Introduction Sometimes you might need to upload or download a folder or file to/from your server and the folder / file can be of any size. It can take a lot of time to upload a folder or file to the server. Also it is a lot faster to move one large compressed file rather …
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You would frequently require to download files from the server, but sometimes a file can be very large in size and it may take a long time to download it from the server. Downloading large file from server using FTP is time consuming. You can download the file from the server, using command line, which …
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What is a Swap Partition ? A linux swap partition becomes useful when your server’s RAM gets full. When your RAM gets full, then your swap partition will act as a RAM for your other applications. But does not this mean this is a great alternative to having a large RAM, because a swap partition …
What is a Swap Partition ? A linux swap partition is like an overflow for your system’s RAM. If your RAM gets full, then your swap partition will run the other applications. So does this mean this is a great alternative to having a large RAM ? No ! because a swap partition on a …
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To locate files or folders on your Linux server through command line or bash, you can use the ‘find‘ command. The syntax for the find command is as follows : find {dirctory_to_search} {search_by} {pattern_to_search} [action] For Example, if you wish to search a file called ‘filename.php’ by name on the entire server. fine / -name …
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Before upgrading it is always recommended that you create a backup first. Step 1 : Check the current version of Ubuntu uname -mrs lsb_release -a This should return an output in the following format : Linux 3.2.0-51-generic x86_64 No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise Step …
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To find out the processes running on your server : ps aux This will show you the ‘PID’ of the process along with it’s other information. You can delete a process by using the ‘kill’ command with the process PID kill 16516 Sometimes you run into errors that require emergent steps like killing of certain …
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What is mod_pagespeedIt is a module / plugin which helps speed up the performance of the site, by doing the following things : – Combines & Minifies CSS and JS – Optimizes the cache for the files – Uses URL fingerprinting – Minifies HTML To setup pagespeed, you need to first log in to your …
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What is Ioncube loaderIoncube provides security by using encryption / Decryption for PHP applications and IonCube Loader is a PHP extension that works to decode PHP scripts previously encoded by the ionCube PHP Encoder package. It also helps speed up the PHP application execution and restrict unauthorized execution. To install IonaCube Loaders : Step 1 …
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Cron is a command to the Server, for a job that is to be executed at a specified time. Cron is one of the most useful tool in a server. It can be run for jobs like creating backups, cleaning files, monitoring tasks etc. The ‘crontab’ command is used to edit/create cron jobs for the …
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