In this article, we will install Mastodon on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.
Mastodon is a free and open-source network platform that is very similar to the famous social media platform known as Twitter. However, unlike Twitter, there is no single central authority and there is no advertising. Mastodon is written in Ruby and JavaScript and its open-source nature makes sure that it remains open for anyone to use privately and securely. Anyone can create a Mastodon server and build their own communities with friends. Additionally, Mastodon is supported by and available through multiple apps for iOS, Android, and other platforms, which will allow you to keep in touch with your friends anywhere you go. Let’s start with installing Mastodon.
Zabbix is a highly integrated open-source system monitoring solution. It is a software that provides monitoring of numerous parameters and metrics such as CPU, network, disk, and many others. All of the reports and statistics are accessible using a web-based front-end interface which ensures that the status of your network and the health of your servers can be easily viewed, from any location, at any time. Let’s begin with installing Zabbix.
Icinga 2 is a modern open-source network monitoring application which can be used to monitor the network infrastructure and check the health of servers and their services. Icinga 2 is a branch of Nagios rewritten from scratch in C++. It is backwards-compatible with all existing Nagios plugins, add-ons, and the Nagios user interface. Icinga 2 has a user-friendly web interface, but it also comes with a command line interface that can be used to monitor networks, servers and services with specific commands.
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Go is an open-source, compiled programming language created by Google. Go is popular for many applications, including Docker and Kubernetes, which are written in Go. The language is designed for writing servers and provides a big set of libraries, making it very versatile and applicable for many use cases.
Cezerin is an eCommerce platform powered by React, NodeJS, and MongoDB. It is an open-source platform that enables us to create progressive web apps for eCommerce. With Cezerin, your eCommerce website will load very fast because it is a single page application that only fetches JSON, and not HTML. Let’s begin with the installation.