Backup System Administration Backup files to Google Drive with Rclone Backup files to google drive using rclone. Before we get right to this, let us break down the keywords first. Backup In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere. That way, it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The […] Written by Allan Philip Barku March 13, 2021March 16, 2021
System Administration Website Enabling HTTP/2 in Apache on Ubuntu The experimental SPDY protocol originally developed by Google gave birth to HTTP/2. Enabling HTTP/2 will greatly improve website performance. However, there are some prerequisites to enabling HTTP/2 for your website. In this article, I will show how to get HTTP/2 working on your site running on Apache webserver. Prerequisites to Enabling HTTP/2 HTTPS First, enable […] Written by Clemence Ayekple July 31, 2019July 31, 2019
Security System Administration Quick Tips to Harden SSH on Ubuntu Harden SSH If you work with Secure Shell, you will definitely want to check out the following tips to harden SSH on your ubuntu server. Working as a Ubuntu server administrator, you are more likely to use Secure Shell (SSH) for remote access to the server. As the name suggest SSH is relatively a secure […] Written by Clemence Ayekple May 27, 2019January 5, 2020
System Administration Ubuntu 18.04 Initial Server Setup Ubuntu 18.04 Initial Server Setup for both Beginners and Advanced Users Introduction After installing Ubuntu 18.04 server, there are some steps you should take as part of the initial setup. These steps will increase the server security and give better user experience of your server. The aim of this article is to help you get […] Written by Clemence Ayekple April 4, 2019April 4, 2019
Security System Administration How to install and configure denyhosts on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Intrusion prevention security tool According to the developers of denyhosts script, the script is intended to help thwart SSH server attacks on Linux systems. These attacks are sometimes referred to as dictionary based attacks or brute force attacks. This article will focus on how to install and configure denyhosts on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. A short […] Written by Clemence Ayekple December 27, 2018May 27, 2019
System Administration How to harden Ubuntu 16.04 Server security Ubuntu 16.04 Server Security In this article, we will discuss some server security configurations that are best to protect Ubuntu 16.04 server environment. Secure shared memory First, open the configuration file for editing using the command below: sudo nano /etc/fstab Next, add the following line of code to the bottom of the configuration file: tmpfs […] Written by Clemence Ayekple September 3, 2018September 3, 2018
System Administration How to Securely Set Laravel 5 Files Folders Permission and Ownership Setup Files Folders Permission and Ownership: Deploying a Laravel application to a production environment can be challenging at times. So, in this post, we will discuss how to deal with files folders permission and ownership problems. Every developer wants his/her application to be setup in a secure environment when deploying it to a production server. One […] Written by Clemence Ayekple September 3, 2018September 3, 2018
System Administration Troubleshooting Mod_evasive Configuration with Apache on Ubuntu Server 16.04 Introduction: Mod_evasive Mod_evasive helps protect against attacks like DoS, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) and brute force attacks on Apache web server. As the name suggests mod_evasive provide evasive action in the event of attacks and reports malicious activities via email and syslog. Moreover, it also monitors the incoming traffic to the Apache web server […] Written by Clemence Ayekple June 11, 2018April 5, 2019
System Administration How to Set or Change System Hostname in Linux If you’ve worked as a system admin for any length of time, you’ve probably run into a situation where you have to change the hostnames on your server to match some corporate naming convention, but you can’t have downtime either. So the question is how do you change the hostname without rebooting the server? Luckily, for […] Written by Clemence Ayekple May 15, 2018September 24, 2018
System Administration How To Set Up mod_rewrite for Apache on Ubuntu Introduction In this tutorial, we learn how to use mod_rewrite module to manage URL rewrites using Apache2. The module allows us to rewrite URLs in a fashionable, that is converting URLs to human-readable paths. Just think of the last time you visited a blog site to read an article, looking for that particular article to […] Written by Clemence Ayekple May 14, 2018May 14, 2018
