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Best Ways to Improve Core Web Vitals

February 20, 2023 by Jeff Wilson

Optimizing website performance is essential for businesses today. In the digital age, visitors expect fast-loading websites with smooth scrolling and seamless transitions. Google has recently introduced the Core Web Vitals metric to measure performance.

This metric determines the page experience score, which affects the website’s ranking on the search engine result page. In this article, we will discuss Core Web Vitals, why website performance optimization is important, and how to improve Core Web Vitals.

How to Fix 502 Bad Gateway Error?

February 13, 2023 by Jeff Wilson

Whether you’re visiting or running a website, you have likely run into the dreaded “502 Bad Gateway” error and possibly even wondered if there are ways to get around these issues or fix the error entirely. Depending on whether you are a visitor or a website owner, there may be several things you can try to resolve this issue. To begin, we need to understand what causes this error and the many possible ways to troubleshoot it before trying to fix the 502 Bad Gateway Error.

Drupal vs WordPress: What is the Difference?

February 7, 2023February 6, 2023 by Jeff Wilson

Think of a content management system (CMS) as an engine that brings your website to life. It allows you to build and publish your content without having to code it all from the ground up. In fact, certain content management systems won’t require any coding knowledge, such as HTML and CSS.

Drupal and WordPress are two of the most popular content management systems on the market. Each can help you create engaging content, customize your site’s look and feel, and in turn, help you grow your audience.

Top 10 Docker Commands You Should Know

January 9, 2023 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we are going to show you the ten most used Docker commands you should know.

Docker is an open-source platform service used for running applications in isolated environments called containers. The containers have their own structure, with encapsulated services that can not interfere with the work of the main server. In this tutorial, we are going to use the Ubuntu 22.04 OS, but you can choose any Linux distro you want.

First, we will install the docker and then show you the ten most used docker commands. Let’s get started!

Understanding the Linux Directory Structure

December 28, 2022December 12, 2022 by Jeff Wilson

In this blog post, we are going to explain the Linux Directory Structure and how everything is connected in Linux operating system.

Linux is a very complex system and requires an efficient way to start, stop and maintain the system. Everything in Linux is a file, and even the directories count as files. There are three types of files in the Linux system: general files, directory files, and device files.

In the next paragraphs, we are going to explain the types of files and the most important directories such as root, bin, cdrom, boot, dev, etc, home, lib, mnt, tmp and many more. Let’s get started!

10 Useful mysqladmin Commands for Database Administration

December 28, 2022November 14, 2022 by Jeff Wilson

In this blog post, we will show you ten useful mysqladmin commands for database administration.

Mysqladmin is a client for performing administrative operations. We can use this for checking the server’s configuration, creating and removing databases, users, tables, rows, and many more in MySQL. MySQL is a relational database management system used worldwide where the information is stored in tables. There are many database types offered by MySQL such as int, bigint, float,tinyint, smallint, mediumint and many more.

In this tutorial, first, we will install MySQL on the latest Ubuntu 22.04, then show you the mysqladmin commands. Let’s get started!

History of the Internet

January 24, 2023November 9, 2022 by Jeff Wilson

Take a step back and imagine a world with no Internet. No social media, no websites, no e-commerce, or online chat. The world would be a little more dull for most of us.

How to Install Fail2ban on Ubuntu 22.04

December 5, 2022August 29, 2022 by Jeff Wilson

Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention tool that protects computers from brute force and other attacks by closely monitoring the log files. The tool would then ban the suspicious IP addresses based on the predefined number of failed login attempts to stop the attacks. Fail2Ban uses jails to monitor log files for authentication failures and other entries that can be considered suspicious activities.

It can be configured to send an email and/or ban the attacker’s IP address for a pre-defined length of time. After the ban period is over, the attacking IP address will be automatically unbanned. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Fail2ban on Ubuntu 22.04.

How to Install JasperReports on Ubuntu 20.04

December 5, 2022June 20, 2022 by Jeff Wilson

JasperReports is an open-source Java reporting tool, a stand-alone and embeddable reporting server. JasperReports is a Java class library, Java developers who need to add reporting capabilities to their applications use this tool. It provides reporting and analytics and is capable of generating professional reports including images, charts, and graphs. Some of the major JasperReports features include:

Exporting Capabilities
Multiple Datasources
Multiple Ways to Present Data
Multiple Ways to Supply Data
Subreports
Watermarks

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install the Jasper Reports server on Ubuntu 20.04.

10 Useful YUM Commands in Linux

October 5, 2022June 15, 2022 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial we are going to show you the most used 10 YUM commands in Linux. YUM is a command-line package management system that is used on CentOS and AlmaLinux.

YUM (shortcat for “Yellowdog Updater Modified“) package manager is responsible for managing the packages from the YUM repositories located on the server at /etc/yum.repos.d/. In this tutorial we are going to install, remove, update software packages with real example.

The YUM command examples will be explained on the CentOS 7 OS. Let’s get started!