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• How to Monitor your CentOS 7 Server using Cacti

  Author: Liptan Biswas • Tags: centos, linux, monitoring • Comments: 1 • Published: Jun 30, 2017

  Cacti is a free and open source network graphing solution. It uses RRDTool for data gathering and graphing. It provides many features such as remote and local data collectors, network discovery, device management automation, graph templating etc. In this tutorial, we will install Cacti on CentOS 7 server.

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• Linux cp command tutorial for beginners (8 examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Jun 30, 2017

  If you are new to Linux, it's worth knowing that command line is a very powerful tool, capable of doing almost all those tasks that you can do through the graphical interface. The Linux cp command provides you the power to copy files and directories through the command line. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basic usage of this tool using easy to understand examples.

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• How to Install Joomla with Apache on Debian 9 (Stretch)

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: apache, debian, linux, server, web server • Comments: 0 • Published: Jun 29, 2017

  Joomla is one of the most popular and widely supported open source content management system (CMS) platform in the world that can be used to build, organize, manage and publish content for websites, blogs, Intranets and mobile applications. Thie tutorial describes the installation of Joomla with Apache web server and MariaDB on Debian 9.

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• How to Install Streama on CentOS 7

  Author: Liptan Biswas • Tags: centos, linux, server, web server • Comments: 0 • Published: Jun 29, 2017

  Streama is a free and open source media streaming application. It's a self-hosted alternative to Netflix. It has numerous features such as easy drag and drop media management, beautiful media player, live sync watching, multi-user, subtitles and resume capability etc. In this tutorial, we will install Streama on CentOS 7 server.

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• Samba 4 Additional Domain Controller for failover Replication on CentOS 7

  Author: iron_michael86 • Tags: centos, linux, samba, server • Comments: 3 • Published: Jun 28, 2017

  In this tutorial, I will show you how to configure an additional domain controller which is one of the key features of SAMBA 4. This setup provides a degree of load balancing and failover for AD services (Ldap schemas and dns ) and configuring it is really easy. We can also use this feature to scale up the environment.

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• Install Nginx with ngx_pagespeed on CentOS 7

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: centos, linux, server, web server • Comments: 0 • Published: Jun 27, 2017

  Ngx-pagespeed is a free and open source Nginx module that can be used to speeds up your site and reduces page load time. It works by automatically applying web performance best practices to pages and associated assets without requiring you to modify your existing content or workflow. You can easily optimize various files such as CSS, HTML, png, and jpg using Ngx-pagespeed module.

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• How to Install Restyaboard on CentOS 7

  Author: Liptan Biswas • Tags: centos, linux, server • Comments: 1 • Published: Jun 26, 2017

  Restyaboard is a free and open-source Kanban board application. It is the best self-hosted alternative to Trello. It is written in PHP and uses PostgreSQL to store its database. In this tutorial, we will install Restyaboard on CentOS 7 server.

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• Software Defined Networking (SDN) - Architecture and role of OpenFlow

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, networking • Comments: 1 • Published: Jun 23, 2017

  In our previous article, we had a good overview of SDN as a technology, why it’s needed, and how IT industry is adopting it. Now, let’s get a layer deeper, and understand SDN’s architecture and the role of the Openflow protocol in the implementation of the technology.

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• Linux cksum command explained for beginners (with examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Jun 22, 2017

  In Linux, there's a command line tool that you can use to create/verify checksum. It's dubbed cksum. Most vendors offer a checksum (or a checksum-like code) corresponding to the file(s) being downloaded. If the file doesn't behave in an expected way, user's can recompute the file's checksum and compare it with the original checksum provided by the vendor to see if the file is intact or got corrupted.

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• Linux clear command tutorial for beginners (3 examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Jun 21, 2017

  Sometimes, while working on the command line, you arrive at a point where there's too much text on the terminal screen, and none of that is relevant to you. So, in order to avoid distraction, you'd want to clear the terminal screen. Those new to the Linux command line may not know that there exists a dedicated command line utility that does this work for you.

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