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We’re happy to announce that AlmaLinux is now available as an operating system choice on our KVM-based plans in our control panel.
Please refer to the following guide to install the operating system on KVM based VPSes using our Control Panel Click Here
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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at GNOME GUI on Rocky Linux 8
To use Rocky Linux 8 in graphical mode, you will need to install GNOME package on the system to enable GUI. We will go through the steps required to install GNOME GUI.
Check the available package groups for Rocky Linux 8.
yum group listOutput:
[root@server ~]# yum group list
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:49 ago on Fri 14 May 2021 10:00:46 AM EDT.
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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install OwnCloud on Rocky Linux 8
OwnCloud is an open source project that can be installed on your server to securely store and access files. Also allows you to share and collaborate contents that lets teams work on data easily from anywhere, on any device.
Find out more about OwnCloud.
Prerequisites
Before we begin with installing ownCloud, you would need either a LAMP or LEMP Stack installed and … Read More
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We’ve been working on a new set of features for our control panel and we’re glad to unveil the first redesigned feature today — CPU Usage and Disk IO Usage Graphs!
As in the above image, You can now monitor the CPU usage and Disk IO usage via a graph in control panel.
The above feature will be available soon in the coming days for all users in our control panel. We’ll post an additional update here once … Read More
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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Node.js on Rocky Linux 8
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment and it is primarily used for non-blocking, event-driven servers, due to its single-threaded nature. It’s used for traditional websites and back-end API services but was designed with real-time, push-based architectures. It offers users the ability to write websites in JavaScript whose code executes on the server instead of a client’s browser.
First, check for the update to … Read More
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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install PHP 7 x on Rocky Linux 8
Installing the EPEL and Remi Repository
For this we use the PHP 7.x packaged by Remi, a third-party repository which offers multiple versions of PHP 7.x and 8.x
First, lets install the EPEL repository,
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpmNext, install the Remi repository with the following command,
yum install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpmList the available PHP module stream
To check/list the available PHP … Read More
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As part of our commitment to provide you with the latest and most ready-to-use service, we’ve updated all our available templates to the latest available.
This template update process ensures that any new VPS deployed will come along with the latest available packages so you don’t have to spend time running a large initial update.
Templates for the following distributions/operating systems have been updated,
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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Composer on Rocky Linux 8
Composer is basically a dependency manager for the programming language, PHP. It functions as some sort of project manager that helps the programmer manage dependencies that will be used on a project to project basis.
Installing PHP
Install PHP by running the following command.
dnf install @phpOutput:
[root@server ~]# dnf install @php
Last metadata expiration check: 0:50:18 ago on Thu 13 May 2021 Hello,
In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Docker on Rocky Linux 8
What is Docker?
Docker is basically a container engine which uses the Linux Kernel in order to create the containers on top of an operating system. Which is use to create, deploy and run applications in a containerized environment.
First, check and install any pending system updates.
yum update Adding Docker repository
Enable the Docker CE repository by running the following command.
dnf config-manager Hello,
In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8
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.
To install Fail2ban, The EPEL repository needs to be installed first.
yum install epel-releaseNote: It will prompt for several permission Press “y” and “Enter” to continue.
Next, install fail2ban package.
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