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bookmark_borderHow to Install RockyLinux8

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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America’s top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction. It is under intensive development by the community. Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project.

For CrownCloud users: Please send us a ticket via the client area to add the RockyLinux 8 ISO to your account.

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This is pre-release software that is intented for development and 

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bookmark_borderInstalling LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 21.04

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Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 21.04

Updating the system

We first update the system to make sure that all our installed packages are upto date. Your Ubuntu system can be updated easily with the following command.

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

Install Nginx

We will start by installing the Nginx web server. To complete the installation, use the following command.

apt install nginx

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bookmark_borderUbuntu 21.04 Template now available for KVM

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Hello!

We’re happy to announce that a 1-click install Ubuntu 21.04 template is now available as an operating system choice for our KVM based plans in our control panel.

You can refer to the following guide to install the operating system on KVM based VPS’s,

https://wiki.crowncloud.net/?Reinstalling_your_kvm_vm_on_crownpanel

Customers running previous versions of Ubuntu can upgrade their existing installations to 21.04 with do-release-upgrade as well.

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bookmark_borderAnnouncing AMD Ryzen 5950X powered SSD VPS Now Available!

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Greetings,

We’re happy to announce a brand new SSD KVM product line powered by the Ryzen 9 5950X series processors, these are some of the fastest CPUs available on the market with impressive single and multi-core benchmark scores which help improve overall application performance.

To start off with, we have our new plans available at Los Angeles, USA (US-West), in the coming weeks, we will focus on expanding these offerings to our other datacenter locations as well. Please feel free … Read More

bookmark_borderAnnouncing AMD Ryzen 5950X powered SSD VPS Coming soon!

Posted on by crowncloud

Greetings,

We’re happy to announce a brand new SSD KVM product line powered by the Ryzen 9 5950X series processors, these are some of the fastest CPUs available on the market with impressive single and multi-core benchmark scores which help improve overall application performance.

To start off with, we have our new plans coming soon at Los Angeles, USA (US-West), later, we will focus on expanding these offerings to our other datacenter locations as well. Please feel free to contact … Read More

bookmark_borderSnapshots Restore Progress Bar Available Now!

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Hey There,

We’re happy to announce the Progress bar for Snapshot Restores! available in our control panel.

On this CrownPanel update, we’ve added a progress bar to the interface to make snapshot restores clearer and more informative, giving you a good idea of what’s happening within the restore process.

This progress bar will appear on the interface when any snapshot restore task is issued and update itself as the restore progresses ahead.

The above feature is available for all users … Read More

bookmark_borderInstalling Ubuntu 21.04 Beta on your VPS

Posted on by crowncloud

Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to install Ubuntu 21.04 Beta on your VPS

Ubuntu 21.04 (also codenamed “Hirsute Hippo”) Beta is out for Desktop and Server. Stable version is due to be released on April 22, 2021 which will be the latest stable release of Ubuntu after 20.10.

Ubuntu 21.04 Beta Ships with stable Linux 5.11.x kernel along with Python 3.9 as the default version.

Login to Crownpanel

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bookmark_borderSnapshots restore Progress bar Coming Soon!

Posted on by crowncloud

Hey There!

We’ve been working on a new design for our control panel and we’re glad to unveil the first redesigned feature today — A Progress bar for snapshot restores!

As seen in the above Gif, we’ve added a progress bar to the interface to make snapshot restores clearer and more informative, giving you a good idea of what’s happening within the restore process.

This progress bar will appear on the interface when any snapshot restore task is issued and … Read More

bookmark_borderUsing a GUI on your AlmaLinux server

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Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to use a GUI on your AlmaLinux server

AlmaLinux is new a CentOS alternative and is often used as an operating system without GUI, but just like CentOS, AlmaLinux supports installing a desktop environment/GUI which you can connect to via VNC or similar software.

This blog article looks into how to install a GNOME desktop environment / GUI on your AlmaLinux server.

To use AlmaLinux in graphical mode, you will … Read More

bookmark_borderInstalling Docker on AlmaLinux 8

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Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Docker on AlmaLinux 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 the applications.

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 --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Output:

[root@vps
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