Linux Is Being Hit with Zero-Day Exploits/ Zero-Day Attacks
It was once the popular opinion that Linux was immune to zero-day exploits. However, even before the Equifax exploit, vulnerabilities were found in Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu. In...
View ArticleHow to Create Linux Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure
In 2017 Microsoft revealed that 40% of Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux-based. Next, it was revealed in an interview for ZDNet last year that about half of Azure VMs are Linux. With this... The...
View ArticleBest Compression Software for Linux
Every administrator or user will use file compression to save disk space and to move data easily. Nowadays, this utility is the bread and butter of system administrators to send data via the...
View ArticleBeginner’s guide to learn Docker Compose (docker-compose.yml)
Docker compose is one of the most important docker utility & it is must learn if you want to know/learn about docker. Docker-compose is used for running multiple containers using a single file...
View ArticleSimple guide to configure Nginx reverse proxy with SSL
A reverse proxy is a server that takes the requests made through web i.e. http & https, then sends them to backend server (or servers). A Backend server can be a single or group... The post Simple...
View ArticleBrief & Simple guide to install SLACK on Ubuntu
Slack is a team messaging application used for team collaboration, communication. It provides many IRC like features like chat rooms, private groups & direct messaging. Users can share files or...
View ArticleInstall Python PIP: A python package manager
PIP is a package manager for python-based software, PIP actually is a recursive acronym for ‘PIP installs python’ or ‘PIP install packages’. Using PIP, we can install, uninstall the python based...
View ArticleCreate a free Apache SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS & RHEL...
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated & open certificate authority that is supported by ISRG, Internet Security Research Group. Let’s encrypt provides X.509 certificates for TLS (Transport Layer...
View ArticleGuide to install DNS on CentOS 8/RHEL 8
All website or resources on the internet mostly uses meaningful URLs to locate themselves but we must know that behind the scenes, these resources have IP addresses assigned. & basically these IP...
View ArticleHow can i install SNAP on Linux (CentOS/Ubuntu) ???
What is SNAP ??? Snap is containerized software packages that are simple to create & install. Snap packages are safe to run, they auto-update & we can also roll-back the changes easily. Snap...
View ArticleComplete guide to install Zimbra Mail on CentOS & RHEL
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) or commonly known as Zimbra Mail, is a collaborative software suite that includes an email server and a web client. It also includes contacts, file sharing, calendar,...
View ArticleMonitoring Infrastructure: Simple guide to install Prometheus
There are plenty of Open-Source monitoring solutions available & we have also discussed many of those monitoring solutions on our website like Nagios, Zabbix, OMD, Glances, etc. In this tutorial,...
View ArticleInstall Grafana & integrate with Prometheus for complete monitoring
In our previous tutorial, we learned how to install Prometheus & gather the system data for monitoring but the data provided by Prometheus was in raw format & was not at all easy to... The post...
View ArticleLinux Security: Using Open-Source Tools to Protect Your System
Linux is often hailed as being more secure than alternative systems, namely Windows and macOS. While this may be true in some cases, the actual security of your systems depends primarily on the...
View ArticleAnalyzing Webserver logs with Lostalgia
There are many tools available to analyze the web server logs but none is as interesting as lostalgia. Lostalgia is a real-time website visualization tool that analyzes the web server logs &...
View ArticleHow to use ZIP COMMAND in Linux
Zip command in Linux is used for compressing files & folders to reduce their size for the purpose of archival, backup, or for file transfer. Zip command can compress single or multiple files and......
View ArticleLinux monitoring tool: Install OMD (Open Monitoring Distribution)
OMD or Open Monitoring Distribution is one of the best things that will make every System Admin’s day. OMD is an open source server, network monitoring, Linux monitoring tool that comes bundled with...
View ArticleHow to perform Linux System Backup
Backup is important to organizations that work with sensitive data and confidential files. There are many different scenarios where you might want to backup your Linux system. For instance, a major...
View ArticleHow do i install Dropbox on Ubuntu (18.04 or other versions)
Online storage, clod storage are all the future for all our data storage needs & we can now find a number of Cloud providers that provide such services. & one of the leading such... The post...
View ArticleHow to install NodeJS on Linux (CentOS/Ubuntu)
Node.js or as commonly called NodeJS, is an open source , cross platform Java Run time environment based Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, meant for server-side programming. It allows us to run scripts on...
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