Jeff Wilson

An experienced Linux veteran with many years of experience. Helping other Linux admins with frequent Linux and business-related blog posts on the RoseHosting blog. Techie by choice. Loving nature and travel. Happily married and father of two lovely children.

How to Install ClickHouse on CentOS 7

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ClickHouse on a CentOS 7 VPS, as well as demonstrate some things that you can do in ClickHouse.

ClickHouse is a distributed analytical column-oriented database management system. ClickHouse has the ability to perform queries in real-time, making it simple and easy to run applications that require analytical results. The ClickHouse query language is based on SQL, which only helps to simplify and reduce the learning curve for the end user. ClickHouse has two main characteristics:

  • Column-oriented databases – Records in blocks grouped by columns instead of rows. This method is much faster than the traditional row-based system.
  • Online Analytics Processing system – This systems allows for the organization of a large amount of data, as well as executing more complex queries.

Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install Apache CouchDB on Debian 9

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In this article, we will show you how to install Apache CouchDB on a Debian 9 VPS.

Apache CouchDB is a free and open-source NoSQL document-oriented database solution that uses JSON to store data. CouchDB is commonly used in mobile replication and synchronization devices as it does not lock the database files at the time of writing. CouchDB also comes with an easy-to-manage web-based administration console, and it supports trivial hot back-ups, a fault-tolerant engine, safeguarding user data, and much more. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Anaconda on Ubuntu 18.04

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Anaconda Python on Ubuntu 18.04, as well as some short tutorials on how to set up Anaconda environments.

Anaconda is a large and powerful platform of the Python and R programming languages. It provides a lot of tools that can be used in areas such as Jupiter Notebook, Pandas, and so on. Additionally, it is used for data processing, machine learning, and predictive analytics.

Anaconda provides a lot of popular python packages and package manager called ‘conda‘. Some of the popular anaconda packages are numpy, scipy, jypiter, nltk, etc… You will get all of these packages with anaconda instead of installing a plain version  of python and using pip for managing and installing these packages.

Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Configure a Firewall with UFW on Ubuntu 18.04

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In this article, we will show you how to install and configure UFW on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS. First, we will take a moment to introduce and explain what firewalls are, and then we’ll show you how to use UFW and how to make the appropriate UFW configuration.

A firewall is a software program that monitors the network traffic and prevents unauthorized access to or from a private network. In regards to the Linux kernel, a Netfilter subsystem is implemented, which is used to manipulate the network traffic. Almost all modern Linux firewall solutions use this system to filter network packets. Additionally ‘iptables’ – a firewall utility accessible from the command line – is also part of the Netfilter framework. To simplify the process of creating firewall rules, Canonical (the creators of Ubuntu) developed an iptables interface called Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW).

If you are using Ubuntu 18.04 and want to secure your network without having to deal with learning how to use iptables, then UFW may be the appropriate solution you are looking for.

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Install Cockpit on Debian 9

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In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Cockpit on a Debian 9 VPS as well as configure the Apache web server as a reverse proxy, that way you can access Cockpit with your domain name.

Cockpit is a free and open-source lightweight and powerful remote manager for GNU/Linux servers. Cockpit allows you to easily and quickly manage and administer your Linux servers through an intuitive web interface – it even allows you to use the server’s command line inside of the browser itself! Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Lighttpd on CentOS 7

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Lighttpd on a Centos 7 VPS as well as set up MariaDB and PHP.

Lighttpd is a secure, open-source, fast, flexible and more optimized web server. Lighttpd has a high-speed infrastructure that allows for better performance with the same hardware when compared to other alternative web-servers. Lighttpd supports the FastCGI, SCGI and CGI interfaces and allows web applications that are written in any programming language to be used with the server.

Lighttpd’s FastCGI can be configured to support PHP with opcode caches and also has received attention within the Perl, Python, and Ruby communities.

Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install Vanilla Forums on CentOS 7

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vanilla Forums on a CentOS 7 VPS.

Vanilla Forums is an open-source multi-lingual forum software written in PHP. It provides all of the features you need to run a successful forum. It’s easy to install and use, and it comes with lots of add-ons and themes to choose from. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install SOPlanning on CentOS 7

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install SOPlanning on a CentOS 7 VPS.

SOPlanning is a simple open-source online planning tool designed to improve the visibility of as well as easily plan projects and tasks. This tool is very useful for any projects, small businesses, production plants, booking systems, vacation management, and much more. We can plan tasks by associating a person with a project. Let’s begin with the installation.

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