Networking

How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 20.04

X2Go provides a working “cloud desktop,” complete with all the advantages of an always-online, remotely-accessible, easily-scalable computing system with a very fast network. It is also more responsive and more secure than many VNC solutions. In this tutorial, you’ll use X2Go to create a Debian 10 XFCE desktop environment that you can access remotely. This “cloud desktop” will include the exact same utilities that you would obtain had you installed Ubuntu 20.04 and XFCE on your local machine.

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How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 14.04

OpenVPN is a full-featured open source Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations. In this tutorial, we’ll set up an OpenVPN server on a Droplet and then configure access to it from Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. This tutorial will keep the installation and configuration steps as simple as possible for these setups.

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How To Use IPRoute2 Tools to Manage Network Configuration on a Linux VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use IPRoute2 Tools to Manage Network Configuration on a Linux VPS

The IPRoute2 suite of tools was created to replace an aging and patchwork set of utilities for managing network interfaces, addresses, routing, etc. In this guide, we will discuss some of the basics of how to use the iproute2 set of tools, and how you can transition from your normal way of querying and manipulating network resources.

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How To Create a High Availability HAProxy Setup with Corosync, Pacemaker, and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04 — Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High Availability HAProxy Setup with Corosync, Pacemaker, and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial will show you how to create a High Availability HAProxy load balancer setup on the cloud provider, with the support of a Floating IP and the Corosync/Pacemaker cluster stack. The HAProxy load balancers will each be configured to split traffic between two backend application servers. If the primary load balancer goes down, the Floating IP will be moved to the secondary load balancer automatically, allowing service to resume.

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