Linux server administration guides

Cron in Linux — Crontab ...

Cron expression calculator Enter a line of 5 fields: minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week. The description and the...

26 Mar 2026 By Laura Zariņa

Automatic Security Updat...

Automatic security updates in Ubuntu are handled by the unattended-upgrades package: it checks for and installs security patches...

How to Add a Swap File o...

Swap is a file or partition on disk that the system uses as “spare” memory when RAM runs...

19 Mar 2026 By Edgars Kalējs

Find and Kill a Process ...

To end a process in Linux, first find its PID (identifier) with ps or pgrep, then send it...

16 Mar 2026 By Olga Naumova

Check CPU, RAM and Disk ...

To find out what is loading a Linux server, five commands are enough: top or htop for the...

13 Mar 2026 By Inga Vītola

How to Create a User and...

Password generator A cryptographically strong password is generated in your browser and never sent anywhere. Copy Regenerate Length:...

11 Mar 2026 By Roman Sokolov

How to Change the SSH Po...

Moving SSH off the standard port 22 removes most of the automated brute-force noise from your logs. It...

09 Mar 2026 By Laura Zariņa

How to Set Up SSH Keys a...

chmod permission calculator Tick the permissions or enter an octal number — you get the symbolic notation and...

How to Connect to a Serv...

To connect to a server over SSH you need three things: the IP address, a username and a...

05 Mar 2026 By Edgars Kalējs

Initial Ubuntu VPS Setup...

The first things to do on a new Ubuntu VPS are: update the packages, create a separate user...

02 Mar 2026 By Olga Naumova