Tutorial: Installing Alphabet’s Outline VPN on your VPS
Setting up a virtual private network (VPN) on a personal server has never been particularly easy. Enter… Google?
Tutorial: Let’s make our development lives better with dotfiles
Imagine downloading a repository with git and running a single command to put all your preferences back in place after booting up a new server. Enter our dotfiles tutorial.
Tutorial: Ditch SSH, get started with Mosh
SSH is super powerful, but it’s definitely not perfect. Why not give Mosh, which promises better reliability and speed, a try?
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Tutorial: Extending Docker and Nginx to Host Multiple Websites with SSL
In this tutorial, we’ll use nginx-proxy and docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion to host multiple SSL-enabled websites and web apps on a single VPS with the help of Docker.
Tutorial: Installing Slack Alternative Rocket.Chat with Docker
Affected by the recent Slack outage? Looking for a free Slack alternative? In this tutorial, you’ll set up Rocket.Chat in minutes using Docker.
Tutorial: A More Secure Ansible Playbook, Part 2
Last week, we started building out a more sophisticated Ansible provision playbook. We made it as far as hardening SSH with a few simple-but-logical edits to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but there’s still …
Tutorial: A More Secure Ansible Playbook, Part 1
In our last Ansible tutorial, we covered the basics in Ansible’s method of configuration management, which can help you get new servers set up faster and with more reliability. The …
Tutorial: Using Two-Factor Authentication to Protect SSH Logins
Sometimes, you want to be doubly sure that no one can get access to your VPS but you. If two-factor authentication (2FA) can work for our dashboards, why not for …