How to Set Up Remote Desktop (RDP) Access on a Windows VPS
Connect to your Windows VPS over RDP, then lock it down properly. Changing the port from 3389 does almost nothing. Restricting the source IP does almost everything.
Category: Operating Systems
How to Automate Server Backups with Cron and rsync on a Linux VPS
Automate server backups with rsync and cron, get them off the server, and test a real restore. Most backups fail silently for months before anyone notices.
How to Secure Your Website with a Free SSL Certificate (Let’s Encrypt)
A complete, beginner-friendly walkthrough for installing a free, auto-renewing SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt and Certbot on your Linux VPS.
How to check VPS Server parameters with Linux command
When you just bought a VPS but don’t know if the provider has the same configuration as the package you bought, or you want to see how much of the hard drive, RAM and CPU space you can use. commands…
How to change the Root account password of Linux VPS
What is the root account in VPS? Each operating system has a special user account and is granted the highest privileges, and in Linux it is the root account. Usually when you buy VPS, the provider will create and send…
How DNS works
With a domain, an inquiring browser can find the server on which the web pages and the associated materials are located, even if each server connected to the Internet is only identifiable by a number, the so-called IP address. The…
Web Hosting Security
Security in web hosting is affected by four areas. At the top is the security of the data centers that the hosting provider has to take care of. This includes non-technical things like building security, fail-safe power supplies (chords and…
How do I optimize the loading time of my site and increase Google PageSpeed?
The speed of a website can be influenced and increased by the consideration and optimization of the following points: Reduce / reduce HTTP requests Your website can be rendered faster when fewer HTTP requests are made. Limit the number of…
How To Set Up A Firewall On Your Linux Server
One of the most commonly used security framework in Linux Netfilter, this functionality is within the Linux kernel and provides flexibility for various network – related operations to be implemented in the form of custom drivers. Netfilter offers several options…
How To Set Up A Home Server
Hardware components: A router with Internet connection, a computer that acts as web server and network RJ45 cabling to connect the router to your computer. Software components: OS Windows or Linux, Apache server, a program for creating and editing Web…
Common Server Issues and Solutions
One of the most common uses of the server online is to host websites . This is made possible by software that serves content http among other things. In this post I will explain some tricks to detect and repair…
Common Errors on Yum on CentOS, RHEL or Fedora
Yum is a package management tool to install, update and remove packages rpm based RedHat systems, soon to be replaced by dnf . Sometimes when you try to install a package with the yum command, errors can occur for several…