NCDU is a text-based user interface, it allows you to visually see how and where disk space is being used via an easy-to-use interface. Simple run the command in the current directory to see a directory tree of folders & files and their space usage. I use this tool mainly for analysing why a server
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I dont like or know how to use VI correctly and by default CentOS likes to open everything in VI, I prefer nano and find when trying to edit the crontab CentOS always wants to use VI.
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Control your Windows Docker instance using Ubuntu Linux subsystem allowing greater controll. Windows 10 Linux subsystems are a very powerful feature and expand the capabilities for Windows based developers greatly, without the need to use VMs or dual booting. One of these is controlling your windows based docker host via your Linux subsystem.
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Install and use Ubuntu as part of your Windows 10 operating system ysing windows subsystems for linux. Perfect for use with Docker and CLI based tools / services where a Linux cli interface is required or better suited.
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Manage your system better with the ability to kill processes on Linux easily with killall command, kill those unwanted processes freeing valuable resources.
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A server is a computer designed for a specific task such as running a website, a server tends to be powered up more often compared to a regular computer with most servers running 24/7. Servers are a major part of our everyday live, the internet is a collection of hundreds of thousands of servers all
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SSH is a secure shell command line technology allowing a user to connect to a second computer and perform many tasks securely. I have written a post which is found here which tells out all about the SSH technology. In this post I am showing you how to connect to a SSH server in Windows
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SSH short for secure shell is a network protocol allowing communications between two computers, it is natively found on Linux based operating systems and used to remotely control computers and server via a command line interface. SSH was created to replace older insecure software such as telnet, telnet lacked encryption allowing anyone to intercept the
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VPS are a cheap and efficient way of owning a server without having to maintain the physical hardware, infrastructure and costs involved when renting server space. You can purchase a new VPS from most providers and within 15 minutes you can be installing your software and services. A VPS is just like owning a physical
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I’m going to talk about virtual machines (VM) before I go onto virtual private servers (vps), to understand what a vps is you need to understand what a vm is as they are very similar (practically the same thing). A VM is a virtualized (virtual) operating system running inside a master operating system, for example
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