Ubuntu Hacks

The Debian distribution has a well-deserved reputation as being extremely well suited for use in the datacenter, and Ubuntu builds on that by providing simplified installation and official commercial support, making it ideal for mission-critical serv...

There are many different file-sharing protocols, each with strengths and weaknesses and each coming from different development backgrounds. The traditional file-sharing protocol for Unix is NFS (Network File System); for Mac OS, it's AppleShare; and ...

Apart from when you are doing the base installation or some sort of local maintenance, generally a Linux server is meant to be run without a monitor connected. Most tasks you would need to perform on a server can be done via the command line, and the...

Ubuntu makes an ideal web-server platform, with Apache and a huge range of supporting software available quickly and easily from the official Ubuntu archives. But just installing the software gets you only halfway there: with a few small tweaks, you ...

An email server consists of several components: an SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) server to handle mail transfer between hosts, POP and IMAP servers to give users access to mailboxes from their desktop mail clients, and often som...

A proxy server sits on your network; intercepts requests for HTML files, CSS files, and images; and keeps a local copy handy in case another user wants to access the same file. If multiple users visit the same site, a proxy server will save bandwidth...

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) dramatically simplifies the connection of new computers to your network. With a properly configured DHCP server, any new computers you connect will automatically be assigned an IP address, the address of you...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed directory service that maps machine hostnames to IP addresses and vice versa. DNS allows hostnames to be just "pointers" to the actual network location of the server, providing a consistent ...