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Introduction> Introduction # LDAP, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is a protocol designed to manage and access related information in a centralized, hierarchical file and directory structure. In some ways, it operates similarly to a relational database, but this does not hold true for everything.

MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL database engines. It is famous for being scalable, powerful, reliable and easy to use. In this article we’ll show you how to import and export your MongoDB databases.

[*]Introduction[*] Privilege separation is one of the fundamental security paradigms implemented in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Regular users operate with limited privileges in order to reduce the scope of their influence to their own environment, and not the wider operating system.

Introduction> Introduction # Apache Kafka is a popular distributed message broker designed to handle large volumes of real-time data efficiently. A Kafka cluster is not only highly scalable and fault-tolerant, but it also has a much higher throughput compared to other message brokers such as ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ.

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 # This tutorial is an ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) troubleshooting guide. It assumes that you followed the How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 14.

Introduction> Introduction # Django is a full-featured Python web framework for developing dynamic websites and applications. Using Django, you can quickly create Python web applications and rely on the framework to do a good deal of the heavy lifting.

Introduction> Introduction # WordPress has become one of the most popularly deployed and used web applications the world has ever seen. Thanks to years of constant development, it is now possible to create a nearly endless amount of different websites (or even web-applications) based on WordPress and its available plug-ins / extensions.

Introduction> Introduction # Node.js is a JavaScript runtime for server-side programming. It allows developers to create scalable backend functionality using JavaScript, a language many are already familiar with from browser-based web development.

Introduction> Introduction # NAT, or network address translation, is a general term for mangling packets in order to redirect them to an alternative address. Usually, this is used to allow traffic to transcend network boundaries.

Introduction> Introduction # Prometheus is an open source monitoring system developed by SoundCloud. Like other monitoring systems, such as InfluxDB and Graphite, Prometheus stores all its data in a time series database.

Introduction> Introduction # Nextcloud, a fork of ownCloud, is a file sharing server that permits you to store your personal content, like documents and pictures, in a centralized location, much like Dropbox.

Introduction> Introduction # Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files. If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they could eventually consume all available disk space on a system.

Introduction> Introduction # How do you keep track of authorized and unauthorized activity on your server? OSSEC is one tool you can install on your server to keep track of its activity.

Introduction> Introduction # Django is a powerful web framework that can help you get your Python application or website off the ground. Django includes a simplified development server for testing your code locally, but for anything even slightly production related, a more secure and powerful web server is required.

Prelude> Prelude # Mod security is a free Web Application Firewall (WAF) that works with Apache, Nginx and IIS. It supports a flexible rule engine to perform simple and complex operations and comes with a Core Rule Set (CRS) which has rules for SQL injection, cross site scripting, Trojans, bad user agents, session hijacking and a lot of other exploits.

Introduction> Introduction # Collecting and visualizing data is an important way to make informed decisions about your servers and projects. In a previous guide, we discussed how to install and configure Graphite to visualize data on our servers.

Step 1 – Spin up a Ubuntu 12.10 x64 droplet> Step 1 – Spin up a Ubuntu 12.10 x64 droplet # Step 2 – Install Squid> Step 2 – Install Squid # apt-get install -y squid update-rc.

Introduction> Introduction # Ranger is a terminal file manager with vim-like keybindings that uses the ncurses library to provide a powerful interface for your filesystem. Ranger uses conventions common to both text-based file managers, such as Midnight Commander, and graphical file managers, such as Mac OS X’s Finder.

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: