If you are working on the setup of a new service and would like to allocate some port, you got to check if some other service uses that port. You can find out which process is using the particular port in Solaris by below tiny shell scripts. Following scripts will prompt you to enter the port number, and it will use pfiles command internally to give you the pid....

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of multiple proxy servers with their data centers distributed globally. It aims at providing high-speed service and content delivery to the end-users with high performance and availability. Whether you deal with video gaming, live broadcasting, video streaming, media, advertising, or any other content-related fields, using a powerful CDN will help accelerate your content delivery and improve user experience. But finding such a CDN service with excellent features at an affordable price can be challenging....

CDN is included by default when you subscribe to the Website Firewall (WAF) or website security platform plan. SUCURI CDN is a global anycast network available in the following locations to speed up your site. Europe – London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bulgaria Americas – San Jose, Washington, Dallas, Sao Paulo, Chicago, Miami Asia – Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney Some of the performance advantages of their CDN are: GZIP compression for resource optimization HTTP/2 support for parallel resources loading over a single TCP connection Smart caching options to deliver the requested content faster and reduce the server load/bandwidth Quick setup (enable in less than 5 minutes) Integrate well with other CDN like Cloudflare, StackPath, etc....

If you have entered the wrong hostname during installation or requirement to change it, you can change it as below. The following is tested on Ubuntu and CentOS. Changing hostname involves three steps. Change HOSTNAME value in /etc/sysconfig/network Change hostname in /etc/hosts Updating hostname on the terminal 1. Display Hostname Let’s find out the configured name by executing hostname on the terminal. Let’s change to geekflare 2. Change Hostname Edit /etc/sysconfig/network file using vi, look for HOSTNAME= and update that to the desired name....

This feature will help users join their creative forces and foster a sense of partnership. Moreover, Instagram also aims to reduce the duplicity of similar posts, thereby allowing original and high-quality content to thrive. In this article, we’ll take you through the ins and outs of an Instagram collab post, with creative tips, ideas, and steps that’ll help you step up your Instagram game! What’s an Instagram Collab Post? An Instagram collab post is a single post that appears on the feeds of two creators/users and shows both of them as co-authors....

Are you working on a project where you need to retrieve the external (Internet/Public) IP of the respective VM instance for the application? Good news – you can quickly get them. I am sure you would have tried running ifconfig command. And, you could notice the results contain only internal IP. GCP and AWS, both have a friendly web interface where you can see the public IP, but if you require to get them on a server directly, then the following commands will help you....

Have you seen this error? It exposes the server information and port number which is considered as information leakage security vulnerability. There are three possible ways to fix this. Handle custom error through web server – if you are using a web server in front of WebSphere then you can handle 404 error through a web server and show some custom error page. By showing custom error page you hide the server information and maintain the brand across the application....

Considering the increase in online web threats, one the challenge for web engineer is to well aware of hardening and securing Nginx. Nginx is well-known for its performance and lightweight web server/proxy and used on many busiest sites. Pinterest.com Reddit.com Wordpress.com Stackoverflow.com Mail.ru If you are hosting your web applications on Nginx and concerned about security then one of the first thing you would like to implement is Web Application Firewall (WAF)....

Ansible is one of the most popular configuration administration and infrastructure automation tools. It helps to automate infrastructure configuration/provisioning, software deployments, and general infrastructure management. Ansible was initially available on Linux. However, with Microsoft’s new viewpoint on open source, their community improvements, and their acceptance of a more agile, DevOps-minded software development method, Windows support is gradually catching up with the pace. Although Windows support requires a slight bit more configuration, it’s not very bad once the initial setup is done....

Smooth stone is not just for decoration. It’s crucial for making a few other things like a blast furnace, smooth stone slab, etc. You can also have it in your inventory by breaking another smooth stone with a pickaxe. Besides, one can find it in a mason’s chest within a village. Additionally, it grows naturally in a few houses in some biomes like plains, savanna, etc. But you shouldn’t search it anywhere since it’s pretty simple to craft....