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Ubuntu 20.04 Long Term Support was released in April 2020, and you may be looking to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Ubuntu 20.04 will be supported for five years through April 2025. The 18.04 LTS release will also be supported for five years from its April 2018 release....
While VNC is often used to connect to a Linux desktop environment remotely, X2Go is a secure alternative tunneled over SSH. X2Go supports sound by default using Pulseaudio, and file and printer sharing can be done from client to server. X2Go supports XFCE, LXDE, and MATE...
In this guide, we will be going into the step-by-step installation process for Grafana on a Debian or Ubuntu Linux Distribution. All you would need for this guide is access to your Hostwinds server with either distribution. If you have everything and can connect to your...
Ghost CMS is a fast, secure, open-source platform built on Node.js that can be a good alternative to WordPress, Medium, or other blog platforms. While Ghost has built-in SEO support, member payments, and email newsletters, there is no eCommerce support yet, so it may not be...
What Is WireGuard? WireGuard is a VPN service that can run on any Linux installation. It has a client for many popular operating systems like Windows, IOS, Android, and many others. WireGuard boasts of being more secure than OpenVPN while having over a million fewer lines of...
You might find it useful to install OpenSSH on your Windows server. Running SSH on your Windows server means that you can transfer files using Secure Copy (SCP) or SFTP. Aside from SCP and SFTP, you can open a secure Powershell shell or a Bash shell if Windows Subsystem for...
What is CSF? CSF stands for ConfigServer Security & Firewall. CSF is a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall. It is used primarily used to limit types of connections and public access. This guide goes over how to check if CSF is running and how to disable it on CentOS 7....
This guide will explain how to grant permissions to non-admin users trying to RDP into your Windows VPS. This guide goes through the steps to fix permissions in the Windows 2016 Server Edition on your Hostwinds Cloud SSD VPS. Sometimes when you create other users, and they...
Engintron is a free plugin that can be easily installed on your cPanel/WHM server. With Engintron installed, you can use Nginx as a reverse proxy to serve your web content in front of the Apache webserver. This can greatly improve load times and resource usage. Engintron...
If you are faced with moving a significant amount of files to/from your PC or server and rather not wait for them to upload one file at a time using something like File Manager, there is a solution. You can configure your concurrent transfers to allow you to upload multiple...
Redis is a flexible, high-performance database engine that supports complex operations and use-cases. You can set up a Redis server to run on your VPS and accept remote commands to modify, read, and perform operations on the database. Step 1: Install the Redis backend. RHEL...
Jitsi Meet offers secure and open-source video conferencing screen-sharing and document-sharing from your desktop web browser. Meetings can be joined with custom URLs, and you can also connect from mobile apps on Android or iOS. This guide will explain the steps to install...
What is DNSSEC? DNSSEC or Domain Name System Security Extensions is a security level that you can put on your domain to protect your visitors from different attacks. This is done with digital signature records or DS records. The DNS server will compare its DS record to the...
The cockpit is a helpful web panel used on various Linux distributions to perform administrative tasks on your server. The cockpit gives you the ability to manage Docker containers from your web browser by installing cockpit docker. This guide assumes that you have already...
A self-signed SSL certificate is used by default with iRedMail. If you have installed iRedMail from our installation guide or the latest release, installing SSL with Let's Encrypt is recommended. This guide will walk through the steps for installing Let's Encrypt SSL for an...
LiteSpeed is a web server developed and owned by LiteSpeed Technologies. HostWinds installs the LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise Edition (LSWS) on all Business Web Hosting servers to provide the fastest possible performance for multiple websites. LiteSpeed Technologies also...