More tools can be found in this link https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html Need to monitor Linux server performance? Try these built-in commands and a few add-on tools. Most distributions come with tons of Linux monitoring tools. These tools provide metrics which can be used to get information about system activities. You can use these tools to find the … More Linux System Monitoring Tools For SysAdmin.

With the increasing number of data breaches, and the ever tighter regulation surrounding data security – it’s now more important than ever to ensure you securely erase old data.  Physical destruction of hard drives is widely acknowledged as the most secure method, but isn’t always possible.  If, like us, you use cloud servers, you don’t … More Securely erase files and folders on CentOS 7

UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) was originally released for Ubuntu as a simple way to manage netfilter rules.  It makes managing your Linux server firewall extremely easy and is now also available for CentOS. How to setup UFW First, ensure you’ve enabled the EPEL repo. Install the UFW package using yum: [user@server] sudo yum -y install ufw Check … More Setup UFW on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will be outlining a handy way of getting HTTPS enabled on all of your domains by using SSL’s to provide the first step in that process. Domains secured with SSL’s are needed more often every day. If you don’t yet have an SSL on your site to encrypt your data passing … More How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 7

NVMe (Non-volatile memory express) is the latest way to attach storage to a computer.  Rather than using the IDE or SATA connectors of previous drives, it connects directly to PCI Express to allow for faster access. Our history of storage Our first servers, back in 1999, used IDE connectors to connect to our hard drives.  These … More NVMe vs SSD vs HDD

Even if you have sufficient memory in your server, it’s still a good idea to have a swap file.  In order to reduce disk IO, many cloud providers don’t include one as standard – so you may need to add your own. If you need a server to try this out on, we recommend our friends at Digital … More Create a Swap file on CentOS/RHEL Linux

Information Technology Acronyms A ‘short’ list of Acronyms I have come across since working in IT. This isn’t a full list any any stretch of imagination. ACL Access Control List AP Access Point ADFS Active Directory Federation Service ARP Address Resolution Protocol AES Advanced Encryption Standard APT Advanced Persistent Threat ATP Advanced Threat Protection AV … More Acronyms in the world of Information Technology