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										<title>How To Use WP-CLI to Manage your WordPress Site from the Command Line</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[WordPress is an extremely popular blogging and Content Management System (CMS) used by millions of websites. It can be used to easily organize, manage, and create content on the web and handle interactions with visitors and contributors. Although...]]></description>

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										<title>Intermediate Sed: Manipulating Streams of Text in a Linux Environment</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe sed stream editor is a powerful editing tool that can make sweeping  changes with very little input. In our previous article on sed, we  discussed the basics of using sed to edit text.  This article will continue our introduction by...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Set Up an NFS Mount on CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[NFS mounts work to share a directory between several servers. This has the advantage of saving disk space, as the home directory is only kept on one server, and others can connect to it over the network. When setting up mounts, NFS is most effective...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With PHP On CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[PHP is a popular programming language that allows you to quickly create scripts and install additional libraries. This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using PHP.  Step 1 - Install RPMForge Repository and NRPE on client ...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Use Top, Netstat, Du, &amp; Other Tools to Monitor Server Resources</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[How Do I Monitor Process Utilization?  top One of the most common tools for checking the resource utilization of processes is "top".  Top provides a simple, real-time table of your processes, with the largest consumers on top: top top - 14:45:52 up...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With Python On Ubuntu 12.10</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using Python.  Step 1 - Install NRPE  apt-get install -y python nagios-nrpe-server useradd nrpe &amp;&amp; update-rc.d nagios-nrpe-server defaults  Step 2 - Create your Python Script It...]]></description>

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										<title>The Basics of Using the Sed Stream Editor to Manipulate Text in Linux</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe sed stream editor is a text editor that performs editing operations  on information coming from standard input or a file.  Sed edits  line-by-line and in a non-interactive way.  This means that you make all of the editing decisions as...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack On CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[LAMP stack is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running. The acronym stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since the server is already running CentOS, the linux part is taken care of. Here is how to install the rest. ...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Copy Files With Rsync Over SSH</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Step 1 - Setup public SSH keysOn our origin server, we will generate public SSH keys with no password:  ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -q -P "" cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pubThis is our public SSH key that can be placed on other hosts to give us access:  ssh-rsa...]]></description>

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										<title>An Introduction to Linux Basics</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[About LinuxLinux is a free, open-source operating system. All of ASPHostPortal&#039;s offered operating systems are Linux distributions.  Linux has been under active development since 1991. It has developed to  become versatile and used all over the...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Use SFTP to Securely Transfer Files with a Remote Server</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[FTP, or "File Transfer Protocol" is a popular method of transferring files between two remote systems.  SFTP, which stands for SSH File Transfer Protocol, or Secure File Transfer Protocol, is a separate protocol packaged with SSH that works in a...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Configure Secure Updates and Installations in WordPress on Ubuntu</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system) used on the internet today. While many people use it because it is powerful and simple, sometimes people make a trade-off for convenience at the expense of security. This is the case in...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Use the Pyramid Framework To Build Your Python Web App on Ubuntu</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Web frameworks provide a quick and easy way to jump start a web application. Almost every web framework adheres to the MVC software pattern. MVC stands for model, view, and controller. It is a way of distinguishing and separating the different...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Change Themes and Adjust Settings in Ghost</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Ghost is a great new blogging platform that focuses on content creation and presentation over the superfluous bells and whistles that dominate other platforms. It provides a clean, easy-to-use interface and can produce very polished results. How To...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With Python On CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using Python.  Step 1 - Install RPMForge Repository and NRPE  rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm yum -y install python nagios...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With Bash On CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Bash is a popular command processor available on Linux by default. This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using Bash.  Step 1 - Install RPMForge Repository and NRPE on client  rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Set Up SSH Keys</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging into a virtual private server with SSH than using a password alone. While a password can eventually be cracked with a brute force attack, SSH keys are nearly impossible to decipher by brute force alone....]]></description>

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										<title>How To Install Nagios On CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Step 1 - Install Packages on Monitoring Server  rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm yum -y install nagios nagios-plugins-all nagios...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Setup Your Own VPN With PPTP</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[One of the commonly asked questions from our users is how to add another IP address to their server. You can assign your own private IP address to your control panel by creating a VPN tunnel. Whether you want to build your own Virtual Private Network...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Use a Simple Bash Script To Restart Server Programs</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[To ensure that the most imperative programs remain online as much as  possible (even after a server crash or reboot), one can create a simple  bash script to check if the program is running, and if it is not, to  launch it. By using cron to schedule...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Set Up ProFTPD on CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[ProFTPD is a popular ftp server. Because it was written as a powerful and configurable program, it is not necessarily the lightest ftp server available.  Step One&mdash;Install ProFTPD Before we do anything else, we need to download the EPEL...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With Ruby On CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Step 1 - Install RPMForge Repository and NRPE on client  rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm yum -y install ruby nagios-nrpe useradd nrpe &amp;&amp; chkconfig nrpe on  Step 2 - Create your...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Use ps, kill, and nice to Manage Processes in Linux</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[A Linux server, like any other computer you may be familiar with, runs applications. To the computer, these are considered "processes". While Linux will handle the low-level, behind-the-scenes management in a process&#039;s life-cycle, you will need...]]></description>

