Iptables is a very flexible firewall software that is built in by default on most Linux operating systems. This guide provides iptables basics; commands you can use …
Do you have sensitive or critical information on your computer that you want to protect? Store it in an encrypted container! An encrypted container is …
Server hardening is the practice of securing your system and improving your server’s ability to prevent unauthorized access. This is done by limiting the opportunities …
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for time and date synchronization between computers. Having an NTP server decreases the number of calls to …
As a web hosting company, we get many clients asking us about the difference between Windows Hosting versus Linux Hosting and which is the …
As a Linux user, working with command line can be a powerful tool as opposed to working through the GUI system. If you know …
To receive automatic disk alerts by email we’ll make use of three common Linux utilities. We will use badblocks to look for bad sectors on …
An alias allows us to come up with our own name for a command or group of commands. This is especially useful for long convoluted …
Linux has the native ability to support two filesystem types that allow for RAM-based storage: ramfs and tmpfs. A RAM disk can give faster-than-SSD read …