How to Install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 18.04

How to Install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and set Apache Kafka on a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04.

Install Apache Kafka on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPSKafka or Apache Kafka is a distributed messaging system based on the principle of the pub-sub (publish-subscribe) model. It allows us to publish and subscribe to a stream of records that can be categorized. It is an incredibly fast, highly scalable, fault-tolerant system, and it’s designed to process large amounts of data in real time. Apache Kafka can be used as an alternative to a message broker as well, which allows us to process/transform a stream of records. Kafka can be used as a messaging system, but in a rather incomparably huge scale. Overall, Apache Kafka is a very powerful tool when used correctly.

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How to Install Roundcube Webmail on Ubuntu 18.04

How to Install Roundcube Webmail on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and perform the first-time setup of Roundcube on Ubuntu 18.04.

Install Roundcube Webmail on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS

Roundcube Webmail is a free and open-source web-based IMAP client, written in PHP. With its intuitive and desktop-like user interface, Roundcube provides an easy way for you to check and manage your emails using your web browser.
It provides all of the functionalities that you would come to expect from an email client, including full MIME and HTML support, an address book, folder management, advanced message searching, spell checking, and much more. Check out our guide if you’re interested in learning more about the differences between IMAP and POP.

Prerequisites

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How to Install Open Web Analytics on Debian 9

How to Install Open Web Analytics on Debian 9

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Open Web Analytics on a Debian 9 VPS.

Open Web Analytics is an open-source traffic analysis tool that helps website owners analyze how visitors use their websites. Open Web Analytics also allows owners to track their website’s visitors, including mouse movements, scrolling, and key-presses. Installing Open Web Analytics on Debian 9Additionally, Open Web Analytics has built-in support for tracking websites that are created with popular content management systems, such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

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How to Install TaskBoard on Ubuntu 18.04

How to Install TaskBoard on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we will describe the steps of installing TaskBoard and all necessary components on an Ubuntu VPS.

Install TaskBoard on Ubuntu 18.04TaskBoard is a free, open-source, PHP-based and self-hosted scheduling application which help users to keep track on their important tasks. TaskBoard has a simple and clean ‘Kanban’-inspired interface that’s intuitive and very easy-to-use.

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How to install ISPConfig 3 on CentOS 7

How to Install ISPConfig 3 on CentOS 7

In this article, we will show you how to install ISPConfig 3 on a CentOS 7 VPS, as well as go through the initial configuration.

ISPConfig is an open-source hosting control panel for Linux which has a user-friendly web interface – with it, users can manage their websites, email addresses, FTP accounts, DNS records, databases, and shell accounts.

How to Install ISPConfig 3 on a CentOS 7 VPSThe ISPConfig has four different levels of user access, which are as follows: Administrator, Reseller, Client, and Email-user. Each of these has varying levels of access to ISPConfig’s menus.

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How to Install Gogs on Ubuntu 18.04

How to Install Gogs on Ubuntu 18.04

In this guide, we will explain how to install Gogs on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS with MariaDB as a backend database.

Installing Gogs on Ubuntu 18.04Gogs is a free and open-source self-hosted Git service written in the Go programming language.  It’s easy-to-install, it’s cross-platform, and it’s lightweight, all of which allows Gogs to run on all sorts of hardware easily. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well, but it was tested and written for an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

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How to Install Shopware CE on Debian 9

How to Install Shopware CE on Debian 9

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Shopware CE on a Debian 9 VPS. Shopware is easy-to-install and set up, making it a quick installation. The tutorial will go over the required prerequisites, the installation of Shopware, as well as the configuration of Shopware itself.

Install Shopware CE on Debian 9Shopware Community Edition (CE) is a free and open-source e-commerce application. As an alternative to another e-commerce application, like Magento, Shopware is a complete e-commerce solution – it is a very powerful and flexible application. Shopware is very easy-to-use, and you don’t need to master PHP in order to use it. The application is based on a number of symphony framework components developed in PhpStorm through the core features and its plugins.

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How to Install and Configure a Simple DNS (BIND) Server on Debian 9

How to Install and Configure a Simple DNS (BIND) Server on Debian 9

In the following tutorial, we’re going to go through the process of installing and configuring a simple DNS (BIND) server on your Debian 9 VPS. This will allow you to host/manage the DNS records for your domain/s.

Before we proceed with the setup process, let’s first talk about what the Domain Name System (DNS) is, as well as what a DNS server is.Installing and Configuring a Simple DNS BIND Server in Debian 9

The Domain Name System (DNS) is technology that resolves the domain names/hostnames to IP addresses so that we can easily access the services using domain names instead of using IP addresses. For example, if you wanted to visit a website through its IP address, you’d have to enter a specific IP in the web browser’s address bar. But with the DNS, you can simply type “your_domain.com” to get there much more quickly. It’s easier to remember, and it’s more user-friendly. That’s why people consider the DNS as “the phonebook of the Internet”. Nobody wants to remember an IP, but everyone can and does remember a domain name. A Domain Name System uses DNS servers for its functionality, so a DNS server is any authoritative DNS host registered to join the Domain Name System (DNS).

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