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How To Add a New Drive to Your Existing Linux Server
If you've got a hard drive you want to add to your Linux server, physical or virtual, it's not going to work out of the box.
How to Setup Slack Notifications for Low Disk Space On Your Server
You probably want to know when your server is running out of disk space.
What is a Cron Job, and How Do You Use Them?
The cron utility is used for running scripts and commands at regular intervals, and at specific times and dates.
How To Automate Your Slack Messages
If you're constantly sending repeated messages to Slack, and want to automate the process, you can do so from your primary Slack account, without adding a new bot user.
Why You Shouldn't Use Your ISP's Default DNS Server
Want to protect your privacy from your ISP? Changing the DNS server on your router will do the trick! We'll walk you through the process.
How to Send a Message to Slack From a Bash Script
With the help of a few webhooks, you can turn Slack into a notification center for your command line.
How to View How Much Bandwidth Your AWS EC2 Instances Are Using
Amazon charges you when your EC2 instances serve content out to the internet or transfer data between regions.
How To Use git with Multiple Remote Repositories
git can be configured to push and pull from many locations at once, enabling you to store your code on two different platforms while only maintaining one local copy.
Amazon Lightsail Is AWS for Regular People
If you want to run your application on AWS's highly reliable network but don't want to be bogged down by the complexity of doing so, Lightsail may be for you.
What Is a Graph Database, and What Is It Used for?
Graph databases are a special kind of database storing complex data structures that would be infeasible to store in a traditional relational database.
What Are Lambda Functions, And How Do You Use Them?
AWS Lambda functions are a way to run code without provisioning or managing your own servers.
How to Setup a Dark Mode Theme for Your Website
Chrome 76 added support for the prefers-color-scheme CSS media query, which allows websites to ask your operating system what color scheme you prefer so they can theme themselves appropriately.
How to Add Your EC2 PEM File to Your SSH Keychain
When you create a new instance in EC2, you'll be given a PEM file that acts as your access key.
What is an "API", and How Do You Use One?
An "API" is the middleware that sits in between two applications, and allows them to communicate using predefined rules.
Enable Web Font Display Swapping to Speed Up Your Website
Website optimization is crucially important for ranking well in Google and other search engines, and when you're competing with the rest of the world, every millisecond counts.
How to SSH from Your Smartphone
Smartphones these days pack more than enough power to run lightweight SSH clients, which enables you to connect to your VPS and fix important problems when you don't have access to a laptop and WiFi.
How To Set Up a Personal Gitlab Server
If you need version control for your projects, want to host it yourself, but don't want to use barebones git, you can set up a Gitlab server to store all of your code while providing easy access through a web interface.
How Do You Actually Use Regex?
Regex, short for regular expression, is often used in programming languages for matching patterns in strings, find and replace, input validation, and reformatting text.
How to Find Your Apache Configuration Folder
Apache uses configuration files to change its behavior.
A Beginner's Guide to AWS's Machine Learning Services
Machine learning is a huge industry, and AWS has a whole section of services dedicated to it.