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How-to: Kickstart CentOS servers on Hetzner Cloud
Introduction Hetzner Cloud provides official pre-built CentOS images. The installimage script can be used to provision custom images. A much simpler approach exists that also grants the same control over package selection and disk partitioning without any external resources or manual image creation steps. CentOS and other Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives support a standard way to achieve…
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Install and Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt in Debian 10
Introduction Nginx web service is one of the most popular web servers in the world and is used as a web service in large and highly visited websites. Let’s Encrypt is an SSL or CA security certificate issuer that is free to install on the web server and use as an HTTPS protocol. In this…
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Install & Configure OGP Agent & CSGO Server in Debian or Ubuntu
Introduction In this tutorial we will be installing the Agent of OGP which is responsible for running game servers. We will also learn to run a basic CSGO game server using it. You can also follow similar procedure to run various other supported game servers. We can install Agent in same server where Panel is…
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Install Jitsi Meet on Debian/Ubuntu
Introduction Jitsi Meet is an open-source (Apache) WebRTC JavaScript application that uses Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, secure and scalable video conferences. It can be used as a replacement for proprietary services like Zoom, Whereby, Teams, Skype and many others. You can try it out on meet.jit.si. There are more public instances available in the jitsi-meet…
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DNS Validated Let’s Encrypt Certificates
Introduction In order to help users encrypt traffic to your server, you need a valid TLS/SSL certificate. Let’s Encrypt is an organization which issues such certificates for free. However, you have to prove ownership over the domain, for which you want the certificate. This tutorial guides you through getting a wildcard certificate for your domain,…
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Install and secure Netdata using nginx http basic authentication
Introduction Netdata is a distributed, real-time performance and health monitoring tool for systems and applications. It is a highly-optimized monitoring agent that can be installed on Linux servers. In this tutorial, we’re going to install Netdata and learn how to prevent public access to its web interface since Netdata doesn’t provide authentication by itself. Prerequisites…
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A quick and easy way to install Trilium Notes
Introduction Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. See the Trilium Github page for more details. In this tutorial we will deploy a Trilium instance to install this open source and self-hosted alternative to Evernote on a fresh Debian server. Prerequisites To get this running you would need…
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Setting up a packet filter on Linux
Introduction This article is about understanding and using the functions of iptables. Attention: Caution is advised, due to ill-considered changes to the firewall, you can quickly be locked out of the system. Prerequisites root access to a Linux shell with iptables installed Section 1 – What is iptables? iptables is a userspace program that is used to configure…
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Installing Windows without KVM
Introduction This tutorial covers the installation of a Windows operating system on dedicated hardware without using a KVM console. Prerequisites A dedicated server running in a Rescue System More than 8 GB RAM in the server Step 1 – Prepare Server Once the server is in the Rescue System (Linux x64), the following software must…
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Installation and configuration of Shopware 6
Introduction Shopware is a trendsetting ecommerce platform to power your online business. It offers a combination of beauty & brains needed to build and customize a fully responsive online store. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Shopware 6 with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04. Prerequisites Make sure you are logged in…
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