Manage, add and delete users on Ubuntu
An important part in Linux server management, creating and deleting users. Despite being simple these commands form the basis of administration alongside permissions. Add a user Creating new users can…
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Understanding CPU server load
Server CPU load is the amount of CPU tasks waiting to be processed and running, The outcome is relative to the amount of CPU available. A load of 1 when…
Get time taken to execute task in Ubuntu
To check and get a detailed response on how long a task took on your Ubuntu server you can use the time utility. Note that this is not the inbuilt…
How to do a ping test on Ubuntu
Thankfully pinging from an Ubuntu server is very similar to how its done on Windows systems. To ping a website or ip address 4 times use ping -c 4 hostname…
Creating SSH key access to your Linux VPS
Typical SSH connection is with username and a password, without adding extra security that leaves the server open to brute force or access from anyone who can read your printed…
Vultr; Old vs new instances
Benchmarking and putting the older SSD Vultr series of cloud against the new high frequency NVMe based servers. It is known that the high frequency CPU is at 3.8Ghz and…
Linux is more popular than Windows on Azure
Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure has more Linux instances running on it than Windows, showing the decline in Windows Server (GUI based) is happening even on Microsoft’s own platform. This…
Basic Linux commands Part 2: Storage and disk information
Part 2 in the Basic Linux commands; How to view storage space details and information such as free space on Linux, Part 1 was Navigation, folders and files. Viewing disk…
Basic Linux commands Part 1: Navigation, folders and files
No GUI just text, Starting out with terminal can be confusing and daunting. Looking past the black console commands are actually fairly simple. Here are the basics in navigation and…
Full install and setup of Apache, PHP, MySQL, SSL and FTP Ubuntu 18.10
How to install a full web server setup on Ubuntu 18.10 x64. This will also work on other versions of Ubuntu such as 18.04 and 16.04 x64. Installing Apache with…