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In computer networking, an IP (Internet Protocol) address is a numerical identifier assigned permanently or temporarily to every device connected to a network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. Its two major functions are…

Content marketing has become one of the latest marketing effort to build a business or personal brand. With WordPress, BlogSpot and Tumblr providing a platform for the user to share their stories, opinions, and expertise…

YUM plug-ins are small programs that extend and improve the overall performance of the package manager. A few of them are installed by default, while many are not. Yum always notify you which plug-ins, if…

You got an idea to build on the web and after making some effort to research, you get to know WordPress would be the platform that suits your need. With WordPress powered more than 28%…

On Unix-like operating systems including Linux, root is the account or user name that by default can modify all directories and files on a system. In this article, we’ll show how to make directories or…

You’ve set up your blog and you’re growing your readership — and you’re starting to see the potential of your hobby to bring in some pocket money (or more!). You’re ready to monetize! We’ve gathered…

In May of 2016, the ruling body of the Internet announced a new domain extension: .blog. After 17 years of making these kinds of announcements, including .XXX, .me, and some whacky suggestions like .cool and…

In Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, “everything is a file” and a file is fundamentally a link to an inode (a data structure that stores everything about a file apart from its name and…

Have you ever had a moment where you thought, “I should write a blog about that”? If so, you’re not alone. As the blogging community continues to grow, there are more opportunities than ever for…

Wildcards (also referred to as meta characters) are symbols or special characters that represent other characters. You can use them with any command such as ls command or rm command to list or remove files…

Singapore— October 6, 2017 — WPWebHost®, WordPress hosting provider with over 30,000 WordPress sites, is excited to announce the launch of its latest Managed WordPress hosting offerings in Singapore. With this upgrade, users throughout Asia Pacific and…

It is easy to get a good product to sell, but it is difficult to get the product sold. Because we understand the difficulties you are facing, we have came up with this blogpost to…

Searching for ways to increase click-through rate of your banner ad or affiliate link? Below are a few handful ads placement optimization suggestions that can help you to increase your CTR and conversion rate. Check…

If you are looking to start your website using WordPress, you have probably been recommended by others to host your WordPress website on providers like Digital Ocean or Amazon AWS. Depending on your level of expectation…

Is your WordPress site having a slow loading speed? Speed up your WordPress site with these few easy tips! A speedy loading page not only provides better user experience – it also helps in WordPress…

WordPress is undoubtedly the most widely used Content Management System (CMS) for websites and blogs. However, just like any CMS, it does contain certain vulnerabilities that are open to the exploitation of hackers/scammers. As a…

In our previous article, we have described how to count the number of files and subdirectories inside a given directory. This guide will show you how to rename all files and directories names to lowercase…

As a system administrator, you will inevitably perform scheduled system maintenances at some point or another. A few times, your system may also encounter some problem(s) and you will be forced to put it down…

Have you been seeking a way to deliver fast and interactive reading experience to your WordPress website users? Your website speed matters! Visitors leave your website if doesn’t load up in few seconds. Focusing on…

DENVER, Colorado — August 23, 2017— WPWebHost®, a WordPress hosting provider with over 30,000 WordPress sites announced it has taken steps to further enhance it’s managed WordPress hosting offerings. These new plans and features are highly…

Single User Mode (sometimes known as Maintenance Mode) is a mode in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux operate, where a handful of services are started at system boot for basic functionality to enable a…

It’s very important that every website owner has something special for their mobile visitors – something that improves the experience of visitors who visit the website on mobile devices. This is because mobile visitors take…

In this tutorial, we will explain auxiliary file permissions, commonly referred to as “special permissions” in Linux, and also we will show you how to find files which have SUID (Setuid) and SGID (Setgid) set….

There are many things you can do with the output of a command in Linux. You can assign the output of a command to a variable, send it to another command/program for processing through a…

The shutdown command schedules a time for a Linux system to be powered down, it may as well be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine when invoked with particular options and reboot instructs…

Sometimes it can be painful to navigate the Linux file system with commands, especially for the newbies. Normally, we primarily use the cd (Change Directory) command for moving around the Linux file system. In a…

In a previous article, we explained the difference between shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot Linux commands, where we uncovered what these mentioned commands actually do when you execute them with various options. This article will…

In this article, we will explain to you the difference between shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot Linux commands. We will make clear what they actually do when you execute them with available options. If you…

The /tmp directory contains mostly files that are required temporarily, it is used by different programs to create lock files and for temporary storage of data. Many of these files are important for currently running…

Have you ever tried to do the partitioning of hard disk larger than 2TB using fdisk utility and wondered why you end up getting a warning to use GPT? Yes, you got that right. We…

Have you ever wondered where the various files contained inside a package are installed (located) in the Linux file system? In this article, we’ll show how to list all files installed from or present in…

As system administrators, we would have got requirements wherein we need to configure raw hard disks to the existing servers as part of upgrading server capacity or sometimes disk replacement in case of disk failure….

One of the several duties of a system administrator is to install and manage software on a computer system-Linux in this case and in order keep track of installed/available software packages on your system, you…