In this article, we will go over five different ways to empty/delete a large file in Linux.
You might have a file that’s gigabytes in size that you want to get rid of quickly, or you want to automate emptying a file for each iteration. Whatever the case may be, you’ll be able to easily delete or empty a file with help from this article.
We’ll be running these commands on an Ubuntu 22.04 VPS, but pretty much all of these commands should work on any modern distribution.
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Bagisto is an open-source eCommerce platform built using Laravel framework and VueJS. The framework is very flexible and easy to use, even for non-tech users. Bagisto offers Multi-Warehouse Inventory; almost everything you need when building an eCommerce website is available in Bagisto. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bagisto Ecommerce on Almalinux.
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Uptime Kuma is an open-source monitoring solution. We can monitor our websites and servers’ uptime and configure them to send us notifications via multiple options, like Telegram, email, Discord, etc. Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use monitoring tool, and it is powerful for traffic control, observability, service discovery, etc. This article will show you how to install Uptime Kuma on Ubuntu 22.04.
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Apache CouchDB is a free yet reliable non-relational or NoSQL database engine. It is written in Erlang language and natively supports data in JSON format. The data can be accessed and queried via the HTTP protocol, making it easier and more scalable than traditional SQL relational databases like MySQL. CouchDB also offers replication capability and provides high availability access. This tutorial will show you how to install CouchDB on AlmaLinux.
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A website’s performance depends on many factors, and choosing a suitable web server is one of them. You can choose from many web servers, like Apache, LiteSpeed, Nginx, etc.
Nginx is an open-source web server, it was initially developed by Igor Sysoev and released in October 2004. In Nginx, gzip compression can significantly reduce the size of transmitted data to website visitors.
Modern web browsers support GZIP compression by default. However, we need to configure our server to serve the compressed resources to our website visitors properly. Without a proper configuration, it could make your server load higher and even slower. This article will show you how to improve website performance using GZIP and Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04.
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In this tutorial we are going to install and explain in step-by-step detail how to configure CSF on AlmaLinux OS.
Config Server Firewall or CSF is a free and advanced firewall for most Linux distributions. CSF can be easily installed on a server with control panels such as DirectAdmin, WHM/cPanel and etc. It includes security features such as login, intrusion, flood detections, and many more. With CSF we can easily block IP addresses, whitelist IP addresses, open and close ports and etc.
Installing and configuring CSF on AlmaLinux is a straightforward process that may take up to 10 minutes. Let’s get started!
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In this tutorial we are going to explain to you 10 useful iptables commands applicable in any Linux distro.
Iptables on Linux servers are used for controlling the incoming and outgoing web traffic. The traffic is controlled by the iptables rules in the firewall written by system administrators or users familiar with Linux servers. The rules in iptables are stored in tables that have chains for every defined rule. In this blog post, we are going to use Ubuntu 22.04 as OS, but you can choose any distro if you want to try these iptables commands by yourself. Let’s get started!
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In this tutorial, we are going to install iRedMail on AlmaLinux and explain the installation process in step-by-step detail.
iRedMail is an open-source email server software that is capable of supporting the latest IMAP, POP3, and SMTP protocols. In this blog post, we are going to install the iRedMail email server with the installation script. In the installation script are included Nginx as a web server, Postfix as a mail transfer agent, Dovecot as IMAP and POP3 server, SpamAssassin as a spam scanner, ClamAV as a virus scanner, OpenLDAP, iRedAPD and etc.
Installing iRedMail on AlmaLinux is a straightforward process and may take up to 10 minutes. Let’s get started!
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In this tutorial we are going to explain in step-by-step detail how to install and secure PhpMyAdmin on AlmaLinux.
PhpMyAdmin is a free and open-source tool written in PHP used for managing MySQL databases via browser. It provides a very easy and user-friendly interface, that allows users to easily create databases, create users, tables columns and etc in no time. In this blog post, we are going to install PhpMyAdmin with the LAMP stack.
Installing and securing PhpMyAdmin on AlmaLinux is a straightforward process and may take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get started!
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The default disk usage command from UNIX based system summarizes directories on trees’ sizes, so it includes all their contents and individual files sizes. But, it is helpful to track down space hogs on your system. In other words, it will list directories and files that consume large amounts of space on the hard disk drive.
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