Another Linux-specific web hosting control panel, DirectAdmin supports one of the broadest ranges of Linux distributions including the popular Ubuntu and RedHat plus CentOS, FreeDSB and CloudLinux. You can even manage Debian and Fedora Core with a DirectAdmin control panel.…
Exim is a free, open-source MTA produced at Cambridge University, and it is popular with users of Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems thanks to its customizability and helpful community. Exim’s Advantages At the moment, Exim is the standard mail…
Anyone managing web hosting servers will understand how important it is to be able to easily manage your web hosting services – monitoring infrastructure and managing the platform. There are many different ways to perform these management and monitoring functions,…
.htaccess is a system file with certain Apache web server configuration instructions. It provides ability to manage such configuration on the level of specific directory. There is a necessity of .htaccess usage when you don’t have access to the main…
It’s fair to say that people who like open source software won’t have much love for Microsoft’s commercial products. However, the reverse is also true – people who prefer commercial software are unlikely to try open source tools for the…
There are a lot of very popular hosting control panels but they do not all offer efficient enterprise support. If you’re working in an enterprise web hosting environment you might want to have a look at ISPconfig, however. A lot…
Just like all other content management systems Joomla! is a platform that requires regular maintenance, updates and non-stop protection against security attacks. It’s just the nature of today’s websites. Thankfully the Plesk Joomla! Toolkit makes the process of keeping your…
If you hear mention of k8s or kube then what’s being talked about is Kubernetes, a portable, open-source container orchestration platform that was designed by Google and based on their Borg system. It can automate many of the manual processes…
Linux containers rest on a technology that was created from some essential parts of the Linux kernel, and their combined function is to package and isolate an application with just its dependencies. There have been technologies like this before, but…
A load balancer distributes network or application traffic evenly between the servers in a cluster so that no single system gets swamped by the demands of incoming requests. Among load balancing goals there are optimization of the resources usage, throughput…
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