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How to Install VirtualBox on CentOS 6.3 x64

Posted on July 20, 2014June 9, 2016 by

Introduction Virtual Box developed by oracle is a powerful cross-platform virtualization software. These are the steps to follow for installation of VirtualBox on CentOS. Installation The commands to install VirtualBox are as follows: yum -y groupinstall Desktop yum -y install qt qt-devel SDL-devel tigervnc-server gcc make kernel-devel export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64rpm -ivh http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.10/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.10_84104_el6-1.x86_64.rpm /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup…

How to Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux

Posted on July 16, 2014August 4, 2016 by

Initial Set Up Minecraft server set up on a Linus distribution (Ubuntu 12.04 in this case) is quite easier than you think. Make sure you have at least 2GB RAM for your server. In this tutorial, we will be covering the setup of minecraft server on Ubuntu using command line tool. Connect to the…

How to Use Google’s SMTP Server

Posted on July 15, 2014June 15, 2016 by

Introduction Being a system admin you have to manage your outgoing mail server somewhere in your server/vps however, Google has made its SMTP service for free which can be used to send mails from any network for any email address. With Google’s portable SMTP server, you can configure settings of any program you wish to send…

How to Install Grails on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

Posted on July 1, 2014October 6, 2016 by

Introduction Grails is an open source web application framework meant to be highly productive that can provide stand-alone development environment for the developer. Grails uses the Groovy programming language which is based on Java. you will be installing Grails on Ubuntu 12.04 VPS. Install JDK You have to install JDK before starting to work…

How to Install Django

Posted on June 25, 2014June 15, 2016 by

Introduction Django is a free and open source high-level Python web framework written in Python programming language that helps developers build complex web applications easily and quickly.With the help of Django Developers can built web application more quickly with less code and in easy manner. Initial Set Up Before using Django we have to install…

How to Optimize Nginx Configuration

Posted on June 20, 2014August 8, 2016 by

Nginx is a free and open-source, high performance web server software used for its stability, simplicity in configuration which uses low resource consumption. As with any other server or software, Nginx also needs fine tuning for attaining better performance. This tutorial will cover the basics of optimizing an nginx configuration. System Pre-Requisites A droplet with…

How to Monitor System Authentication Logs on Ubuntu

Posted on June 5, 2014June 9, 2016 by

Being the system administrator one should be able to authenticate logs and monitor users and groups activities. you will learn more about the basic concepts behind user management, monitoring and authentication logging. Monitoring System Logins After the server is setup and all the users are configured one should need to have a monitoring component…