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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How To Install and Configure Elasticsearch on Ubuntu 22.10

Elasticsearch is a platform for real-time, distributed data analysis. Because of its usability, potent features, and scalability, it is a well-liked option. Installing Elasticsearch, configuring it for your use case, securing your installation, and beginning to work with your Elasticsearch server.

First, check for any pending system upgrade

Let’s update software packages first. To perform updates, run the following command:

apt update

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Gogs Git on Ubuntu 22.10

This tutorial will walk you through the steps necessary to install the Gogs self-hosted Git service on an Ubuntu 22.10 server. The Gogs project, written in Go, aims to create a simple, stable, and extensible self-hosted Git service with a simple setup process.

Gogs performs admirably and is extremely light. It uses very little RAM and CPU power. 

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 22.10

Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention framework written in the Python programming language. It works by reading SSH, ProFTP, Apache logs, etc. And uses iptables profiles to block brute-force attempts.

Installing the Fail2Ban package

Check for system updates and install them.

apt update -y

apt upgrade -y

Command to install the Fail2Ban

apt install fail2ban -y

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install BBR on Ubuntu 22.10

BBR stands for Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT is a congestion control system. You can enable TCP BBR on your Linux desktop to improve the overall web surfing experience. By default, Linux uses the Reno and CUBIC congestion control algorithm.

Run the following command to check available congestion control algorithms,

sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control

Output:

root@crown:~# sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control
net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control = reno cubic bbr

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Has your website grown a large following recently, perhaps receiving a lot more web traffic and visitors than before? Well, congratulations! 

Now comes the important step of ensuring your website keeps growing and remains accessible to your new visitors, often websites hosted on shared hosting services have limits set on them by their web host, while some web hosts might be generous with their limits, most tend to restrict memory usage, IOps (Input output operations per second) and other variables … Read More

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install GCC on Ubuntu 22.10

The default Ubuntu repositories contain a meta-package named “build-essential” that includes the GNU compiler collection, GNU debugger, and other development libraries and tools required for compiling software.

Update System

 apt update

Install the GCC package dependencies.

 apt install build-essential

To check GCC version

 gcc --version

Output:

root@crown:~# gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 12.2.0-3ubuntu1) 12.2.0
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; 

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