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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DevOPs: What it is and why it is needed
What is DevOPs DevOps(Development and Operations) is the practice of bringing together operations and development where engineers work together in the entire product life cycle; from the design through the…
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OpenSSL
OpenSSL is an open source implementation of Secure Socket Layer(SSL) and Transport Layer Security for web authentication. The core library is written in C programming language and it offers cryptographic…
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Data Encryption : PGP and GPG
Data that can be read and understood without any special measures is called plaintext. The process of disguising plaintext to hide its meaning and substance is called encryption. When a…
Read More »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….
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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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Commands to check memory usage in Linux
Having sufficient physical memory (RAM) on your system is critical for processes to run efficiently. Once the memory runs out, your system will start using the swap space and this…
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