How to Add Swap Space (in Linux)

How to Add Swap Space (in Linux)

Adding swap space is one of the easiest ways to increase the responsiveness of your servers and guard against out of memory errors, or errors caused by your server’s memory being full. This tutorial will walk through how to add swap space to your Linux server.

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Blocking Abusive IP Addresses with Iptables on Linux

Blocking Abusive IP Addresses with Iptables on Linux

I’ve recently had some questions come up from some of my clients who want to know how they can block specific IP addresses that are abusing their web sites and server. In those instances where you want to block a particular IP from your server and are running a distrubtion of Linux, you can block the traffic from that IP address by using iptables. This tutorial will teach you how to set up, view, and configure a rule to block a specific IP address.

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How to Setup the Magento Cron Job

How to Setup the Magento Cron Job

I’ve encountered way too many Magento installations that were never configured to execute the Magento cron job, ultimately causing confusion and problems. This post is meant to be a tutorial to help people enable and setup the cron job to execute as required by Magento, as well as answer some questions as to why the Magento cron job should be enabled.

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