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Stock CentOS kernel in OVH


by Danila Vershinin, January 28, 2020

OVH is a great dedicated hosting platform. Their kernels are not so great sometimes

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Tweaking your webcam in RHEL 8


by Danila Vershinin, January 17, 2020

Tweak your webcam parameters in CentOS/RHEL 8 using the slick utility – v4l2-ctl

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Beyond Privoxy


by Danila Vershinin, December 14, 2019

There is software that we all know and love, and more often than not, forget about it. Privoxy is one of them. It allows you to filter ads and is also a go-to solution for anonymous browsing when it is coupled with Tor. With the arrival of adblock plugins in Chrome, and the web increasingly […]

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NGINX locations: performance impact and optimizations


by Danila Vershinin, December 12, 2019

NGINX location and rewrite directives. What are the best practices?

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Configure IKEV2 (Strongswan) VPN client in CentOS/RHEL 8 (Gnome GUI)


by Danila Vershinin, December 8, 2019

How to configure a Strongswan (IKEV2) client VPN connection in CentOS/RHEL 8

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How to run CentOS 8 on Acer Aspire 6920G


by Danila Vershinin, December 2, 2019

Acer Aspire 6920G is now an ancient laptop, but I still own one so this article is quite personal 🙂 I had no use for it, so decided to give it a spin for a fresh install of CentOS 8 while my Macbook Air is undergoing repair. Let’s see what happened and how I got […]

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Fix FirewallD in CentOS 7


by Danila Vershinin, November 17, 2019

Here’s how to fix the FirewallD startup problem in CentOS 7. A permanent fix, not a half solution!

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CentOS/RHEL 8 as your developer machine. Utilizing 64GB of RAM for performance


by Danila Vershinin, November 9, 2019

Leveraging 64 GB of RAM on your developer CentOS/RHEL 8 machine

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SwissUpLabs themes and plugins for Magento 2? Stay away


by Danila Vershinin, November 2, 2019

Slow Magento 2 website? Check if you run the Argento theme by Swissup Labs and get rid of it.

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Protect your signup forms from SPAM with NGINX and CleanTalk


by Danila Vershinin, September 6, 2019

Suppose you’re running Mautic on CentOS 7 machine. You’ve created a signup form and placed it on the front page of your website. The form is very simple: an input for an email address and Subscribe button. Bots are hitting it hard. They submit email addresses to your form, your database of subscribers have lots […]

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