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Creating SSH Host Shortcuts
Creating SSH Host Shortcuts Category: Getting Started   If you are managing a number of servers a big timesaver is anything that means you can type less to connect to the server required. This is where the SSH config file can be very helpful. By ...
Colouring Prompts to Differentiate Users
Colouring Prompts to Differentiate Users Category: Getting Started   Command prompts are something that most of the big distributions have standardised these days. With BASH as the default shell with its highly customisable command prompt, it’s a ...
Keeping Up To Date - The Importance of Preparation
Keeping Up To Date – The Importance of Preparation Category: Getting Started   The saying that Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance is one often repeated; usually after someone rushes to do something and makes a mess of it. The rush to patch ...
The Boot Process Explained
The Boot Process Explained Category: Getting Started   If you’ve ever watched a Linux computer boot up you’ve probably noticed a number of stages to it and different screens. Though a lot of distributions now hide the more complex parts behind a ...
Prioritising Processes With Nice and Renice
Prioritising Processes With Nice and Renice Category: Getting Started   Processes on a system all have a priority assigned to them which is referred to as it’s niceness. This is a concept that harks back to shared user systems where the priority ...
Monitoring Processes With ps
Monitoring Processes With ps Category: Getting Started   The importance of being able to see what the processes on your system are doing can never really be understated. It’s pretty much expected that at some point you’ll be staring at a terminal ...
Configuring two-factor authentication in Ubuntu 14.04 using Google Authenticator
Configuring two-factor authentication in Ubuntu 14.04 using Google Authenticator Category: Cloud Servers   Access control is one of the more important aspects of running a server. Making sure that users only have access to what they need and not ...
Two-Factor authentication for SSH in CentOS 6 using Google Authenticator
Two-Factor authentication for SSH in CentOS 6 using Google Authenticator Category: Cloud Servers   The security of your server is strongly reliant on establishing the identity of your users at login time. This is something that the username and ...
Automating Your Systems With Cron
Automating Your Systems With Cron Category: Getting Started   Cron is a tool designed to schedule tasks and automate performing them. It comes as standard with pretty much all Linux distributions, making it easy to schedule the running of scripts ...
Configure MySQL Master-Master replication
Configure MySQL Master-Master replication Category: Databases   Configuring MySQL in a master-slave replicate model adds complexity to the application utilizing the database. The application has to be programmed to send the write queries only to ...
Migration options
Migration options Category: Cloud Servers, Control panels, cPanel, Getting Started, OS related issues, Other control panels, Other services, VPS.net dashboard, VPS.net features, Web servers   Migration involves moving a set of instructions or ...
Content Delivery Network - Level 3 CDN
Content Delivery Network – Level 3 CDN Category: CDN   In today’s Internet-driven world, an audience demands instant access to online content – whether they’re accessing a company websites and online applications, or downloading music files or ...
Device name change issues after system upgrade
Device name change issues after system upgrade Category: OS related issues, Other services, VPS.net dashboard, VPS.net features   If server does not boot up correctly and manual file system check as described in the article here: ...
Install ConfigServer Firewall On A cPanel Server
ConfigServer Firewall (CSF) is a popular Linux firewall security suite. It is easy to install, flexible to configure and secure with extra checks. CSF helps control exactly how much traffic is allowed in and out of the server to protect the server ...
FTP Instructions
FTP Instructions Category: Hosted Apps   File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one computer to another. FTP users may authenticate themselves using a clear-text sign-in protocol. To begin, you will ...
Level3 Media Portal Overview
Level3 Media Portal Overview Category: CDN   The Level 3 CDN Media Portal is the access point for managing the caching, streaming and storage tools for your content. Through this portal, you can view reports about your data and check how your ...
Creating On Demand Stream Links
Creating On Demand Stream Links Category: On Demand Streaming   Creating Links in Reverse Proxy Mode When using Reverse Proxy mode, the customer has a choice in how they create their On Demand stream links. Customers can elect to directly embed ...
Creating a Geo Hosting account
Creating a Geo Hosting account Category: Getting Started   It’s as easy as 1-2-3. You can either sign up for our Geo Hosting directly from the website or – if you already have your account with us – from your dashboard by clicking on Geo Hosting ...
Working with Geo Hosting account
Working with Geo Hosting account Category: Getting Started   For the best overall performance and stability results we limit one Geo Hosting account to using one domain name only. At the same time you can have unlimited amount of Geo Hosting ...
Managing VPS Labels and Backups
Managing VPS Labels and Backups Category: Cloud Servers, VPS.net dashboard, VPS.net features   You may wish to edit the details of your VPS for many reasons, for example you may have forgotten to enable backups when creating it or the purpose of ...