Introduction ProFTPD stands for Pro FTP Daemon and it is a free open source software used among popular FTP programs in Unix environments. It is a secure and configurable FTP server program used for virtual private servers. Installation of ProFTPD ProFTPD can be installed on your VPS using the yum command. Before…
Vsftpd stands for Very Secure FTP Daemon. It is an efficient and very secure FTP server for Unix like systems including Linux. Installation of vsftpd For the installation of vsftpd on the virtual private server, type in the following command in your command line: sudo yum install vsftpd You also need to install the…
Introduction Linux divides its RAM into chunks of memory known as pages. Linux swapping is a process for freeing up its pages of memory. When a Linux swap occurs, a page of memory will be copied from RAM to a preconfigured space on hard disk known as swap space. The swapping does come with…
This tutorial teaches you to add and delete users on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. If you are logging into your server for the first time, you will have to log in using the root user credentials. However, you have to create new users for accessing the virtual server for many reasons. For example if there…
User Quotas is used to allocate a maximum amount of disk space for an individual server user or a group to use on the server. The disk space can be edited in the file /etc/fstab. Let’s go ahead and enable user quotas. First, open up the /etc/fstab file. nano /etc/fstab In the file, search for…
Introduction Postfix is an open source Mail Transfer Agent that is used to route and deliver electronic email. It attempts to be fast, easy in administering and more secure. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Postfix on CentOS 6. We will be using a server named Cyrus which helps in organizing…
Introduction This tutorial teaches you to add and delete users on your virtual private server. If you are logging into your droplet for the first time, you will have to log in using the root user credentials. However, you have to create new users for accessing the virtual server for many reasons. For example…
Introduction FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and it is used for transmitting files between computers on the internet. It is widely used to upload and download files to or from a site. FTP lets you establish connections even without authentication. To prevent this feature, you are allowed to set a username and password…
Introduction ProFTPD stands for Pro FTP Daemon and it is a free open source software used among popular FTP programs in Unix environments. It is a secure and configurable FTP server program used for virtual private servers. Installation of ProFTPD ProFTPD can be installed on your VPS by typing in the following…
vsftpd stands for Very Secure FTP Daemon. It is an efficient and very secure FTP server for Unix like systems including Linux. Installation of vsftpd For the installation of vsftpd on the virtual private server, type in the following command in your command line: sudo apt-get install vsftpd Once the file is downloaded…