cPanel 70 hit the release phase a few days ago. As with any other cPanel major release, it comes with a bunch of changes and improvements. We’ll be discussing the most important ones in this post. First of all, MySQL 5.7 is now the default database engine. This is major. MySQL 5.7 has been around …

What is NTOPNG? Ntopng is a traffic monitoring tool with a focus on flows and statistics related to any traffic that goes through a server. It is the next generation of the original ntop, which monitors network usage. Ntopng is based on libpcap and can run on multiple environments such as Unix, Windows, and MacOS. …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 has been released. Also known as “commercial CentOS”, looking at RHEL releases is a good strategy for analyzing what might come next for CentOS, the open source distro we all love 😉 Overall, RHEL is making a big push for cloud in this release. It also comes with stronger integrations …

Vi is a text editor created for Unix users. The original code for vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976, as the visual mode for a line editor called ex that Bill had written with Chuck Haley. The ex 1.1 editor was released as part of the first BSD Unix release in 1978. With the …

April 1st might have been April Fool’s Day, but it was also the release day for Linux 4.16 The last release, back at the end of January, had included the first series of patches for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. This release includes a new series of patches, which are supposed to be far better …

Especially with the recent retiring of CentOS 5 on March 31, 2017, use of version 7 is on the rise. For new systems being installed now, it makes much more sense to go straight to CentOS 7 unless there is a specific compatibility issue. CentOS 6 will have maintenance updates through 2020. The minimum recommended …

Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet. Not only it was the first cryptocurrency, pioneering concepts such as blockchain, but it was resiliently stayed as the most widely used one. However, certain challenges have come up in Bitcoin’s horizons lately. One of those challenges is the speed at which transactions are completed when volume is …

Rundeck is an open source software that allows you to automate routine operational procedures in any kind of multi-server environment. It has a number of features that are aimed at alleviating time-consuming tasks. You can easily scale up automation and give other members of your team their own self-service area to deploy jobs. Team collaboration is …