Introduction cPanel is one of the most widely used and industry-leading web hosting control panels available today. With over 70,000 server installations powering over 11 million domains, cPanel provides an intuitive graphical interface and robust toolset to easily manage every aspect of a hosting environment. First launched in 1996, cPanel has been under continual enhancement ..
Category : Linux system administration
Introduction As companies adopt Docker containers to achieve improved efficiency and velocity of application deployment, monitoring and observability become increasingly critical for running containers in production. Monitoring provides valuable metrics, logs and insights into how both applications and infrastructure are performing. This enables teams to troubleshoot issues proactively before they cause downstream impacts, as well ..
MySQL and MariaDB are one of the most popular open source relational database management systems. It powers many of the world’s most visited web services and applications. As usage grows, performance tuning becomes essential to optimize MySQL and avoid issues like slow queries. Mysqltuner is an open source Perl script that helps analyze and tune ..
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion and provides far more addresses than IPv4. ..
Introduction WireGuard is a modern, fast, and secure VPN tunneling protocol that can be used to establish encrypted tunnels between machines to create private networks. It aims to be simpler, leaner, and more performant than older VPN protocols like IPsec and OpenVPN. In this guide, we will walk through the full process of setting up ..
Introduction Galera Cluster enables building a high availability MySQL / MariaDB database cluster without compromising data consistency. By replicating data across nodes in real-time, Galera provides continuous uptime even when individual nodes fail. In this comprehensive tutorial, we will walk through the steps to configure a two node Galera cluster on Ubuntu/Debian and CentOS/RHEL Linux. ..
Introduction Bind (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an open source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the Internet. It is the most widely used DNS software on the Internet. Setting up Bind as a private network DNS server provides a number of benefits: In this guide, we will cover the steps ..
Tar is a utility for archiving and compressing files in Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. It allows you to bundle multiple files and directories into a single .tar archive file, while preserving permissions and directory structures. Tar is extremely useful for backing up data, moving groups of files between systems, and preparing source code distributions. ..
Introduction OpenSSL is an open-source toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. It is used to provide cryptographic functions and secure communications capabilities in many software packages and applications. In this comprehensive guide, we will walk through ..
Kubernetes is a powerful open-source container orchestration platform used for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the process of installing Kubernetes on both Ubuntu/Debian and CentOS/RHEL systems. We will use popular tools such as kubeadm, kubectl, and kubelet to set up a functional Kubernetes cluster. Prerequisites Before diving into ..