Downloading, installing and upgrading Youtube-dl on Ubuntu 20.04 Youtube-dl is a command-line program to download Youtube videos in a variety of formats. Youtube-dl is designed to handle archive type tasks…
The basics of copying files and whole directories on Linux. Copying files on a Linux OS can be done with cp this is obviously short for “copy”. The syntax for…
A simple method and guide to attaching BuyVM storage disk slabs to your VPS. This post uses a 3TB disk slab and VPS running Ubuntu 20.04. Firstly make sure your…
How to disable normal username/password login authentication to your Ubuntu server, only allowing SSH key authentication. This gives you the advantages of SSH’s whilst securing your server that little bit…
Installing and setting up a LAMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04 x64. This post covers installing Apache with the brand new PHP 8, a MySQL server and finally enabling SSL with…
Getting image EXIF data on Ubuntu can be done with Exif, this is an Ubuntu package that can output and change JPEG EXIF data. Installing is done with: sudo apt-get…
Check if a process is running on a Linux system such as Ubuntu by using PHP. This is done by using pgrep and checking if its response is empty. pgrep…
Ubuntu comes packaged with a very easy to use firewall tool called UFW. This is literally meaning uncomplicated firewall for Ubuntu. The UFW syntax is a short and sweet option…
Downloading and installing a game server with SteamCMD on an Ubuntu based linux server. This is following on from this post about installing and setting up SteamCMD on Ubuntu 18….
SteamCMD is the official command-line version of the Steam client. Through the command line of SteamCMD you can install, update and run Steam game servers, making it ideal for Linux…