Ubuntu 20.04

How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Ubuntu 20.04

Proxy servers are a useful way of caching or obfuscating web traffic. This means that web requests can be served from different inbound or outbound addresses than they appear to be, by offloading the connection to intermediaries. For regular end users, this usually means allowing you to make web requests from a different IP address than your own. In this tutorial, you will be installing and configuring Squid to support a number of popular proxy protocols on a Ubuntu 20.04 server.

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How To Set Up vsftpd for a User's Directory on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up vsftpd for a User’s Directory on Ubuntu 20.04

FTP, which is short for File Transfer Protocol, is a network protocol that was once widely used for moving files between a client and server. vsftpd, very secure FTP daemon, is an FTP server for many Unix-like systems, including Linux. In this tutorial, you’ll configure vsftpd to allow a user to upload files to their home directory using FTP with login credentials secured by SSL/TLS. You’ll also connect your server using FileZilla, an open-source FTP client, to test the TLS encryption.

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How To Use the LAMP 1-Click Install on the cloud provider — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use the LAMP 1-Click Install on the cloud provider

LAMP stack is a solution stack that employs a specific group of software to host web applications on a server. This term is an acronym which represents the Linux operating system with the Apache web server. The site data is stored in a MySQL database, and dynamic content is processed by PHP. This tutorial will guide you through spinning up a cloud servers with LAMP stack pre-installed, using the the cloud provider LAMP 1-Click App.

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How To Configure BIND as a Private Network DNS Server on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure BIND as a Private Network DNS Server on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial, you will set up an internal DNS server using two Ubuntu 20.04 servers. You will use the BIND name server software (BIND9) to resolve private hostnames and private IP addresses. This provides a central way to manage your internal hostnames and private IP addresses, which is indispensable when your environment expands to more than a few hosts.

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How To Implement PHP Rate Limiting with Redis on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Implement PHP Rate Limiting with Redis on Ubuntu 20.04

Redis (Remote Dictionary Server ) is an in-memory open source software. It is a data-structure store that uses a server’s RAM, which is several times faster than even the fastest Solid State Drive (SSD). This makes Redis highly responsive, and therefore, suitable for rate limiting. In this tutorial, you’ll implement a PHP script for rate limiting with Redis on an Ubuntu 20.04 server.

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