ownCloud was developed with Linux and Unix based operating systems in mind so if you are looking to implement ownCloud in a production environment you probably should install it in a Linux server. But installing ownCloud in a Windows server is certainly possible now that PHP is supported in all Windows servers starting from Windows server 2008.In this tutorial we…

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If you are looking to speed up the loading time of your website or blog then you should enable http/2.0 in your web server. http/2.0 is the new updated HTTP protocol, and its supposed to be much more efficient than the now outdated http/1.1 version. I just enabled HTTP/2.0 on the web server running this blog, and I noticed a…

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Joomla is a popular content management system for building websites. Joomla is my preferred platform for building business websites that don’t get updated as often as a blog. if you are planning to publish content on your website frequently, then maybe using WordPress will be a better option for you. In this guide I will walk you step by step…

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Yesterday we installed and configured Windows Server 2016 as a domain controller and today we will be joining a Windows 10 computer to that domain. Please note that joining a computer to a domain requires an admin account, and a network account to login to the computer after that computer has been joined to the network. Create the AD account…

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WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the Internet. According to some statistics, WordPress powers up about 25% of all websites on the web, so if you are planning to start a blog or a website, you can’t go wrong with WordPress. There are many ways of installing WordPress, some web hosting providers even offer a one click install…

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If you are setting up Windows Server 2016 as a domain controller or as any other production server function in your network it is recommended that you set it up with a static IP address. This is a quick how to guide on how to do that. Note: you need an administrator account on the server to set your Windows…

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Nagios is a very popular open source network monitoring system. with Nagios you can monitor your network resources, and receive email alerts or SMS messages on your cell phone anytime those resources run low or when any of your network devices go down. Nagios was designed to run on Linux, it cannot be installed in any other operating system as…

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When you install Windows Server 2016, the administrator account gets created by default, and it’s the account that is supposed to have the highest privilege on the server, but on Windows server 2016 you cannot even open the calculator with the administrator account ( I assume it is for security reasons, calculators are too dangerous you know ) so  you…

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Windows Server 2016 hasn’t been released to the public for production yet. A technical preview version was released in November last year. if you want to learn what’s new and how to download the Window  server 2016 technical preview ISO image, please look at this post What’s new in Windows Server 2016 In this tutorial I will go through the…

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This post idea came up from an IT support request I got from a user trying to get to our company website today. she was typing just the the domain name without using the www prefix on the browser, and she was getting to our domain controller web server instead of the public site, and she was wondering why. she…

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