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Apache is a free web server, cross-platform software that provides about 1/3 of the sites on the global Internet. This software is developed and supported by the ASF (Apache Software Foundation) community, which was formed in 1999. It was this organization that developed the Apache License, which is so widely used on other projects.

Linux is an extensive family of operating systems developed by both independent developers and private companies promoting their own software to the market. In this article, we will tell you which Linux distribution for servers is best installed in 2022.

Let’s see what the difference between virtual machines and containers is, why Docker is so popular, what Kubernetes is, and what are the main IT-market trends in this area. Both technologies are a method of virtualization and are used for application deployment, but there are a few fundamental differences between them which you will discover once you have deeply analyzed and compared them. Let’s see.

In this article, we will tell you how to properly migrate a PostgreSQL database from one server to another. Let's have a look at several options for creating a dump and further importing it to a new VPS or dedicated server.

If you want to make your descendants laugh, try to predict the future. Prophecizing is a thankless task, because in 9 cases out of 10 you will inevitably fail. In 1951, Douglas Hartree, a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, said that three computers would be enough for mankind to carry out any calculations. This was back when electronic computers were so large that their transportation required a truck. Hartree argued that we would never need mass production of computers since such devices are simply useless for ordinary people.

There are many reasons to install a VPS on Debian: reliability and stability, the flexibility of settings and many packages, good support, and a wide community. Another reason is the ease of installation of this Unix system on a virtual private server. In this article, HostZealot specialists will tell you how to install it quickly and easily!

WordPress or Joomla are the most popular CMS-systems developed on the principle of Open Source. Each of these content management systems provides a fairly extensive toolkit that allows you to bring projects of any complexity to life. Whatever type of site you do not need to develop - both WordPress and Joomla will be a solid foundation. But still, there is a big difference between these CMS, and in this article, we will try to comprehensively tell you what is better for shared-hosting in terms of security, load on the server, and a number of other criteria.

The choice of operating system for the virtual server determines how stable it will work, what tools the administrator will have, whether you have to pay to use the OS, etc. In the left corner - free Linux, represented by dozens of different distributions, and in the right - paid Windows Server, which is objectively much easier to use due to the presence of an elaborate GUI. But this is not all of their features, and further on in the article we will tell you which operating system for VPS is better and why.

Cron is one of the most popular daemons on Linux, which is essentially an advanced task scheduler. It is an important component of all Linux-like systems and is used by administrators to schedule certain programs and scripts to run at specified times. The administrator can set the periodicity of launching scripts, adjust the duration of their operation, etc. In this article, we will try to explain as much as possible how to use cron via control panel and SSH protocol, share tips on the initial configuration of the program, and give a small tour on cron syntax.

Dynamic websites and software written in PHP require the installation of the appropriate packages and libraries on the server. In this article we will describe how to install PHP on a VPS running the CentOS 7 operating system. We will talk about the automatic and manual methods, and also share some useful information about the initial setup after the installation has been completed.