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Finding the Right Type of Web Hosting

Today any average Joe can build their own website and make it look pretty legit using the tools that web hosts are offering. However, if you take yourself seriously as a professional then you need to step up your online presence. While beginners want to stay away from having to install and configure monitoring tools, a pro will want to make sure that this will be a smooth and easy process. Flexible Web Hosting Services While there are hosting services that are made for people only looking to host a blog or presentation site online for free, there are...

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How to install and enable EPEL repo in RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux?

What is EPEL repo? EPEL(Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a repo developed by Fedora project to ensure that there is a quality 3rd party packages available for enterprise users such as people who are using RHEL, Cent OS, Oracle Linux and Scientific Linux. These are highly used enterprise Linux OS which are shipped with default, thoroughly checked and officially conformed packages so that there will be less bugs in the installed software in enterprise environment. But there are situations where a 3rd party software which is of great use in enterprise world is not in the official list. For example Puppet is a great configuration tool which is not in default repo. The solution to this is enable EPEL repo on enterprise Linux box. Some of the well known packages which are not included in official CentOS, Red-hat, Oracle and Scientific Linux repos are as follows ansible - SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system cfengine - A systems administration tool for networks nagios - Nagios monitors hosts and services and yells if something breaks puppet - A network tool for managing many disparate systems rsnapshot - Local and remote file system snapshot utility p7zip - Very high compression ratio file archiver clamav - Anti-virus software wine - A compatibility layer for windows applications ncftp - Improved console FTP client hddtemp - Hard disk temperature tool openvpn...

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What is a mount point in Linux/Unix?

Mounting takes place before a computer can use any kind of storage device (such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share). The user or their operating system must make it accessible through the computer’s file system. A user can only access files on mounted media —From Wikipedia. From the above statement only a geek can understand what a mount point is and for the people who are new to Linux/Unix cannot understand it in one shot and they have to do a bit of research on it to understand. This post is for new people who are just going to learn disk management and Linux. All the advanced users can ignore this post if you people know the meaning of mount point in Linux. So what actually a mount point is? In simple words a mount point is a directory to access your data (files and folders) which is stored in your disks. To understand a mount, we should know two more concepts What is a partition? What is formatting? A partition is a slice of a hard disk to write data into it. There are many advantages in creating partitions such as protection from data corruptions by isolating each partition from one another, systematic writing data to disks, even sometimes writing and reading is fast when we create partitions. Formatting is a concept on how we write data onto disks....

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