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How To Configure Periodic TRIM for SSD Storage on Linux Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Periodic TRIM for SSD Storage on Linux Servers

Continuous use of SSDs results in degraded performance if not accounted for and mitigated. The TRIM command is an operation that allows the operating system to propagate information down to the SSD about which blocks of data are no longer in use. This allows the SSD’s internal systems to better manage wear leveling and prepare the device for future writes. Continuous TRIM is possible, but can negatively impact performance. Scheduled, periodic TRIM is a good alternative in most cases.

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How To Configure Tools to Use IPv6 on a Linux VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Tools to Use IPv6 on a Linux VPS

IPv6 is the most recent version of the IP protocol. Its most immediately useful advantage over IPv4 is that it has a much broader address space. In this guide, we will discuss the IPv6 versions of tools and how to configure some common services to take advantage of your IPv6 addresses.

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How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04

Node-RED is a switchboard for the Internet of Things, a visual tool that helps you connect your favorite apps, websites, and hardware together to do new and useful things. Node-RED has a powerful and flexible interface, and a large open source community creating *nodes* to interact with a wide variety of apps and services. In this tutorial, we’ll install Node.js and Node-RED, get an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt, and use Nginx to handle secure connections for Node-RED.

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How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04

Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. Heartbeat is typically used in conjunction with a cluster resource manager (CRM), such as Pacemaker, to achieve a complete HA setup. However, in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a the cloud provider Reserved IP.

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How To Create a Redundant Storage Pool Using GlusterFS on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a Redundant Storage Pool Using GlusterFS on Ubuntu 18.04

GlusterFS is a network-attached storage filesystem that allows you to pool computing or storage resources of multiple machines. In turn, this lets you treat various computers as a single, more powerful unit. In this guide, you will create a redundant clustered storage array. This will provide functionality similar to a mirrored RAID configuration over the network

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