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How To Configure Port Knocking Using Only Iptables on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Port Knocking Using Only Iptables on an Ubuntu VPS

Port knocking is a method of hiding services behind a firewall until a specific sequence of network activity occurs. After detecting this, the firewall is dynamically reconfigured to expose the requested service for the client who completed the specific sequence of activity. In this article, we will discuss how to implement a port knocking mechanism on an Ubuntu VPS using only the tools available within the iptables package.

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How To Configure SSH Key-Based Authentication on a FreeBSD Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure SSH Key-Based Authentication on a FreeBSD Server

SSH, or secure shell, is a network protocol that provides a secure, encrypted way to communicate with and administer your servers. As SSH is the most common way of working with a FreeBSD server, you will want to familiarize yourself with the different ways that you can authenticate and log in to your server. While there are several ways of logging into a FreeBSD server, this tutorial will focus on setting up and using SSH keys for authentication.

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How To Configure Varnish Cache 4.0 with SSL Termination on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Varnish Cache 4.0 with SSL Termination on Ubuntu 14.04

Varnish Cache is a caching HTTP reverse proxy, or HTTP accelerator, which reduces the time it takes to serve content to a user. In this tutorial, we will cover how to use Varnish Cache 4.0 to improve the performance of your existing web server. We will also show you a way to add HTTPS support to Varnish, with Nginx performing the SSL termination.

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How To Control URLs and Links in Jekyll — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Control URLs and Links in Jekyll

In Part 3 of this series, we look at how Jekyll creates URLs and show how to change the pattern for an individual file or the entire site. Then we look a how to link to pages within our site and stage it for testing.

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How to Create a High Availability Setup with Pacemaker, Corosync and Reserved IPs on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Create a High Availability Setup with Pacemaker, Corosync and Reserved IPs on CentOS 7

Corosync is an open source cluster engine used to implement high availability within applications. This tutorial will demonstrate how to use Corosync and Pacemaker to create a high availability (HA) infrastructure on the cloud provider with CentOS 7 servers and Reserved IPs. To facilitate the process of setting up and managing the cluster nodes, we are going to use PCS, a command line interface that interacts with both Corosync and Pacemaker.

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