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How To Create a Riak Cluster on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a Riak Cluster on an Ubuntu VPS

This tutorial covers how to set up a Riak Cluster on Ubuntu VPS instances. Riak is a distributed database that offers large performance and redundancy benefits in comparison to traditional relational databases. Riak can be used to create cluster groups that can split up the workload and risk of data storage and access between multiple machines.

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How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 14.04

The Apache web server is the most popular way to serve content on the web. If you need to communicate with your site visitors over a secured connection, setting up a TLS or SSL certificate will enable you to encrypt traffic. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to create a self-signed SSL certificate on Ubuntu 14.04 and use it with Apache to encrypt traffic.

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How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7

SSL is a web protocol used to encrypt a site’s information and create a more secure connection. The certificate system also assists users in verifying the identity of the sites that they are connecting with. In this guide, we will show you how to set up a self-signed SSL certificate for use with an Apache web server on a CentOS 7 VPS.

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How To Create Temporary and Permanent Redirects with Apache — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create Temporary and Permanent Redirects with Apache

HTTP redirection is a way to point one domain or address to another. There are a few different kinds of redirects (301 Moved Permanently and 302 Found), each of which mean something different to the client browser. You can create a redirect in Apache by adding `Redirect /oldlocation http://www.example.com/newlocation` to the virtual host entry in the server configuration file. This guide will cover a more in depth explanation of how to implement each kind of redirect in Apache.

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