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Developing an API that works exactly like you intend to and that too all the time is not an easy task. No matter how careful you are, there can always …
How to Develop a JSON API with Ruby on Rails 5 A brief guide explaining the required steps to build a JSON API RESTful service using Ruby on Rails 5 Read More
As you probably know, the default communication port used by SQL Server for TCP / IP mode connections is TCP 1433. This simple - but far from trivial - configuration …
MS SQL Server - How to Change the Default TCP 1433 Port The required steps to configure your Microsoft SQL Server instance to listen on a non-standard TCP/IP port Read More
An Important Next Generation solution which deals with the unknown threats, now has an answer in form of a sandbox technology, let us understand a little more about this technology, …
The Beginner's Guide to Understand Sandboxing Technology A brief insight to become confident with the concepts of isolation and safe environment topics Read More
You must be aware of transportation nightmare called gridlock -streets are packed with cars and trucks, but do you know the world’s fastest phenomena - Internet - can also lock …
The Science Behind Torrenting - What Should Be Explained? A short guide to unveil the secrets behind the most used peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol in the world Read More
If you stumbled upon this post it means that you want to find a way to send e-mails from your Linux server and you're looking for a simpler alternative to configure …
Linux - How to install and configure sSMTP, a simpler alternative to Postfix and Sendmail A brief tutorial explaining how to setup sSMTP, a simple Linux service to send e-mail through your CentOS machine Read More
Anyone who works as a System Administrator on Windows Server platforms is well aware of the importance of user permissions: in most cases it is advisable to provide their users …
Windows 10 - How to set Domain User permissions on the local PC An overview of the various available options to configure user permissions for an Active Directory domain on individual PC workstations Read More
Since we recently posted an article about downgrading from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 on CentOS, we thought that it could be useful to add a post explaining how to …
How to install PHP 7 on Linux CentOS A useful guide to understand how to securely install and setup PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2 and/or other PHP builds on a Linux CentOS machine Read More
PHP 7.2 release introduced many breaking changes that could prevent some of your application from working properly. Among the many backward-incompatible improvements, perhaps the most crippling one is what they called …
How to downgrade PHP version on Linux CentOS How to securely roll-back to a previous version and/or build of PHP - for example, from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.1 - in a Linux CentOS machine Read More
If you've never heard of NextCloud, do yourself a favor and fill that huge gap by taking a look here: in very short words, we're talking about an open-source File Sync …
NextCloud 13 Login Page Redirect Loop - How to fix it How to address a common issue of NextCloud Server, a great open-source file sync and share solution Read More
We already made a number of tutorials about Nginx, one of best web servers available for Linux - which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP …
How to purge Nginx Proxy Cache in Linux CentOS A list of useful methods provided by Nginx when used as a Reverse Proxy with caching features to selectively and/or globally invalidate its cache Read More