Vesta Control Panel is a simple and easy to use open source web hosting control panel. It has a clean interface and lots of useful features that will help you to host your website on your VPS. It can be installed on RHEL 5, RHEL 6, CentOS 5, CentOS 6, Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04 , …
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Open Source Web Hosting Control Panels
Most website owners use control panels for website management. A control panel facilitates the server administration and allows the users to manage multiple websites. To host a simple website, all you need is a server and a web hosting control panel. There are premium control panels like WHM/cPanel and DirectAdmin which are very powerful but …
How to change default SSH port on Linux
Changing the default SSH port from the default 22 is one of the things you should do to secure your server. The main benefit of changing the default port is to avoid being scanned by casual port scans. Changing the default port to a random number get rid of some dangerous brute-force attacks. Login Via …
How to generate a strong password from the command line
A strong password is the most important way to keep your server secure. A strong password should be comprised of at least 14 characters including lower case and upper case alphabetic characters, numbers and symbols and should never be based on a dictionary word. The longer the password the harder it is to guess. There …
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First Steps after getting your Ubuntu VPS
Connecting to your VPS The first step after getting your VPS is to connect to it. There are different ways to connect to your VPS depending on your OS. For Windows users, you can connect to your VPS using PuTYY . For Linux and Mac users, you can connect using the terminal Update your server. …
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