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Every now and again you’re going to need to do some troubleshooting and that will sometimes mean some debugging is needed too. Any server can suffer from hard

Syslog also includes an assigned severity level. If you’re running an increasingly larger and complex web server hosting operation then you should perhaps con

Zip is a near-ubiquitous universal file archive commonly used on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can create a zip archive, zip compressed volume, unzip files, an

Well, that’s what’s supposed to happen. Bad actors have a number of ways of subverting and hijacking that and that’s why it’s important to maintain update

Postfix originally started life as a mail server created by Wietse Venema, at IBM Research. It was developed and used as an alternative to the widely-used Sendm

Some unexpected behavior on the web server can at times be caused by system resource limitations. Processes often do this and sometimes quite excessively. Linux

Once you’ve installed CentOS, securing it to prevent unauthorized access and intrusions comes second. As the saying goes, ‘prevention is better than the cur

TrueCrypt is an open-source, on-the-fly encryption system that ceased further development and maintenance by its creators in June 2014. This, however, hasn’t

Very early on in your career as a web server sysadmin, it’ll soon become necessary to use an awesome tool called LVM.

Permissions are super important in all things web server connected and your control panel is a great place to get these right. The permissions set for files and