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Business operations are increasingly moving online. Most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) start their web hosting journey with a virtual private server (VPS). Whether managing it in-house or hiring a system administrator, VPS security is vital to the success of any business. Web hosting providers usually offer unmanaged or managed VPS hosting with several options […]
If you’re setting up your Linux server, one of the first things on your checklist might be to change the MySQL port. Or perhaps you want to integrate your server with a 3rd party application that only connects to a specific MySQL port. Whatever the reason, this tutorial will show you how to change the […]
The “Warning: Remote Host Identification has Changed” message appears when you try and connect over SSH to a remote server, and there’s a mismatch between the server’s public key and what’s stored on your local machine. In this article, I’ll explain how to replicate the error, what it means, how to fix it in both […]
It’s important to know your Ubuntu version for a variety of reasons. Luckily, doing so from the command line is easy and if you’re using the desktop version, you can also check it using the GUI. This article will also explain Ubuntu’s versioning system, and how it’s important for you to know Canonical’s long-term support […]
Ubuntu is a great choice for your VPS OS. While I personally prefer to use CentOS due to familiarity, Ubuntu wins for its fast release cycle, user-friendliness, and willingness to adapt to new technologies faster than RHEL-based systems. One example that we’ll touch upon in this tutorial is Snap packages, which come bundled with all […]
Updated: January 4, 2024 If you’re like me, you don’t use your VPS server for incoming mail. Instead, I only want to receive e-mails from my VPS for server events. But the hassle of configuring an incoming mail server, dealing with spam, storage issues, and more are too much for me. Instead, I outsource all […]
For ordinary people, VPS security measures need to start with preventing the most frequent threats and only later focus on the rare ones. A true DDoS attack can be impossible to mitigate for a single server – merely processing each request uses some resources, and a full-fledged attack can quickly cripple a server. For example, […]
If you’re like me, you rely on e-mails from your VPS server to inform you about important activities like backups, updates, and expiring SSL certificates. If you properly set up notifications, you minimize your time logging into your VPS and checking stuff. So it’s extremely important to ensure that these e-mails reach you on time. […]
NameHero’s VPS hosting is hosting that they manage for you, so you can focus your attention on your website instead of dealing with the headaches of server management. While NameHero doesn’t offer unmanaged VPS servers, many other web hosts do. In this article, let’s look at what separates unmanaged from managed VPS servers and why […]
Here’s how to configure your InterWorx VPS to take regular backups and store them on disk. When you buy a NameHero VPS, you can choose between cPanel and InterWorx. cPanel/WHM is more well known but also costs extra. Particularly since cPanel’s licensing changes, the value proposition of cPanel has gone down dramatically. This won’t affect […]