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Affiliate Program vs Reseller – What’s the Difference? At their core, they share many similarities, which is why we commonly see these two terms being used interchangeably. An affiliate program is where you send the business (customer) to a web hosting provider such as RackNerd, and the hosting provider is the one who manages the […]
In today’s blog post, we are going to go over how to install Plex on Ubuntu 20.04. This tutorial will go over how to set up your very own Plex Media Server in just a few minutes. In this tutorial – we will be using Ubuntu Server 20.04 OS. Step 1: Download Plex sudo apt […]
Looking for a top alternative (alternative to the “top” command on Linux systems)? Looking to troubleshoot high load on your Linux server? If you are looking for an alternative and user-friendly tool to monitor your Linux server resources, then BpyTop is for you. In this blog post, we will go over how to install and […]
Here’s how to SSH from MacOS computer. If you are thinking PuTTY MacOS… then it’s actually easier than that, because the ability to SSH is built-into your MacOS computer. You don’t need to download PuTTY or any other software to SSH to your server from a MacOS computer. This is the easiest MacOS SSH tutorial, […]
cPanel/WHM recently announced that their hosting control panel software is now compatible with Ubuntu Operating System! This comes as a response to the recent changes with CentOS 8 and its EOL cycle. While cPanel/WHM will still be compatible with AlmaLinux 8, CentOS 7, and CloudLinux 7/8 – it is certainly great to see that additional […]
Gone are the days, where large applications built on Monolithic Architecture are dependent on each service for full functionality of an application, or to service the end user. Well, you might have a question, what does monolithic architecture have to do with Docker or Kubernetes? Nowadays, where the whole application built on monolithic architecture is […]
Looking for a free control panel to manage your Linux Servers? You may want to consider Webmin. Webmin is a free Linux control panel – and is considered one of the oldest free control panels that is still in active development today (first released in year 1997!) One of main purposes of a hosting control […]
Webmin and Virtualmin have been around for a long time, and they are known as one of the oldest free control panel’s that still exist today. You may be wondering, what is the difference between Webmin vs. Virtualmin. In today’s post we are going to see some unique differences between the Webmin and Virtualmin Control […]
Have you ever wanted to upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8? How about CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux? Or CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux? None of those were possible or seamless before, and usually involved major system administration effort as a reinstall was usually required. That changes starting today. AlmaLinux today announced their latest project: […]
Trying to SSH into your server from a MacOS based computer but running into a fingerprint error, such as this? @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that a […]