How to monitor site uptime
It is a dream of most techies to own a website or a blog of their own. There are several criteria included in building an awesome site. In the beginning, many just doesn’t seem to feel the necessity of monitoring the site up time, but as your website starts to get popular and bigger in [...]
Google now sends wordpress update notification to webmaster tools users.
Google, as we know is very good at introducing new features very often to keep the web safer to use. Webmaster tools is a great product for any website owner to get access to tweak their site’s performance on google search results and also to help improve the site performance in terms of speed and [...]
How to change the Hostname in Ubuntu
There are times you may come up with a need for change in your computer’s identity over network. This is when you will have to change the Hostname of your computer. The hostname is pretty much like a label to your computer or the device for identification over the network. The hostname can be just [...]
How to fix phpMyAdmin 404 Not Found error in Ubuntu
Most webmasters opt for phpMyAdmin to manage their MySQL database on their VPS or dedicated server, but sometimes you may end up getting 404 “Not Found” error when you point your browser to phpmyadmin installation (say like: http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin). This error is most likely caused by not selecting “Apache 2″ during the installation. To fix it, [...]
How to install and configure vsftpd
This tutorial focuses on how to setup vsftpd server on your linux based VPS or a dedicated server. The vsftpd stands for “Very Secure FTP Daemon”. It is not just secure as the name suggests but also delivers excellent performance by consuming less memory. The tutorial also teaches you how to configure by adding ftp [...]
How to start, stop and restart MySQL in Ubuntu
There are times when you will be forced to start, stop or restart your MySQL server, be it on your VPS or on your localhost. And like every other linux distribution, Ubuntu also comes with a shell script that lets you to do this. All you need to do is to login as a root [...]
How to start, stop and restart Apache in Ubuntu
There are times when you will be forced to start, stop or restart your Apache web server, be it on your VPS or on your localhost. And like every other linux distribution, Ubuntu also comes with a shell script that lets you to do this. All you need to do is to login as a [...]
Monitor Processes on your Linux with CLI
System Monitoring is one of the key factor to keep an eye on what’s really happening behind the scenes in your operating system. People who are very much interested in the system performance and optimization often tend to check the resource usage of various applications, components and other system related processes. There are many ways [...]