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										<title>How to Add a Swap File on an Arch Linux Cloud Server</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[IntroductionAn easy way to increase the responsiveness of your cloud server is to  add some swap space.  Swap is an area of the hard drive that can be used  to temporarily hold information that is usually stored in RAM.  The  result is that more RAM...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Install Z Shell (zsh) on a Cloud Server</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[IntroductionZ shell, or zsh, is a shell for Linux and other Unix-like operating  systems.  It is built to be a drop-in replacement for the traditional  bash shell.  The zsh offers modern auto-completion and auto-correction,  powerful scripting...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Launch Your Site on a New Ubuntu 12.04 Server with LAMP, SFTP, and DNS</title>
										<link>http://faq.asphosthelpdesk.com/article.php?id=175</link>
										<description><![CDATA[This article will take you from a fresh, new server to an online, working site.&nbsp;The following article will combine the relevant articles into a cohesive step by step to guide to set up your personal site on an Ubuntu server. Basic Server Setup...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Servers do not exist in isolation, and those servers with only the most basic SSH configuration can be vulnerable to brute force attacks. fail2ban provides a way to automatically protect the server from malicious signs. The program works by scanning...]]></description>

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										<title>Installing and Using the Vim Text Editor on a Cloud Server</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[IntroductionOne of the most powerful text editors accessible from the command line  is the vim editor.  Built on the foundation of "vi", an editor dating  back to 1976, vim adds additional functionality and power, while  maintaining the editing style...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Install Nagios On Ubuntu 12.10</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Step 1 - Spin up Ubuntu 12.10 x64 and add SWAP memory To add 2GB of SWAP memory:   dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=2097152 mkswap /swap &amp;&amp; chown root. /swap &amp;&amp; chmod 0600 /swap &amp;&amp; swapon /swap echo /swap swap swap...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With Perl On CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Perl is a popular programming language that allows you to quickly create scripts and install additional libraries. This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using Perl.  Step 1 - Install RPMForge Repository and NRPE on client ...]]></description>

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										<title>What is FTP and How Is It Used?</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[What is FTP?FTP is a way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. It is  especially helpful as a way to upload or download files to or from  a  site quickly. FTP clients allow connections from both anonymous and  registered users. When the...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With PHP On Ubuntu 12.10</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Step 1 - Install NRPE on client  apt-get install -y php5 nagios-nrpe-server useradd nrpe &amp;&amp; update-rc.d nagios-nrpe-server defaults  Step 2 - Create your PHP Script It would be a good idea to keep your plugins in same directory as other...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With Perl On Ubuntu 12.10</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[Step 1 - Install NRPE on client  apt-get install -y perl nagios-nrpe-server useradd nrpe &amp;&amp; update-rc.d nagios-nrpe-server defaults  Step 2 - Create your Perl Script It would be a good idea to keep your plugins in same directory as other...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Set Up vsftpd on CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The first two letters of vsftpd stand for "very secure" and the program was built to have strongest protection against possible FTP vulnerabilities.  Step One&mdash;Install vsftpdYou can quickly install vsftpd on your virtual private server in the...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Set Up vsftpd on Ubuntu 12.04</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[The first two letters of vsftpd stand for "very secure" and the program was built to have strongest protection against possible FTP vulnerabilities.  Step One&mdash;Install vsftpd You can quickly install vsftpd on your virtual private server in the...]]></description>

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										<title>Initial Server Setup with CentOS 6</title>
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										<description><![CDATA[When you first begin to access your fresh new virtual private server, there are a few early steps you should take to make it more secure. Some of the first tasks can include setting up a new user, providing them with the proper privileges, and...]]></description>

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										<title>How To Create Nagios Plugins With Bash On Ubuntu 12.10</title>
										<link>http://faq.asphosthelpdesk.com/article.php?id=278</link>
										<description><![CDATA[This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using Bash.      Step 1 - Install NRPE on client    apt-get install -y nagios-nrpe-server useradd nrpe &amp;&amp; update-rc.d nagios-nrpe-server defaults    Step 2 - Create your Bash...]]></description>

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