Miscellaneous

Introduction> Introduction # Accurate time keeping is critical for almost any service or software. Emails, loggers, event systems and schedulers, user authentication mechanisms, and services running on distributed platforms all need accurate timestamps to record events in chronological order.

Status: Deprecated> Status: Deprecated # This article is deprecated and no longer maintained. Reason> Reason # Ubuntu 12.04 reached end of life (EOL) on April 28, 2017 and no longer receives security patches or updates.

Introduction> Introduction # Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, is a connection system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical desktop environment on a remote server.

###Introduction VNC, or “Virtual Network Computing”, is a connection system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical desktop environment on a remote server. It makes managing files, software, and settings on a remote server easier for users who are not yet comfortable with the command line.

Introduction> Introduction # VNC, or “Virtual Network Computing”, is a connection system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical desktop environment on a remote server.

Introduction> Introduction # Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, is a connection system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical desktop environment on a remote server.

Introduction> Introduction # You have seen in previous tutorials how to use PuTTY to connect to your VPS securely and how to create SSH keys with PuTTYgen. You might have more than one SSH key for a single cloud server, or simply more than one cloud server or Droplet that requires SSH keys to log into.

Introduction> Introduction # MQTT is a machine-to-machine messaging protocol, designed to provide lightweight publish/subscribe communication to “Internet of Things” devices. It is commonly used for geo-tracking fleets of vehicles, home automation, environmental sensor networks, and utility-scale data collection.

Introduction> Introduction # IPython is an interactive command-line interface to Python. Jupyter Notebook offers an interactive web interface to many languages, including IPython. This article will walk you through setting up a server to run Jupyter Notebook as well as teach you how to connect to and use the notebook.

Not a Definitive List… Often, when you log into your Linux VPS, you are looking to get some work done. However, no one can claim that the thousands of developers who create the software available on a typical Linux machine are always completely serious.

Introduction> Introduction # Rocket.Chat is an open-source messaging app built with Meteor. It supports video conferencing, file sharing, voice messages, has a fully-featured API, and more. Rocket.Chat is great for those who prefer to have full control over their communications.

Status: Deprecated> Status: Deprecated # This article covers a version of Ubuntu that is no longer supported. If you are currently operate a server running Ubuntu 12.04, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of Ubuntu:

Introduction> Introduction # The Go programming language comes with a rich toolchain that makes obtaining packages and building executables incredibly easy. One of Go’s most powerful features is the ability to cross-build executables for any Go-supported foreign platform.

Introduction> Introduction # When it comes to working with Python, especially in the domain of application development, there are certain tools that you will see being mentioned often in various places or open source code.

Introduction> Introduction # Node-RED is a switchboard for the Internet of Things, a visual tool that helps you connect your favorite apps, websites, and hardware together to do new and useful things.

Prerequisites> Prerequisites # The only prerequisite for this tutorial is a VPS with Ubuntu 13.10 x64 installed. You will need to execute commands from the command line which you can do in one of the two ways:

Introduction> Introduction # Emacs is one of the oldest and most versatile text editors. The GNU Emacs version was originally written in 1984 and is well known for its powerful and rich editing features.

Status: Deprecated> Status: Deprecated # This article covers a version of Ubuntu that is no longer supported. If you are currently operate a server running Ubuntu 12.04, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of Ubuntu:

Status: Deprecated> Status: Deprecated # This article is deprecated and no longer maintained. Reason> Reason # Ubuntu 12.04 reached end of life (EOL) on April 28, 2017 and no longer receives security patches or updates.

Introduction> Introduction # As introduced in our Python Web Server Comparison article, uWSGI is a vast project, capable of doing much more than serving web applications alone. However, its wide array of functionality, combined with relative ease of configuring it, make it an excellent choice for many deployment needs– especially when it is coupled with Nginx.