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Step-by-step guides to help you get the most out of your cloud infrastructure. Learn how to deploy, configure, and optimize your applications.

How To Setup Highly Available Web Servers with Keepalived & Floating IPs on Ubuntu 16.04.Linux

How To Setup Highly Available Web Servers with Keepalived & Floating IPs on Ubuntu 16.04.

Use keepalived to set up a highly available web service on Ubuntu 16.04 by using a floating IP address that can be moved between two capable web servers.

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How To Setup SSH Keys.Security

How To Setup SSH Keys.

SSH keys are by far the most secure way of logging into your cloud server via SSH. Passwords can be eventually cracked using brute-force attacks if they

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How to install, configure & use Jenkins on Ubuntu 14.04.Linux

How to install, configure & use Jenkins on Ubuntu 14.04.

Jenkins is an open source application that monitors execution of repetitive jobs, such as building a software project or jobs ran by cron. It’s written in

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Nginx Windows: How to Install.Nginx

Nginx Windows: How to Install.

Nginx is an extremely high performance web server which has the ability to handle thousands of requests per second with little hardware requirements. It

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How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux.General

How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux.

Minecraft is popular sandbox indie game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. It is

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How To Deploy a Hugo Site to Production with Git Hooks on Ubuntu 14.04.Linux

How To Deploy a Hugo Site to Production with Git Hooks on Ubuntu 14.04.

Hugo is an open source static site generator. Static site generators build a web page the moment you’re creating or editing new content.

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MEAN & Socket.IO Integration Tutorial.Node.js

MEAN & Socket.IO Integration Tutorial.

One of hottest topic in node.js is building realtime web applications. If you come from a C/C++/Java background, you will be amazed how surprisingly easy

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How to Setup OpenStack CLI Tools.OpenStack

How to Setup OpenStack CLI Tools.

In this tutorial, we’re going to look into installing all the CLI toolsets required to interact with an OpenStack cloud (taking our cloud as an example).

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How To Deploy Django on Nginx, Gunicorn with Postgres.Nginx

How To Deploy Django on Nginx, Gunicorn with Postgres.

Django is a free and open source web application framework, written in Python, which follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern. It is

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How To Set Up Nginx Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu.Nginx

How To Set Up Nginx Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu.

If we have a single server that is used as web server and it has allocated one IP address only, then in order to have more than one website or domain

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Small Dive Into Meteor.JS.Node.js

Small Dive Into Meteor.JS.

If you follow the latest JavaScript hypes, I am sure you have already heard about the awesomeness of meteor.js. If you have not yet, this is your chance.

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How to Setup Remote System Logging with rsyslog on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.Linux

How to Setup Remote System Logging with rsyslog on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

By default, there is an instance of rsyslog that runs inside every new Ubuntu installation. The rsyslog tool takes care of receiving all the log message

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What production is teaching us.

Engineering notes from operating open infrastructure: the failures, design decisions, and upstream work that make open infrastructure better.

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