Initial Server Setup

How To Host a Website with Caddy on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website with Caddy on Ubuntu 16.04

[Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) is a web server that was created with ease of use in mind. It’s become a common choice for developers who want to quickly run a website without working out difficult configuration files. In this tutorial, you will build and install Caddy from source, configure it using a `Caddyfile`, install Caddy plugins, and learn how to update your installation of Caddy when a new version is released.

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Initial Server Setup with Debian 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Server Setup with Debian 7

This tutorial covers how to login with root, how to change the root password, how to create a new user, and how to give the new user root privileges. It’s written for Debian 7.

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How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Rocky Linux 9

Server automation now plays an essential role in systems administration, due to the disposable nature of modern application environments. Ansible offers an architecture that doesn’t require special software to be installed on nodes. It also provides a robust set of features and built-in modules which facilitate writing automation scripts.

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Initial Server Setup with Debian 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Server Setup with Debian 8

When you first create a new Debian 8 server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup. This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give you a solid foundation for subsequent actions.

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Recommended Steps For New FreeBSD 12.0 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Recommended Steps For New FreeBSD 12.0 Servers

When setting up a new FreeBSD server, there are a number of optional steps you can take to get your server into a more production-friendly state. In this guide, we will go over some of the most common examples. We will cover how to create a firewall that denies most traffic, ensure that your server’s time zone accurately reflects its location, and set up NTP polling to keep the server’s time accurate. Finally, we will demonstrate how to add some extra swap space to your server.

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How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Ubuntu 18.04

Ansible offers a simple architecture that doesn’t require special software to be installed on nodes. It also provides a robust set of features and built-in modules which facilitate writing automation scripts. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our Initial Server Setup Guide for Ubuntu 18.04 servers.

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Initial Server Setup with Debian 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Initial Server Setup with Debian 9

When you first create a new Debian 9 server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup. This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give you a solid foundation for subsequent…

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How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Ubuntu 20.04

Ansible offers a simple architecture that doesn’t require special software to be installed on nodes. It also provides a robust set of features and built-in modules which facilitate writing automation scripts. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our Initial Server Setup Guide for Ubuntu 20.04 servers.

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