It’s actually much easier than I thought. Simply spin up a VPS from a hosting provider of your choice, and follow the following steps. Note that I use Ubuntu as the version of Linux because that’s what I am more familiar with. If you are familiar with others, the steps […]
Having a system-wide audio equalizer improves the overall enjoyment. Since it’s not available out of the box, what is the option on Ubuntu? Luckily, the out of box sound component, PulseAudio, used on Ubuntu has its own equalizer that you can install and utilize. You will just have to install […]
I have an Ubuntu VM that is running low on root partition lately. And here is what I did to increase it without reinstalling the system. First, expand the virtual disk to get more space ready for the system. Once the system boots up, turn off swap. sudo swapoff /dev/sda5 Fire up […]
SSL is used to be a luxurious security component for the big companies. Not anymore, thanks to the low cost or even free SSL certificate issued by the trusted commercial Certificate Authority (CA) such as Let’s Encrypt. With the recent recommendation by Google, more and more websites, big or small, are […]
A Swap Space is a space on a hard disk used as the virtual memory extension of a computer’s real memory. Having a swap space enabled allows your computer’s operating system to pretend that you have more RAM than you actually installed, only being used mainly when there is no […]
Monitoring CPU usage is one of the important tasks in computing. Even though checking out the CPU usage on a Linux system isn’t as straightforward or user-friendly as on Windows, there are still various utilities available for you to use. Top Among all the utilities, Top is probably one of […]
I had hosted my WordPress websites on the shared hosting plan for years and finally made the change a few months back. The result, I will never look back. And that’s why I decided to post a series of posts to record this transition and hope to help anyone who came […]