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Trello Trello is an organization tool that is famous for it's simplicity. You can easily create small notes (aka cards) on boards to keep a track of ideas or process of your content. You can keep this as a record of your progress of content that is in
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Like most of the World, I'm too staying at Home for the greater good #Lockdown has made me crazy and I'm doing things I've been bailing on as Low-Priority for a long time. One of those included a Raspberry Pi AQI monitor cum weather
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MTA (or Mail Transport Agent) can prove helpful if You're hosting Your own server and do not want to pay someone for Your emails. If Properly configured, An MTA can be a good candidate for email transport at small scale for applications like WordPress which only really send
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Learn how to set up the leading CMS platform WordPress on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with LEMP stack.
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Another new Ubuntu LTS release goes public today! Hooray... On April 23, 2020 Ubuntu version 20.04 goes live (if everything goes as plan) It will be available on most cloud providers to be deployed in new cloud Instances almost immediately. However, those of us running the older LTS (18.
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I hate to admit it but I've been a long time (almost 2 Years) user of krypt.co and krssh service to manage my SSH logins for almost everything. My old Samsung Galaxy S5 was just fine to keep the android app running and it always found it&
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If You're a self-hosting your website, One particular thing that You'd want to take care of is to keep the system up-to-date. The process requires some discipline and planning but most of it can be automated. Ubuntu also offers a package called unattended-upgrades which automatically installs
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We at tekduke just love nginx so much. Generally, it is our default web server. Although we use traefik for some parts of our infrastructure, mostly we are running the open source nginx on our production servers as a reverse proxy or web-server. It comes in handy to know how
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Admit it, we've all been there! We spin up a new VPS and find out that the server was earlier being used by someone else who didn't deal with their mess properly and now all those internet zombies are now trying to find directories on your
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Let's take a quick rundown of most commonly used abbreviations in the tech universe. 1. A: Address Record (Alt: Alias Record) (DNS Record) 2. AAAA: IPv6 Address Record (DNS Record) 3. ACK: Acknowledge 4. API: Application Programming Interface 5. AUX: Auxillary 6. BGP: Border Gateway Protocol 7. BNC:
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UFW (aka Uncomplicated Fire Wall) is a software firewall shipped with Ubuntu. It is really simple to configure yet equally powerful in terms of blocking attacks directed to various ports on your server. It usually comes disabled by default. In this article, we will understand how to configure some basic
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Music streaming has changed a lot from the days when my father was a kid to the days when I've become an adult. It takes me down a nostalgia trip to discuss our collective memories with music and the way it all changed. Then: The era of Radio,