Jeff Wilson 
Most of us use online services like Gmail, Dropbox, Skype, Evernote etc. on a daily basis without having control over the service. However, now it’s easier than ever to find a self-hosted alternative to your favorite online service and have complete control over it. In this article, we will share a huge list of self-hosted alternatives to popular online services.
In this article, you’ll learn how to use the command line to Check if Email Exists, without sending an email. You don’t have to pay for any software or online services and you don’t have to send out test emails. You can do it all for free through the command line, without any limits on how many times you can do it!
We’ll show you, how to Install PostgreSQL with phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that is suited for large databases and has many advanced features. Its emphasis is on extensibility and standards-compliance. PostgreSQL can handle workloads ranging from small single-machine applications to large Internet-facing applications with many concurrent users. Installing PostgreSQL with phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04, is an easy and doesn’t take much time, follow the steps in this tutorial and you will be able to create and manage databases in PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04, in few minutes. PostgreSQL is available for many operating systems few of which are Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows.
In this blog post we will show you how to install Wagtail on Centos 7 with Nginx and uWSGI. Wagtail is open source flexible Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for a Centos 7 VPS.
In this article, we will explain how to install Paperwork on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. Paperwork is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to services like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote or Google Keep and it is built on top of Laravel 4.2. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.
In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step by step instructions on how to install WildFly with Nginx as a reverse proxy on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.
WildFly is a flexible and lightweight open source application server authored by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat.
At the moment of writing this article, WildFly 10 is the latest release in a series of JBoss open-source application server offerings.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation and configuration of VSFTPD on Ubuntu 16.04. VSFTPD is an initialism of Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon. It is free and open source, fast, stable, lightweight and very secure FTP server for Unix and Linux operating systems, authorized under the GNU General Public License. VSFTPD is one of the most used FTP servers for Linux and it is used as a default FTP server in some of the biggest Linux distros such as CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL. Installing VSFTP on Ubuntu is an easy task, carefully follow the steps below and you should have it installed in less than 10 minutes.
MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). It is widely used for building web applications and is an important part of the LAMP open-source web application software stack. Installing MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04 is really not so complicated to install, just follow the steps below and you should have MySQL installed on Ubuntu 16.04, in few minutes.