Basic Server Security Configuration

When you setup a new server, it takes just 5 hours before it starts receiving attacks. A developer’s primary concerns revolve around getting their application to run, getting some component…

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How Your WordPress Site Gets Hacked

Having your website hacked is one experience you wouldn’t like yet many people have had to deal with this one or more times. WordPress is the most popular content management…

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How to Create or Remove SWAP File in Centos 7

Swap refers to disk space used when the RAM is full. Inactive pages in RAM are pushed to swap to free up some RAM space for current processes to use….

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How to Disable MySQL Strict Mode on Centos 7

Strict Mode in MySQL controls how MySQL handles invalid or missing values in statements such as INSERT and UPDATE. If strict mode is not in effect, MySQL inserts adjusted values…

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My Linux Story

Since I was young, I always had a keen interest on computing – an interest I picked from my big brother. We had the privilege of interacting with computers from…

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Understanding the Linux Inode

An inode in Linux is a file structure that holds data about a file. In Linux, everything is treated as a file. This includes directories and devices such as keyboard,…

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Configuring date and time in RHEL 7/Centos 7

Knowing how to manage time via the command line is a useful skill to acquire. To best understand time, we need to understand the two types of clocks specified in…

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How to create a Web server using Nginx on Centos 7

In our project, the web server will be running on Nginx. Of course Apache is another great web server, but here, I’ll use Nginx v1.12.2. If you’d like the Apache…

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How to create a Database Server using MariaDB on Centos 7

In our project, the database server will run on MariaDB Prerequisites A VPS with Centos 7 installed Root access to the VPS What do we want? We intend to setup…

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How to create a Web server using Apache on Centos 7

In our project, the web server will be running on Apache. Of course Nginx is another great web server, but here, I’ll use Apache v2.4. If you’d like the Nginx…

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