Guides for setting up and managing Linux distributions on your dedicated server.
How to install Nginx on Ubuntu Server with HTTPS Install Nginx on Ubuntu Server or Debian and add a free SSL certificate in about 15 minutes. At the end, your site runs on HTTPS with a certificate that renews by itself. This guide starts where Secure Ubuntu Server and Debian in 5 steps ends: you […]
Read articleHow to secure Ubuntu Server in about 10 minutes Your new server is live. This guide secures it in five steps. It works on Ubuntu and Debian, and takes about 10 minutes. You will update the system, make your own user, log in with an SSH key, turn off root and password login, and turn […]
One buggy update is all it takes, here is how to make sure it never installs itself again. Here is how to block package and kernel updates on Debian. Sometimes a newer version of a package or kernel breaks something that was working fine before, a driver that stops working, a service that crashes on […]
Locked out of your own server does not have to mean starting over, here is how to get back in. Here is how to reset the root password on AlmaLinux when you are locked out and SSH is not an option. AlmaLinux inherits SELinux from its RHEL heritage, which adds one extra step compared to […]
Locked out of your own server does not have to mean starting over, here is how to get back in. Here is how to reset the root password on Debian when you are locked out and SSH is not an option. On a server that has been running quietly for a long time, this usually […]
Locked out of your own server does not have to mean starting over, here is how to get back in. Here is how to reset the root password on Ubuntu when you are locked out and SSH is not an option. This happens more often than people admit: a password manager mix-up, a handover from […]
Stop losing your connection after a reboot by setting a static IP that never changes. Here is how to configure static IP on AlmaLinux. By default, your server gets its IP address from DHCP. That works, until a reboot or a network change hands it a different address, and anything that depended on the old […]