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Today we will learn how to download YouTube videos as video or Mp3, using youtube-dl, as well as how to download full YouTube playlists. Install Step 1 Connect to your server as the admin user via SSH or open a command prompt. ssh [email protected] Step 2 We will download the latest youtube-dl to make sure we have the latest one Note: If in the …

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install a self-signed SSL Certificate on Nginx for Ubuntu 14.04 When installed on a web server, it activates SSL encryption over port 443 and allows secure connections from the server to a browser. Note This will install an SSL Certificate and configure it with NGINX, so having NGINX installed is required. Install Step 1 Connect …

If you have a large media collection and would like to be able to access it from any device, while still being able to host it locally. Plex is one of the best Media Servers out there. Plex server organizes video, audio, and photos from your media collections and several online services. Plex enables you to access and stream this media to Windows, Linux, …

In this article we will set up some samba file shares in Ubuntu 18.04, and secure them with username/password authentication, this is useful if you are setting up a NAS or Storage server that can later be accessed by most operating systems. Samba is a free implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, this will provide file and print services that are compatible with normal …

In this article i will show you how to install a really secure mail server the easy way. Throughout the time i had always had a hard time installing mail servers in Linux, first they require a lot of configuration just to get them working properly, second there is no easy way to manage them and easily add users, aliases or new domains, and …

Today we will be installing Observium. Observium is a Network Management and Monitoring System that collects data from multiple devices using SNMP and allows you to monitor all of the networks devices via an easy to use interface. It is PHP-based and uses a MySQL database to store data. Note This guide works with Ubuntu 13.10 to 15.04 and Debian 7. Install Connect to …

In this guide, we will be making our own Hypervisor in Ubuntu 16.04 by installing KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) as well as Kimchi, which is a free, open-source web-based virtualization management platform so we can manage our hypervisor easily through the web browser. You can find more info on Kimchi here Installing kvm Connect to your server as the admin user via SSH. ssh …

In this guide, we will be installing PiHole in Ubuntu 18.04. Pihole is an incredible easy to use and install AdBlocking Server with an easy to use web interface. PiHole works by replacing your current DNS server and uses multiple blocklists to block malicious DNS queries and AD Sites. The Pi-hole can block ads for all devices on your network once it is set …

In this guide, we will be making our own Hypervisor in Ubuntu 16.04 by installing KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) as well as Kimchi, which is a free, open-source web-based virtualization management platform so we can manage our hypervisor easily through the web browser. You can find more info on Kimchi here Installing kvm Connect to your server as the admin user via SSH. ssh …

NGINX is an awesome high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy server. NGINX is one of the best performing web servers available due to it’s ability of Handling high concurrency with high performance and efficiency in mind. In this tutorial i will show you how to compile it from source so we can add Google’s PageSpeed module which the default Ubuntu NGINX lacks. The PageSpeed …