About Nginx Nginx (pronounced “engine X”), stylized as NGINX or nginx or NginX, is a high-performance web server software that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache. The software was created by Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. Nginx is free and open-source software. In this post, I will note commands that use to install and setup Nginx on […]
How To Set Up a Firewall with UFW on Ubuntu and Firewalld on CentOS
Firewalls provide a basic level of security for your server. These applications are responsible for denying traffic to every port on your server with exceptions for ports or services you have approved. In this post I note basic commands for work with firewalls in Ubuntu and CentOS. UFW on Ubuntu UFW, or Uncomplicated Firewall, is […]