For those of you who didn’t know, Hiawatha is a web server built with a focus on security. It has built-in rules that can prevent cross-site scripting and forgery, SQL injections, and resource expenditure. Although its focus is on security, it also excels in performance due to its lightweight design. When combining the Hiawatha webserver with PHP-FPM and MySQL, you can have a powerful web serv...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install DenyHost on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, DenyHosts is a log-based intrusion prevention security tool for SSH servers written in Python. It is intended to prevent brute-force attacks on SSH servers by monitoring invalid login attempts in the authentication log and blocking the originating IP addresses. Due to the simplicit...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install DenyHost on CentOS 6. For those of you who didn’t know, DenyHosts is a log-based intrusion prevention security tool for SSH servers written in Python. It is intended to prevent brute-force attacks on SSH servers by monitoring invalid login attempts in the authentication log and blocking the originating IP addresses. Due to the simplicity of Den...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LEMP on CentOS 6. For those of you who didn’t know, A LEMP software stack is a group of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym that represents the Linux operating system, with the Nginx webserver (which replaces the Apache component of ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LEMP on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, A LEMP software stack is a group of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym that represents the Linux operating system, with the Nginx webserver (which replaces the Apache component of ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Sentora on your Ubuntu 14.04. For those of you who didn’t know, Sentora is an open-source web hosting control panel built specifically to work on a variety of Linux distributions. Sentora is a fully-featured, free hosting control panel that can help you easily manage your server through its user-friendly interface. It is ea...
This tutorial will show you how to install LAMP on Ubuntu 15.04. For those of you who didn’t know, LAMP represents a full-featured stack containing the most popular web server known as Apache, the most popular database server MySQL and the most popular open-source web programming language known as PHP. All components are free and open-source software, and the combination is suitable for buildi...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Java JDK 9 on Ubuntu 15.04. For those of you who didn’t know, Java is a programming language and computing platform. It was first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Many programs and scripts require Java to run, but usually, Java are not installed by default on a VPS or Dedicated Server. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledg...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OwnCloud 8 on Ubuntu 15.04. For those of you who didn’t know, OwnCloud is free and open-source software that enables you to create a private “file-hosting” cloud. OwnCloud is similar to DropBox service with the difference of being free to download and install on your private server. Owncloud is made by PHP and backend database MySQL/MariaDB...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to change the ssh port on the Ubuntu system. For those of you who didn’t know, SSH is a program and protocol for securely connecting to remote machines across a network. It allows you to run programs, and do a variety of tasks as if you were sitting at the machine. SSH is very similar to telnet except it is with encryption to protect the transferred infor...