Today we’ll be looking at how to install Ruby and RubyGems on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.04. The installation steps listed in this article will work for both versions of Ubuntu, 18.04 LTS and 19.04. A little bit about…
Today we’ll be looking at how to install MongoDB 4.2 on CentOS 7, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.04 A little bit about MongoDB as per their website: MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern…
Today we’ll be going over how to backup your website off-site with git every day. You can use this guide with any service that supports git, we’re focusing on GitHub because it’s reliable, robust and offers a free tier. Start…
Today we’ll look at how to increase the size of a ZFS pool. We’ll do this by adding a new drive to the ZFS pool. ZFS makes this incredibly easy and you can do all this without destroying your data…
You run a task and Nginx throws the following error: upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream This can be truly annoying and at times difficult to pinpoint. To fix this error, create a…
Today we’ll create a new user and grant it access to a single database in MongoDB. Start off by logging into mongodb with your admin/root user mongo -u ‘username’ -p ‘password’ –authenticationDatabase ‘admin’ You’ll land at a prompt like below…
Today we’ll look at how to create a new database in MongoDB. Connect to mongod via the following line, replace your credentials mongo -u ‘username’ -p ‘password’ –authenticationDatabase ‘admin’ If you’re successfully authenticated then you’ll see the following prompt: To…
Has an SSH connection taken too long to return the password prompt? There are two possible fixes to it. There are two possible ways to fix this, First, disable Reverse DNS lookups on SSH connections on the target machine. Edit…
Ran into this rather peculiar error recently while installing Varnish Cache on CentOS 7. Resolving Dependencies –> Running transaction check —> Package varnish-devel.x86_64 0:5.2.1-1.el6 will be installed –> Processing Dependency: varnish = 5.2.1-1.el6 for package: varnish-devel-5.2. 1-1.el6.x86_64 –> Running transaction…
We updated an old server recently and the ProFTP server started throwing this error “530 Login incorrect” and wouldn’t let us in. We looked at the usual culprits, reset passwords, verified directories but nothing seemed to work. We ran ProFTPD…
