This tutorial will guide you through installing Anaconda on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. Designed for data science and machine learning workflows, Anaconda is an open-source package manager, environment manager, and distri...

The Apache HTTP server is the most widely-used web server in the world. It provides many powerful features, including dynamically loadable modules, robust media support, and extensive integration with other popular s...

This tutorial will walk you through installing and configuring Git on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. Version control systems help you share and collaborate on software development projects. Git is one of the most popular ver...

PostgreSQL, or Postgres, is a relational database management system that provides an implementation of the SQL querying language. This quickstart guide demonstrates how to install Postgres on an Ubuntu 20.04 server. I...

Python is a flexible and versatile programming language, with strengths in scripting, automation, data analysis, machine learning, and back-end development. This quickstart tutorial will walk you through installing P...

R is an open-source programming language that specializes in statistical computing and graphics. In this tutorial, we will install R on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.

This guide will show you how to create a new user with sudo access on Ubuntu 18.04, without having to modify your server's /etc/sudoers file.

Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and highest-traffic sites on the internet. In this guide, we'll explain how to install Nginx on your Ubuntu ...

This tutorial will guide you through setting up multiple domains and websites using Apache virtual hosts on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. During this process, you’ll learn how to serve different content to different visitor...

The sudo command provides system administrations with a way to grant administrator privileges — ordinarily only available to the root user — to normal users. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a new user wi...

Contributing to open-source software is not only a way to share your skill in a particular language or tech stack, it can be a rewarding practice to share your engineering knowledge and collaborate with the developer ...

In this quickstart guide, we’ll install Composer on an Ubuntu 20.04 server.

MySQL is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It implements the relational model and uses SQL (Structured Query Langu...

Setting your server's clock and timezone properly is essential in ensuring the healthy operation of distributed systems and maintaining accurate log timestamps. This tutorial will show you how to configure NTP time sy...

In this tutorial, you will deploy a static website with DigitalOcean App Platform from a GitHub repository. If you don't have a static site, you can use our sample site to learn how App Platform works.

Interested in Node.js but not sure where to start with Docker? This tutorial will walk you through the first step: building an image for a Node.js application and creating a container from it. We will also walk you th...

Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, is a connection system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical desktop environment on a remote server. In this quickstart tutorial, you'll set up ...

This tutorial will walk you through installing Python and setting up a programming environment on an Ubuntu 20.04 server quickly.

The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic PHP websites and web apps. This guide includes the steps to set up ...

This guide will show you how to create a new user with sudo access on CentOS 8, without having to modify your server's /etc/sudoers file.