A glossary of technical terms for the DigitalOcean community.

When dealing with any kind of important data, it is essential that you implement a backup scheme. There are many different ways to back up data on a VPS. In this guide, we will discuss some ways that you can backup yo...

Luckily there is a way to mount your VPS file system to your local computer so you can make changes on the fly and treat your droplet as local storage.

The Ubuntu operating system’s latest Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 22.04 (Focal Fossa), was released on April 21, 2020. This guide will explain how to upgrade an Ubuntu system of version 20.04 or later to Ub...

In this guide, we’ll focus on setting up SSH keys for an Ubuntu 22.04 installation. SSH keys provide a secure way of logging into your server and are recommended for all users.

One way to guard against out-of-memory errors in applications is to add some swap space to your server. In this guide, we will cover how to add a swap file to an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

Hello, I want a virtual box on a Linux server with 500 gb of storage, 16 or 32 gb of ram and 4 cpus. how much will be the cost for a month and how much is the cost per hour if I choose to use it 6 hours a day. I will ...

SSH-key-based authentication provides a more secure alternative to password-based authentication. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to set up SSH key-based authentication on an Ubuntu 18.04 installation.

SSH-key-based authentication provides a more secure alternative to password-based authentication. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to set up SSH-key-based authentication on a CentOS 7 installation.

Most modern Unix-like operating system, rely on a centralized package management system for finding and installing software. This guide serves as a quick reference for the fundamentals of finding, installing, and upgr...

I’ve seen this being asked quite a bit, so I’ve decided to write this answer outlining a few ways how to pass environment variables to a Docker container. Hope that this is helpful! If you have any questions post the ...

Package management software allows you to easily control the software on your servers. These tools allow you to install, remove, update, and configure thousands of packages through a unified interface. In this guide, ...

Process management is an essential skill when using any computer system. This is especially true when administrating a server environment. This article will introduce some powerful tools that can be used to manage pro...

Introduction Adding and removing users on a Linux system is one of the most important system administration tasks to familiarize yourself with. When you create a new system, you are often only given access to the root...

FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a network protocol that was once widely used for moving files between a client and server. It has since been replaced by faster, more secure, and more convenient ways of deliv...

When you first start using a fresh Linux server, adding and removing users is one of the most basic tasks that you should know how to do. In this guide, we will cover how to create user accounts, assign sudo privilege...

Homebrew is a package manager that lets you install free and open-source software using your terminal. In this tutorial you’ll install and use Homebrew on Linux.

Hello, so my website was working just like about 1h ago, then I get clients spamming me that nothing is working. So I try to go to my site and I see this message 🧨 fwrite(): write of 2268 bytes failed with errno=28 n...

Quotas are used to limit the amount of disk space a user or group can use on a filesystem. Without such limits, a user could fill up the machine’s disk and cause problems for other users and services. In this tutorial...

Rsync is a tool for intelligently syncing local and remote directories. In this article we will explore the basic usage of this utility to copy files from directory to directory and from system to system.