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…
Tag: VPS
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…
Checking and changing system time in Ubuntu
Most of the time a freshly installed server will automatically set its timezone to be locally orientated, this can be easily changed for user preference. Finding your Ubuntu systems time…
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 smashed by Ryzen 3950x VPS
Putting a dedicated server with an Intel Xeon E3-145 v5 4 cores, 8 threads at 3.9GHz with 32GB ram against a VPS with a Ryzen 3950x 6 processors at 3.49GHz…
How to install and run Geekbench on Ubuntu
Geekbench is a well-established multi-platform benchmarking tool that is designed to be easily comparable from processor to process, test to test. Geekbench mostly tests CPU power, speed and capabilities however…
Create automatic updates for Ubuntu
Here is a method to set up automatic updates on your Ubuntu server, avoiding the need to manually check and apply important security updates and patches. Start by updating your…
Installing FFmpeg on Ubuntu
How to install the popular media processing library FFmpeg on an Ubuntu server. The steps are straight forward and minimal. First start by updating your package list with: sudo apt…