Installing HHVM on Ubuntu
In 2017, HHVM was the performance shortcut: Facebook’s JIT, WordPress and Laravel running faster than Ubuntu’s PHP 5.6/7.0. Nine years later, Zend Engine won — PHP 7, then 8, a proper OPcache, … Read more
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Ubuntu Will Abandon the Unity Interface
On April 5, 2017, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, published an announcement ending one of the biggest bets in the distribution’s history: Canonical would abandon Unity8 and its convergence strategy (the same system … Read more
Ubuntu in Windows Active Directory
Integrating an Ubuntu machine into a Windows Active Directory domain requires, in short: pointing the client’s DNS to the domain controller, setting a consistent hostname in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts, and having the domain name and an account with … Read more
Installing Gogs on Ubuntu and Debian
Gogs is a self-hosted Git server written in Go: a single binary, no Ruby, no Node, no queue, no Redis. You drop the file on the server, point it at a database and you have a web interface similar to the … Read more
The history of ISPConfig
In 2005, two Germans from projektfarm GmbH, the same crew that maintained HowtoForge, published a panel to manage Linux hosting servers. Twenty-one years later, ISPConfig is still going strong. It continues under a BSD license, with no fee … Read more