Server Management (Unmanaged)

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Start, Restart, Shut Down or Force Stop Your VPS

The power buttons are at the top of your VPS page, on every tab. [[tldr]] Use Restart for a clean reboot, Shut down before planned work, Force stop only when th...

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Take and Restore a VPS Snapshot

A snapshot is a quick copy of your VPS disk at one moment. Take one before an upgrade, then roll back if something breaks. [[tldr]] On the Backups tab, under Sn...

Intermediate2 min14Updated 2 days ago

Reverse DNS (PTR) for Your VPS IP

Mail servers check that your IP points back to a proper host name. That is reverse DNS (PTR). [[tldr]] Point an A record for your host name at the VPS IP first....

Intermediate2 min22Updated 2 days ago

Reinstall Your VPS Operating System

A reinstall gives you a fresh OS. Everything on the disk is erased. Your IP address, VPS name and plan stay the same. [[tldr]] On the Rebuild tab, choose an OS ...

Advanced3 min18Updated 2 days ago

Monitoring VPS Resources (CPU, RAM, Disk)

When a VPS feels slow, the cause is almost always one of four things: CPU, memory, disk or network. Linux already ships the tools to tell which one, and a few s...

Advanced10 min967Updated 2 days ago

Basic VPS Server Management Commands

These are the Linux commands you will use most on a VPS you manage yourself: finding your way around, services, packages, users, disk space, networking, process...

Advanced7 min515Updated 2 days ago

Dev Mode with BindMounts + Hot Reload (HMR): The Complete Guide

Developing inside containers gives every developer the same runtime as production, but a naive setup means rebuilding the image after every change. Dev mode fix...

Advanced9 min2,646Updated 24 Sept 2026

From Zero to Production: The Complete VPS Setup Guide for Popular Stacks

A fresh VPS is a blank Linux machine with a root login. Before any application goes on it, it needs a non-root user, key-only SSH, a firewall, automatic securit...

Advanced9 min2,812Updated 24 Sept 2026

Running MERN/MEAN on a Clean VPS (No Control Panel): A Complete, BattleTested Playbook

This playbook deploys a MERN or MEAN application (MongoDB, Express, React or Angular, Node.js) on a fresh Ubuntu VPS with no hosting control panel. Nginx serves...

Advanced9 min1,303Updated 26 Sept 2026

How to Speed Up a VPS with Free Open-Source Tools

A VPS can serve a busy website or application quickly on modest hardware, but only if each layer of the stack does its job: the web server, PHP or the app runti...

Advanced8 min1,374Updated 3 Oct 2026

How to Build a Multi-Server VPS Cluster with a Load Balancer

When one server is no longer enough, or when a single failure would take your business offline, the next step is a small cluster: several VPSes that share the w...

Advanced11 min2,820Updated 3 Oct 2026

Ansible Tutorial: Automate Servers Step by Step

Ansible is an open-source automation tool that configures servers, deploys applications and runs repeatable maintenance from one machine, over plain SSH. You de...

Advanced10 min3,005Updated 3 Oct 2026

Nagios Core Part 2: Upgrade, Roll Back and Quick Reference

This second part covers looking after a running Nagios Core server: upgrading it safely, rolling back if an upgrade goes wrong, and a quick reference to the con...

Advanced6 min1,863Updated 1 weeks ago

How to Install Nagios Core to Monitor Your Server

Nagios Core is a long-standing open-source monitoring system. It checks your servers, services and websites on a schedule, and alerts you when something fails, ...

Advanced7 min6,848Updated 1 weeks ago

Linux Server Monitoring Tools Compared

Monitoring tells you a server is in trouble before your customers do: a disk filling up, memory running out, a service that stopped, or a website that no longer...

Advanced9 min2,126Updated 3 Oct 2026

Efficient Log Management in Linux: Best Practices and Tools

Logs tell you what your server did, who logged in and why something broke. Left alone, they also fill disks and bury the one line you need. This guide covers ho...

Advanced9 min2,336Updated 24 Sept 2026

Basic Linux Shell Commands with Examples

A few dozen shell commands cover most everyday Linux work: moving around, handling files, reading logs, checking disk space and processes. Which ones you can us...

