Permissions in PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an open-source DBMS which in turn uses SQL. It’s a very powerful tool that is used to manage applications and host web data on VPS. In this tutorial, you will learn how to manage permissions in PostgreSQL. It will help you to provide your application roles the required permissions. We will perform this tutorial using PostgreSQL on a …

SSH keys

How To Use SSH to Connect to a Remote Server in Ubuntu

What is SSH? SSH means Secure Shell. With SSH you can access remote machines in a secure way since the connection is encrypted. With the ssh command from the Linux terminal, we can connect to remote Linux servers and work as if it were our computer. At the end of this tutorial, you should have a full understanding of how …

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How to Install Anaconda on Ubuntu 18.04 in Six Simple Steps

Introduction Anaconda is an open-source package manager and framework for handling machine learning and data science workflows. It also helps to distribute some programming languages ​​like Python and R. With over 7500 different scientific data packages, Anaconda helps process large-scale data, scientific computing, and predictive analysis. This package is available as a free and paid version. In this tutorial, we …

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How to Install the LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL PHP) on Ubuntu 20.04

Introduction In the world of the internet, several technologies come together to form a solution that enables internet users to access dynamic content on the world wide web. LEMP stack is one of those solutions. It brings together four technologies that make a complete server solution for high-performance and dynamic websites. LEMP is an acronym for Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and …

VNC

How to Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 18.04

VNC (Virtual Network Computing ) allows you to use your server just like you use your computer- with the graphical user interface (GUI),  desktop, and your mouse and keyboard. It makes computing easier for users who are new to working on a server. Cloudsigma allows you to access VNC straight after creating the server. Along with that, in this tutorial, …

install Node.js on Ubuntu

How to install Node.js on Ubuntu 18.04

Node.js is an open-source platform that allows programmers to build dynamic web pages and applications. It is used widely for server-side scripting and allows users to use JavaScript for both client and server-side scripts. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Node.js on Ubuntu 18.04 and get started with it. Prerequisites First, you have to create a machine. …