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The timezone on a Linux server is set with timedatectl set-timezone, and accurate time comes from NTP synchronisation via systemd-timesyncd or chrony. Correct time is critical for logs, TLS certificates, cron jobs and databases. Here is the full setup.

The fastest way to deploy OpenVPN is a ready-made script: it installs the packages, creates a certificate authority, generates the server config and the first client .ovpn profile. Below are both the automatic route and the manual easy-rsa setup, so...

A database backup is what saves a project after a disk failure, an accidental DROP TABLE or a broken migration. No hosting provider takes your own responsibility for backups away: keep copies and test that they restore. Below are working...

LEMP is the combination of Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP — the standard environment for PHP sites (WordPress, Laravel, custom projects). Below is a ready sequence of commands for Ubuntu 22.04/24.04. The whole process takes 10–15 minutes.

To find out what is loading a Linux server, five commands are enough: top or htop for the processor, free for memory, df and du for the disk. Below is how to use them and how to read the numbers....

By default Windows Server allows only two administrative RDP sessions at a time. For more users to work on the server simultaneously you need to install the Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) role and buy RDS CAL licences. Below is...

An Nginx reverse proxy accepts requests on ports 80 and 443 and forwards them to an application on a local port (for example 127.0.0.1:3000), adding the headers the backend needs. That gives you a single entry point, HTTPS and load...

There are two ways to assign a static IP on Windows Server: through the “Network Connections” graphical interface or with the PowerShell command New-NetIPAddress. On a remote server reached over RDP, PowerShell is safer — it sets the address and...