Dave Rankin
Technical Editor @ DigitalOcean
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- CSS
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- Linux
- Perl
- PHP
- Python
- SQL
Contributions
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Tutorial
How To Automate Elixir-Phoenix Deployment with Distillery and edeliver on Ubuntu 16.04
Elixir is a functional programming language that's popular for its focus on developer productivity and ease of writing highly concurrent and scalable applications, while Phoenix is a web framework built on Elixir to a... -
Webinar Series: Getting Started with Containers
This article supplements the first session, Getting Started with Containers, in a six-part webinar series on Deploying & Managing Containerized Workloads in the Cloud. By the end of this tutorial, you will have instal... -
Tutorial
How to Install and Secure Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial you will install Grafana and secure it with an SSL certificate and an Nginx reverse proxy, then you'll modify Grafana's default settings for even tighter security. -
Webinar Series: Building Containerized Applications
In this tutorial, you will use a sample web application based on Node.js and MongoDB to build a Docker image from a Dockerfile, you will create a custom network that allows your Docker containers to communicate, and y... -
Tutorial
How To Install Prometheus on Ubuntu 16.04
Prometheus is a powerful, open-source monitoring system that collects metrics from your services and stores them in a time-series database. This tutorial teaches you how to install, configure, and secure Prometheus a... -
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How to Install Snipe-IT on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, you will download, install, and configure Snipe-IT, a free and open-source application designed specifically for IT asset management. Then you will create an admin user account to log into Snipe-IT f... -
Tutorial
How to Block Advertisements at the DNS Level Using Pi-hole and OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, you will install and configur OpenVPN and Pi-hole to act as your own private, network-wide, DNS-based, ad-blocking filter for all of the devices connected to your network. -
Tutorial
How To Install phpIPAM on Ubuntu 16.04
phpIPAM is a dedicated tool for IP address management that provides automatic ping scans, status reports (so you can see which of your hosts are up and which are down), and email notifications. In this tutorial, you w... -
Tutorial
How to Benchmark a Website with Firefox, Siege, and Sproxy On Ubuntu 16.04
Siege is a configurable benchmarking and testing tool that, when combined with Sproxy and Firefox, provides a complete platform for benchmarking websites, finding bottlenecks, and planning meaningful network, server, ... -
Tutorial
How to Set Up Shiny Server on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, you'll install and configure Shiny and the open-source version of Shiny Server on a server running Ubuntu 16.04, secure the connection to the Shiny server using a Let's Encrypt digital certificate an... -
Series: DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls
How To Secure Web Server Infrastructure With DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls Using Doctl
Even though you can configure Cloud Firewalls through the DigitalOcean Control Panel, when you have a lot of Droplets to manage, need to script out a process, or just prefer working from the terminal, a command-line i... -
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Debian 8
After working through this tutorial, you'll have a Linux desktop that you can connect to remotely using X2Go and that includes exactly the same utilities you would get by installing Debian XFCE locally. -
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How to Set Up an Object Storage Server Using Minio on Ubuntu 16.04
Minio is an open source object storage server that stores unstructured data like photos, videos, virtual machine images, containers, and log files as objects. This tutorial goes through installing and using Mino's web...