Category: Linux
If you followed my previous guides for LEMP Install NGINX PHP7 MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04 Server then you probably installed NGINX from the Ubuntu repo. Unfortunately, the version in …
If you have a Linux virtual machine in VMware, there might be a time when you need to increase the disk size of a Linux native partition. In this …
PlayOnLinux is a Linux application that is based on Wine, which let’s you install Microsoft Windows programs on Linux. It runs on Bash and Python and is free to …
As an addition to my previous NGINX articles, today we’ll discuss how to adjust the number of child processes for PHP-FPM to fix the common error of “server reached …
A five-year-old serious privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel that affects almost every distro of the Linux operating system, including Red Hat and Ubuntu. Back in …
I recently came across an issue where an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server wasn’t syncing the time so the jitter and drifting of the time wasn’t correcting itself. This caused …
If you’re a Linux Systems Administrator or run an Ubuntu Linux Server for a small website somewhere, now would be a good time to plan an upgrade to Ubuntu …
A DNS server resolves website URLs into their IP addresses, which is how the internet functions. Without DNS, we would be typing in IP addresses into our browsers instead …
A zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel that has existed since 2005, being called DirtyCow. This bug affects a large number of popular …
If you’re a blogger or a web developer, there will hopefully come a time when you out-grow a shared host and need either a VPS or a dedicated server …