Apache alias; Map URL to a filesystem location
Apache alias is the method to use the filesystem other than under the document root. Setting an alias directory with Apache means that when going to the specified URL path…
Tag: VPS
How to attach BuyVM Block storage slabs
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 SSH password login on Ubuntu
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…
Ping address and get min, max & average with PHP
How to ping an address and return the min, max and average results with PHP on both Windows and Linux. The reason the operating system matters is because the ping…
Full install & setup of Apache, PHP 8, MySQL and SSL on Ubuntu 20.04
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…
Vultrs new South Korea location
Location number 17 for Vultr is Seoul, South Korea in the Asia Pacific region. Surprisingly Vultr’s newest location is another addon to its Asia-pacific region with Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul and…
Basic usage of UFW on Ubuntu
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 game server with SteamCMD
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….
Installing and setting up SteamCMD on Ubuntu
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…
Changing or setting hostname on Ubuntu 18
How to easily change the hostname on your Ubuntu VPS server, this will work with Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 19.10 and 20.04. Use hostnamectl to view the system hostname and id…