When researching hosting options, it’s easy to get confused by all the technical jargon. Shared, dedicated, cloud… the options seem endless. This post is aimed at helping you become familiar with VPS hosting, an option that has become the preferred option due to agility, scalability, and power. Read on to get the scoop. What makes…

Previously we have looked at how user accounts work the MySQL or MariaDB database systems, and how you can both create and remove them. This time we’ll be looking at making those users useful by ensuring that they have privileges to actually make changes to your database. Managing Privileges First, let’s look at the commands…

Previously, we discussed installing Tripwire on a system running the Debian or Ubuntu Linux distributions as a means of detecting intrusions on your system. This time we’ll be looking at continuing to get it set up and running. Initializing the Database When we left off, we had Tripwire configured with a basic configuration that will…

As a website’s traffic increases, you can often find that the site is repeatedly serving the same files over and over again from disk. This can cause a problem whereby the server can reach the performance limits of its disks repeatedly loading and serving the same files to visitors. This problem is exacerbated by media…

HTML, CSS and Javascript are three technologies that make up the majority of websites. Without them the World Wide Web as we know it wouldn’t exist. So what are they and how do they work? First lets look at HTML, or to give it it’s full name, HyperText Markup Lanquage. The creation of HTML is…

Taking a look at the top ten companies in the cloud computing sector provides an interesting insight into the state of the industry today.

Witness the journey of this beloved, faithful tool , LAMP stacks, as it rises to its esteemed position in the eyes of developers.

If you have made an application that needs to be controlled or managed by the init process on your system, or alternately have installed a third party application from outside of your repositories, then you are probably familiar with the creation of init scripts. For those that aren’t, these init scripts deal with the process…

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If your company has not yet signed a cloud computing contract, chances are you are considering one sometime in the near future. Look at are lists of warning signs to be aware of.