This is a list of frequently asked questions about DigitalOcean's Write for DOnations program.

Suricata is a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tool that uses sets of community created and user defined signatures (also referred to as rules) to examine and process network traffic. Suricata can generate log events...

SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with a Debian server, chances are you will spend most of your time in a terminal session connected to your s...

When you first create a new Debian 11 server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup. This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give yo...

This tutorial will get your Ubuntu 20.04 server set up with a Python 3 programming environment. Programming on a server has many advantages and supports collaboration across development projects. The general principle...

The value of the CSS display property affects the box model, the mechanism that determines how elements interact with one another on a page. Using this property, you can efficiently control how an element interacts wi...

phpMyAdmin is an application that allows users to interact with MySQL databases through a web interface. This tutorial covers the process of installing and securing phpMyAdmin on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In this guide, we will be setting up a simple Python application using the Flask microframework on Ubuntu 18.04. The bulk of this article will be about how to set up the uWSGI application server to launch the applicat...

In this tutorial, we’ll go through how to make a simple command-line calculator program in Python 3. We’ll be using math operators, variables, conditional statements, functions, and take in user input to make our calc...

Plausible Analytics is an open-source, self-hosted web analytics application written in Elixir. It focuses on being simple, and privacy-focused. In this tutorial you will install the Plausible app and a few helper ser...

A Go module commonly consists of one project or library and contains a collection of Go packages that are then released together. With Go modules, you can put code where you want and specify dependencies for each modu...

In this tutorial, you'll install and get started with Composer on an Ubuntu 18.04 system.

Node.js is an open source JavaScript runtime environment for easily building server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications can be run at the command line but this guide focuses on running them as a ser...

In this guide, you'll set up a VNC server on an Ubuntu 18.04 server and connect to it securely through an SSH tunnel.

One of the main benefits of Infrastructure as Code is reusing parts of the defined infrastructure. In this tutorial, we'll consider some of the ways of defining and reusing code in Terraform projects. You'll reference...

With MongoDB Compass, you can access most of the features the MongoDB database engine offers through an intuitive visual display. You can glance through the databases, collections, and individual documents, interactiv...

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...

Gatsby is a React framework that allows you to create static and serverless JavaScript apps. In this tutorial, you will install the Gatsby Starter default template, modify metadata in the Gatsby config file, run the d...

In this guide, you will set up an ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) Django app on Ubuntu 20.04. You'll set up a PostgreSQL database, configure a Gunicorn application server paired with Uvicorn (an ASGI impl...

Streams are an efficient way to handle files in Node.js. In this tutorial, you'll create a command-line program, and then use it with streams to read, write, copy, and transform files.