Networking and DNS on a server — guides

How to Set Up Nginx as a...

An Nginx reverse proxy accepts requests on ports 80 and 443 and forwards them to an application on...

20 Jan 2026 By Inga Vītola

How to Open a Port in Wi...

There are three ways to open a port in Windows Firewall: the graphical “Inbound Rules” wizard, the netsh...

18 Jan 2026 By Roman Sokolov

How to Open a Port in Li...

The simplest way to open a port in Linux is ufw: sudo ufw allow 443/tcp. For fine-grained control...

16 Jan 2026 By Laura Zariņa

How to Check Open Ports:...

Open ports are checked from two sides: locally, to see which services are listening (ss -tulpn, netstat -tulpn),...

How to Change DNS Server...

To change DNS on a server, first work out what actually controls name resolution: a plain /etc/resolv.conf, systemd-resolved,...

12 Jan 2026 By Edgars Kalējs

DNS Records A, AAAA, CNA...

DNS records connect a domain name to IP addresses and services: A and AAAA point to an IP,...

10 Jan 2026 By Olga Naumova

Static IP on Windows Ser...

There are two ways to assign a static IP on Windows Server: through the “Network Connections” graphical interface...

08 Jan 2026 By Inga Vītola

How to Set a Static IP i...

Subnet calculator (CIDR) Enter an address with a prefix, for example 192.168.1.10/24 — you get the netmask, network...

06 Jan 2026 By Roman Sokolov

Public vs Private IP Add...

A private IP is the address of a device inside your local network (for example 192.168.1.5), while a...

04 Jan 2026 By Laura Zariņa

How to Find Your IP Addr...

To find your local IP address, run ipconfig on Windows or ip addr on Linux. To find your...