What are we doing? Setting a password for the root user Enabling login with SSH for root user Why? Root login is disabled by default on Ubuntu (and many other Linux distributions) as
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Install Monit on Ubuntu
What are we doing? Installing Monit on Ubuntu Why? Monit is a lightweight program that can monitor processes, restart them if they fail and send email alerts if there are problems. How? Update repositories
Read moreInstalling Git Core and Setting up First Repository
What are we doing? Generating SSH keys and adding them to bitbucket Installing Git core on our web server Setting up a repository Pushing a project to a repository Why? Version control is an industry
Read moreInstall and Configure Postfix as a Local SMTP Relay on Ubuntu
What are we doing? Deploying Postfix with Mailutils to setup a send-only SMTP server on Ubuntu server Why? Applications hosted on our server will be able to send us notifications, password reset emails etc Method
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HAProxy is an efficient and lightweight proxy for Debian Linux distributions. This guide will run through installation, configuration for round robin load balancing including health checks and URL based proxy pass. First up, update repositories
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