Apache Cheatsheet

Apache HTTP Server at a glance: service commands, file layout on Ubuntu and RHEL, virtual hosts, modules, .htaccess, redirects, TLS, reverse proxy, and log …

Nginx Cheatsheet

Nginx directives at a glance: server blocks, location matching, reverse proxy headers, TLS, redirects, rate limits, caching, and log formats.

10 GitHub Repositories to Master Self-Hosting - KDnuggets

Learn how modern infrastructure works through self-hosting: containers, reverse proxies, monitoring, backups, networking, and systems operations.

How to Install Apache on Ubuntu 26.04

This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing and managing the Apache web server on Ubuntu 26.04. You will learn how to install Apache, open HTTP and HTTPS ports in the firewall, and set up virtual hosts.

SSH Hardening: Best Practices for Securing Your Server

Learn how to harden your SSH server with best practices including key-only authentication, disabling root login, changing the default port, and setting up Fail2Ban.

The dangers of SSL certificates

Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…

How to Fingerprint Websites With WhatWeb - A Practical, Hands-On Guide

Another one of our simple, hands-on pen-testing tutorials. This one teaches you to finger a website for status code, server info, CMS etc.

Imagine you’re curious about what powers a website: the CMS, web server, frameworks, analytics tools, or plugins behind it. WhatWeb can tell you all that right from the Linux command line. It’s like getting a quick peek under the hood of any site.

How to Combat AI Bot Traffic on Your Website

AI bots are straining our websites by ignoring robots.txt and scraping our content. Learn how you can fight back with tools, plugins, and CDN services to block unwanted AI crawlers and protect resources.

How SSL Misconfigurations Impact Your Attack Surface

53.5% of websites have weak SSL setups—leaving attack surfaces exposed and increasing breach risk.

Zero-downtime with Rails credentials

Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.

Environment variables are not encrypted and therefore they can not be stored in any form of version control.

makes it easier to add new credentials because you don’t need to tell other developers to add them to their own .env file.

Powerful open-source server solutions

Proxmox develops powerful and efficient open-source server solutions like the Proxmox VE platform, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway.

Should I use Nginx or Apache Server?

Both Nginx and Apache are popular webservers that are used to host applications and websites on the...

Load Balancing

A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.

NGINX vs Apache : A Comparison of Web Servers

When it comes to choosing a web server for your website or web application, two popular options are...

How to implement a Load Balancer Using Nginx & Docker

Scaling becomes a necessary part for your system when your system grows in popularity. There are two...

Hosting Your Own Web Application: A Beginner's Guide with Nginx

#Introduction Have you ever desired you could develop a web application locally on your computer...

Mastering Nginx for Node.js: Best Practices and Tips

Nginx is a popular web server that is widely used to serve static content, reverse proxy, and load...

Build Your Own Web Server With Ruby - RubyGuides

Have you ever built your own web server with Ruby? We already have many servers, like: Puma Thin Unicorn But I think this is a great learning exercise

Use One Big Server - Speculative Branches

Building a Web server in Bash, part I - sockets

Have you ever wondered how a Web server works under the hood? Moreover, would you be willing to...

File: README — Puma master

Jacob Errington | Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reve

phanan/htaccess

✂A collection of useful .htaccess snippets.

Using Siege to Stress Test an Application

Recently the company I work for migrated to new servers. During this migration we were all fairly confident that our new architecture would work and would be able to sustain considerable traffic. How much traffic is "considerable traffic"? In all honesty, none of our team and…

Performance Tuning – Tips & Tricks

Let’s Build A Web Server. Part 2.

Remember, in Part 1 I asked you a question: “How do you run a Django application, Flask application, and Pyramid application under your freshly minted Web server without making a single change to the server to accommodate all those different Web frameworks?” Read on to find out…

Let’s Build A Web Server. Part 1.

Out for a walk one day, a woman came across a construction site and saw three men working. She asked the first man, “What are you doing?” Annoyed by the question, the first man barked, “Can’t you see that I’m laying bricks?” Not satisfied with the answer, she …

Servers for Hackers

What programmers need to know about servers.

Nginx Guide Code Tutorials | Envato Tuts+

More than 20% of sites on the internet use Nginx as their web server. How can you use it for your website?

imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server: An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.

An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server. - imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

How To Configure the Apache Web Server on an Ubuntu or Debian VPS | DigitalOcean

The Apache web server is the most popular way to serve web content on the internet. The Apache provides a modular and scalable server that can satisfy the n…

Beginner’s Guide

Let’s Build A Web Server. Part 3.

“We learn most when we have to invent” —Piaget In Part 2 you created a minimalistic WSGI server that could handle basic HTTP GET requests. And I asked you a question, “How can you make your server handle more than one request at a time?” In this article you will …

Four Linux server monitoring tools

Here is four strong monitoring tools i would like to present for you. htop - interactive process viewer You may know the standard tool for watching real time processes on your machine top. If not, run $ top to see it in action, and $ man top to read the manual. The

Home : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

My First 10 Minutes On a Server - Primer for Securing Ubuntu | Codelitt

How to secure an ubuntu server against attacks.

A Fast, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby & Rack - Puma

Puma - A Fast, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby & Rack.

Caddy - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS

Caddy is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go

Glossary: Cybersecurity Terms & Definitions

Learn about common industry terms and definitions related to cybersecurity and application delivery from the experts at F5.

Glossary: Cybersecurity Terms & Definitions

Learn about common industry terms and definitions related to cybersecurity and application delivery from the experts at F5.

Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack

Detectify analyzed 50,000 unique Nginx configuration files on GitHub and reported some common misconfigurations.

Performance Tuning - Tips & Tricks - NGINX