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 of
Category: System Administration

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 10 came with a lot of changes to the task manager and in some cases the default views have been simplified further than power users

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 Linux

As a Systems Administrator, you’ve probably worked with Group Policy before, especially if you’re in a Microsoft Windows environment. Group Policy allows you to push out settings to multiple computers

If you’re running a WordPress site on a Linux server running NGINX, then you might be interested in setting up a free SSL (HTTPS) certificate using Let’s Encrypt. The internet

As a Systems Administrator, it is always a good security measure to audit your Active Directory accounts on a regular basis. Tools like Netwrix can help automate this process by

If you’re a systems administrator and you’ve recently upgraded to Apple’s macOS Sierra, you may have noticed that macOS now stores your SSH key passphrase by default, without even giving

Sometimes you just have too many conflicts when synchronizing your offline files in Windows that you have to start over. In my case, I upgraded the file server to a

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 to