Laravel is an open source PHP framework based on the MVC (Model View Controller). Laravel makes it easier for a developer to write web applications. Laravel is considered the best framework to write PHP applications together with other frameworks. Laravel provides a modular packaging system and a dedicated dependency manager. It supports many different relational […]

Introduction Smokeping is an opensource deluxe latency measurement tool that can be used to measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. Using smokeping you can easily keep track of your network with latency monitoring. Smokeping allows you to maintain a longterm data-store and generate statistical charts based on RRDtool’s output. In this […]

Introduction Acct is an open source tool for monitoring a users activity on Linux system. It is a most important task for every system administrator to monitor all the activity by all users and processes that they are running. This will help him to analyze and identify problems of any kind. This tool runs in […]

WordPress is a free and open source platform that offers you ability to create your own website very quickly. This is one of the reasons why it is the number one choice for many people looking to start their own website, albeit for purposes as a personal blog or a way to start marketing a […]

The ELK stack is a combination of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana that is used to monitor logs from central location. The ELK stack is very useful when you are trying to troubleshoot problems with your servers or applications. You can easily search and analyze all of your logs in a single place. The ELK stack […]

A proxy server is a computer which sits between two endpoint devices and acts as an intermediate device. When the client computer requests a resource from the server, it may be a file or a web page, the request is sent to the proxy server first. The proxy server then sends the request to the […]

OpenProject is an open source web based project management system. It is a cross platform application written in Ruby on Rails and AngularJS. OpenProject comes with a lots of collaborative features like project planning, timelines reports, task management and many more. It provides full support for a project to location independent teams. OpenProject is used […]

FirewallD is frontend controller for iptables that is used to filter network traffic. FirewalldD is not an iptables replacement, but it is a wrapper for iptables that is used to manage iptables rules. FirewallD provides an easy way to configure dynamic firewall rules that can be applied instantly without restarting any services. FirewallD provides both […]

Hiawatha is an open source, advanced and secure web server developed by Hugo Leisink since 2002. Hiawatha is a small and lightweight webserver, so it supports older hardware or embedded systems. Hiawatha is a highly secure webserver and has the capability to protect against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks and exploit attempts. Features Supports […]

Quota support is one of the most important features of LXC. When you want to give multiple users access to a LXC container and control disk space then quota’s will be used. You can also use quota’s to manage disk space for web hosting servers. In this post, we will shows you, how to use […]

InfluxDB : InfluxDB is an open-source time series database written in Go that has been built to work best with metrics, events, and analytics. Using InfluxDB, you can easily store system and application performance data and manage any time series data. Grafana : Grafana is an open-source, general purpose dashboard that is used for visualizing […]

Apache is the most popular and widely used web server in the world, so it is important to monitor and debug the performance. Mod_status is an Apache module that is used to monitor Apache web server load and current connections via a web based interface. Mod_status allows a system administrator to monitor performance of Apache […]

To manage a Linux server remotely, the SSH protocol is used. This connects you to the terminal of your linux server. Most of the time your VPS or Dedicated server will come with a password login. Although the SSH protocol is considered secured as the traffic is always encrypted, it is still vulnerable to brute […]

Connecting to your server using SSH is considered very secure as it uses an encrypted connection to send and receive the data. As the SSH service is exposed to internet, it is often attacked by the brute force method. Fail2Ban is a service which scans log files in real time and looks for brute force […]

Introduction LVM stands for logical volume management and it’s software that is used to manage multiple volumes and filesystems. You can easily create, grow and and shrink partitions as required. LVM manages three main components, volume groups, physical volumes and logical volumes. Volume groups are a combination of physical and logical volumes. Physical Volumes correspond […]

Nmap is an open source security scanner and one of the most widely used tools for network exploration, security auditing and scanning. Nmap provides lots of options that can make the utility more powerful. Nmap is used for network audit, security scans and finding open ports on a remote machine. Nmap is also used to […]

Introduction Snappy Ubuntu Core is the perfect system for large-scale cloud container deployments, it is perfect for Docker deployments. It is a very nice, minimal and stripped down version of Ubuntu, specially designed to run securely on autonomous machines. Requirements Arch Linux desktop installed on your system. A non-root user account with sudo privilege set […]

Introduction Tcpdump is one of the most widely used and powerful command line utilities out there that can be used to capture TCP/IP packets transferred over a network. Tcpdump provides various options to save the packet in data file. Tcpdump runs on all Unix-based operating systems and uses libpcap library to capture network traffic. In […]

Introduction Chef is an open source configuration management and automation tool writen in Ruby and Erlang that is used to manage your IT infrastructure from centralized location. As today’s IT infrastructure requirements, managing and administrating server by hand becomes very difficult task for the system administrator. Chef is specially designed to resolve these issues by […]

Introduction Network administrators need to know whats going on with their network, who’s using the bandwidth and how their IT infrastructure is handling the load. It is a very dificult task for every network admin to monitor and debug Linux network related problems. But, it is much easier, if you have right tools at your […]