This simple ‘how to’ will show you the steps to change the hostname of Linux server. The host name is the identifier of a server. A good practice is to set a meaningful name that will help you to easily identify your servers. Read More
How to check your public IP in Linux command line appears to be quite a common question, so we have an simple and easy solution for you.
You can get your IP from our “‘whatismyip” page by using command line tools like ‘curl’ and ‘wget’ and the following address: Read More
Rsync is a very handy tool for local and remote file synchronization. It syncs your files by utilizing an algorithm that transfers only the modified parts of a file and minimizes the data transferred. In this article we will show you a few examples on how to use Rsync and enjoy it’s powerful features. Read More
A new CentOS release – 1804 has been just announced publicly. The latest build of the popular Linux distribution is based Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 and includes mainly bug fixes and security improvements. CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivering enterprise quality operating system and features.
On May, 1st the new version of Fedora was released. Fedora 28 comes right on time at the promised release date and delivers a plenty of new features and improvements. Read More
Bionic Beaver – the next long term release of the most popular Linux distribution has just been released. Read More
In the following article you will find a few basic command for backups on PostgreSQL databases.
You can simply dump a database into a SQL file by using pg_dump
pg_dump db_name > /var/backups/db_name.sql
If you want to compress the output you can pipe the stream to gzip and the save it in a file:
pg_dump db_name | gzip > /var/backups/db_name.sql.gz
Sometimes you might need to remotely access a MySQL database. As a security measure, by default that is prohibitted, but on your own responsibility we’ll show you how you can make it work.
There are two changes you should make on a clean MySQL installation – first enable the MySQL server to listen on all networks and second to create an user allowed to connect from any client.
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A few years ago Parse.com backend service was a big deal . It’s pure simplicity made it quite popular for mobile and web applications backend, but since 2017 the service was shut down, and Parse Server was born as an open source, self hosted solution.
In this article we’ll provide you the steps to setup your own Parse Server on CloudBalkan. You can use it as a simple yet very scalable and robust backend for your applications.
Swap is virtual memory mechanism that can provide additional system operating memory. When the system needs to free up some memory for applications, it temporarily moves data from the RAM to a storage device. Swaping is important for the operating system, but as storage drives are slower than the RAM memory, this process can sometime slow down a system. That’s why sometimes removing swap is neccessary.