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If you manage a server using FTP, then it is highly likely that at some point you will have edited a file. In FTP, you would have had to download the file to your computer, edit it, and then upload it back to replace the existing file. Although this works, it is rather tedious. Do …

If you answered ‘Yes!’ to either of these questions, then you’re in the right place. Matomo is a free and open source web analytics platform that gives you insights into your website’s visitors, behavior, and conversions. In this post, we will show you how to host Matomo analytics on a RunCloud server and enjoy the …

Are you old enough to remember these early website designs of Amazon and Google from 1997? You don’t have to go anywhere near that far back in time, though, to notice that websites today have become increasingly complex, demanding far more functionality and accessibility. Today, professionally designed websites are able to deliver powerful, robust experiences, …

Akamai, the global leader in content delivery network and cloud services, has recently acquired Linode, one of the oldest and most trusted cloud server providers in the market. Linode has been offering simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions to millions of customers since 2003. If you are looking for a reliable and cost-effective way …

Whether you’ve previously heard of uptime monitoring or not, it’s something any website owner needs to explore. Assuming you’re a website owner, you’ll almost certainly have found yourself in a situation where you’ve had to rush to update your site and address a bug that needed to be fixed ASAP. No matter how much testing …

According to a recent report by SiteLock, on average, websites are attacked 94 times a day, and are visited by bots 372 times a day. While many of these bots are nothing to worry about, a percentage of them will be malicious, hunting out vulnerabilities, which is why it’s vital to remain vigilant where your …

One of the most valuable benefits of having computers take charge of many aspects of our lives is the way they can complete tasks over and over again, following a defined schedule without complaint. How do they do this? The answer is something called “cron jobs”. In this post, you’ll learn exactly what a cron …

Are you working on a bash script that needs to be executed without any human inputs? Do your scripts fail when the process of copying files encounters a problem? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions then you’re in the right place. In this post, we will take a quick look at the …

Are you using Linux to manage your servers? Do you find yourself frequently copying the output on the terminal and pasting it into different bash commands? If you answered “Yes”, then you should definitely start using the Pipes and xargs command in Linux. These are extremely helpful Linux utilities that will save you time and …