Advanced8 min1,375Updated 3 Oct 2026

Advanced Guide to Linux File System Management

Once you know df, du, fsck and chmod, the next layer of Linux storage work is LVM, swap, mount options and special permissions. This page covers those advanced ...

Advanced5 min1,969Updated 26 Sept 2026

Linux Disk and File System Management: Space, fsck, Permissions

Most Linux server emergencies start with the disk: a full filesystem stops databases and mail, a filesystem error after a crash stops the server booting, and wr...

Advanced8 min2,204Updated 3 Oct 2026

Troubleshooting the Absence of LVE in CloudLinux OS 9 Kernel Name

If you run your own CloudLinux server, you may notice that on CloudLinux OS 9 the kernel version no longer contains lve, and there is no "lve kernel" package to...

Advanced8 min2,567Updated 24 Sept 2026

1.Advanced LAMP Stack: From Fundamentals to Mastery

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) still runs a large share of the web, from WordPress sites to custom business applications. Getting a LAMP site to work is ea...

Advanced9 min1,869Updated 2 Oct 2026

Linux Server Mastery: Essential Shell Commands for Beginners

If you run your own Linux server, most day-to-day work happens at the command line: checking disk space, installing updates, restarting a service, reading a log...

Advanced9 min2,652Updated 23 Sept 2026

Managing a Linux Server in Real-time

This is a worked example of looking after a Linux server when something goes wrong, and of the routine checks that stop it going wrong again. It follows one adm...

Advanced9 min2,167Updated 24 Sept 2026

Expert Guide to Server Management in Linux: Mastering Shell Commands for Linux

Running your own Linux server comes down to a few dozen commands used well: installing and updating software, starting and stopping services, reading logs, watc...

Advanced9 min3,237Updated 23 Sept 2026

An In-Depth Guide to Implementing Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) on Linux

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) turns a Linux server into a hypervisor, so one physical machine can run many isolated virtual machines. This guide sets up KV...

Advanced9 min4,903Updated 23 Sept 2026

Downgrading MongoDB to version 4.4 on CentOS, AlmaLinux, and RockyLinux

MongoDB 5.0 and every later version need a CPU with AVX instructions. On an older processor, or a virtual machine whose CPU model hides AVX, mongod crashes at s...

Advanced9 min4,473Updated 23 Sept 2026

A Step-By-Step Guide to Installing MongoDB Using DomainIndia.com VPS

MongoDB is a document database that stores data as JSON-like documents, and it is the "M" in the MERN stack. This guide installs the current MongoDB 8.0 Communi...

Advanced8 min3,779Updated 23 Sept 2026

Demystifying the Art of Configuring the Network

Configuring a network comes down to four settings on every device: an IP address, a subnet mask, a default gateway and DNS servers. Get those right, give server...

Advanced6 min3,242Updated 3 Oct 2026

Managing Your Domain and VPS without a Control Panel

A VPS doesn't need a control panel. If you are comfortable in a terminal, you can point your domain at the server, host a website with Apache, add a free SSL ce...

Advanced9 min3,102Updated 30 Sept 2026

How to Set Up Load Balancing with HAProxy

When one web server is no longer enough, or you cannot afford it going down, you put a load balancer in front of two or more servers. HAProxy is the free, open-...

Advanced9 min2,597Updated 3 Oct 2026

How to Install Docker, k3s, Jenkins and Prometheus on a VPS

Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Prometheus, Helm, MongoDB, Kong and HAProxy are the building blocks of many modern deployment setups. This guide installs each of t...

Advanced9 min2,553Updated 3 Oct 2026

Managing snapshots

A snapshot is a point-in-time picture of a server's disk that you can roll back to if a change goes wrong. Used well, snapshots make risky work, such as an oper...

Intermediate8 min2,091Updated 2 days ago

Updating the OS and software packages

Keeping a Linux server's operating system and packages up to date is the single most effective thing you can do for its security: most break-ins exploit flaws t...

Advanced8 min2,876Updated 23 Sept 2026

How to Enable Essential PHP Extensions on a VPS with CentOS and cPanel

Most PHP applications, from WordPress to Laravel, need a handful of PHP extensions such as mbstring, intl, xml and pdo_mysql. On your own VPS you install them w...

Advanced9 min29,990Updated 26 Sept 2026