A common problem server administrators face is running out of disk space or even just checking their current disk space usage. In this guide, I’m going to show you how to use the du command to check disk usage and the df command to check disk space. Check disk space using df command df stands …
Administering a Linux system is a little different than Windows. For starters, Linux is very CLI heavy but don’t let this scare you off! The CLI is a very efficient and easy way to interact with your system. It also means that your system is light on resources. Instead of using RAM for the window …
Linux is not new – it was first announced August 25, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. You might know of this email as “The Famous Email”. If you haven’t read this message, we’ve included it here for you to read: You just have to chuckle at “just a hobby, won’t be big” and “it probably never …
Back in our early days, we used to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on our hosting platform for customers who paid us a few extra bucks a month. Eventually, we discontinued it since there was a stable option available that was also free to use: CentOS. CentOS was bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL which meant …
