In this article, we will break down the key points that FX Brokers should consider when it comes to choosing the right server for their liquidity bridge to function optimally. 

Selecting the ideal server is a complex decision for Forex Brokers, and involves multiple crucial considerations. This holds especially true for FX Brokers who utilize a liquidity bridge, as they have even more reason to prioritize a resilient server infrastructure. 

In this article, we will break down the key points that FX Brokers should consider when it comes to choosing the right server for their liquidity bridge to function optimally. 

What is a Liquidity Bridge 

A liquidity bridge, or simply bridge, is a piece of software that connects trading platforms like cTrader, MT4 or MT5 to multiple liquidity providers. A bridge acts as the intermediary that facilitates the seamless execution of trades by allowing access to a wide range of liquidity sources. Put simply, the bridge works by amassing liquidity from multiple sources, thus providing traders with better access to competitive pricing and deeper liquidity pools. 

3 Key Points to Consider when Choosing a Liquidity Bridge Server 

For many brokers who wish to expand their business and offer their services to high-volume traders, a liquidity bridge serves as a key component within their trading infrastructure. In order to implement a bridge successfully, the following points need to be considered. 

Location and Latency 

In order for trades to be executed flawlessly, the consistent reliability of a liquidity bridge is fundamental, and your server location plays a huge role in achieving this. By opting for a server housed in a data centre in a strategic financial location, you are able to maintain the optimal connectivity and low latency required for your liquidity bridge to run efficiently.

For the rapid execution of trades without slippage, there needs to be minimal delay in transmitting data, which is why choosing the ideal environment for your server is paramount. 

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Security and Compliance 

When choosing the right server for your liquidity bridge, security considerations should not be taken lightly. Opt for a location that minimizes exposure to natural disasters, and that your chosen data centre holds full certifications and adheres to regulatory standards. 

In addition to that, it’s important that your server is equipped with the necessary security measures to minimise the risk of data breaches, as well as protection from DDoS attacks which are rife within the financial industry. 

Reliability and Uptime 

A reliable server is crucial for uninterrupted trading activities, so checking your hosting provider’s uptime guarantee is essential. An uptime of 99.9% is considered a standard benchmark in the industry, ensuring minimal disruptions to your trading operations.

It’s also important to check the level of customer support you can expect to receive from your provider. Make sure to verify their methods of communication, 24/7 availability and swift response times, especially during critical trading hours. 

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In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing WordPress with LEMP (Nginx, MySQL, PHP) on a Debian 12 server.

WordPress has become an extremely popular CMS due to its ease-of-use, extensive customization options and huge community support. Installing WordPress with LEMP Stack on a Debian 12 server provides a robust and efficient web hosting solution.

What is LEMP Stack

LEMP stands for Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP. The “E” simply stands for the way Nginx is pronounced which is “Engine-X”.

Nginx is an alternative HTTP/HTTPS web server which is known to be lighter and better performing than the Apache webserver. For this reason, web developers and system admins tend to prefer using the LEMP stack over LAMP.

In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing WordPress with LEMP on a Debian 12 server.

Prerequisites

• Server with Debian 12 OS installed
• SSH Access with root or sudo-privileged user

Steps to Install LEMP on Debian 12 Server

Step 1. Switch to Root User

First, switch to the root user using the following command. Unless stated otherwise, all subsequent commands must be executed as the root user.

john@debian-server:~$ sudo –i

Step 2. Update Repositories

WordPress requires that a PHP MySQL Extension is installed so that it can connect to a MySQL database. Run the following command to ensure that the extension is present.

root@localhost:~$ apt update -y && apt upgrade -y

Step 3. Install PHP

root@localhost:~$ apt install php-fpm php-mysql php-gd php-cli php-curl php-mbstring php-zip php-opcache php-xml php-mysqli -y

Step 4. Install Nginx

root@localhost:~$ apt install nginx -y

Upon successful installation, nginx will start on your server. To verify it is running okay, open a browser and type your server’s IP address. If all went successful, you should see Nginx’s default welcome page as shown below.

Step 5. Install MariaDB

We choose to install MariaDB as it offers improved performance, faster replication speed, better security measures and additional storage engines compared to MySQL.

Let’s proceed with install MariaDB on our server:

root@localhost:~$ apt install mariadb-server -y

Sample Output:

Then lets proceed with securing our MariaDB installation using the mysql_secure_installation script.

root@localhost:~$ mysql_secure_installation

When prompted press ‘Y’ to continue and at some point you will be asked to enter a new MariaDB root password. Enter it and continue with pressing ‘Y’.

At this point you have successfully installed Nginx, PHP and MariaDB on your Debian 12 server. Let’s continue with installing WordPress on our LEMP stack.

Step 6. Create WordPress Database

Next you will need to create a WordPress Database and User. Run the following command to get an SQL shell on the MariaDB server.

root@localhost:~$ mysql -uroot -p

Enter the mysql root password and hit enter to access the mysql shell console.

As soon as you are in the mysql shell console, execute the following command to create your first database along with granting access to a new database user.

Make sure you replace the database name, user and password with anything you like.

CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;
CREATE USER wordpress_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'my-password';
GRANT ALL ON wordpress_db.* TO wordpress_user@localhost;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Step 7. Configure Nginx

Next step is to configure nginx. At this point you need to choose a domain name where your WordPress website will be reachable at. For the purposes of this tutorial, we use mywpsite.com as the domain name. Make sure to replace any instances of mywpsite.com in the below with your own domain name.

Run the following command to create a directory for storing any WordPress-related files to be served by Nginx.

root@localhost:~$ mkdir -p /var/www/html/mywpsite.com/public_html

Now, let’s create an Nginx configuration file for the WordPress domain. Run the following command to open a file for editing.

root@localhost:~$ vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/mywpsite.com.conf

Add the following to the file, then save the file and exit.

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name mywpsite.com www.mywpsite.com;
  root /var/www/html/mywpsite.com/public_html;
  index index.html;

  location / {
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }

  location ~* \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
  }
}

Finally, create a symlink in sites-enabled/ folder to the configuration file we just created.

root@localhost:~$ ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mywpsite.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Disable the default Nginx site by removing the symbolic link for the default site from sites-enabled.

root@localhost:~$ rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Step 7. Validate nginx configuration & Restart nginx

Run nginx -t to make sure your configuration is valid.

root@localhost:~$ nginx -t

The output should resemble the below:

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

If any errors are reported, you need to go back to the previous step and correct them by editing the Nginx configuration file.

Now, restart Nginx using the following command:

systemctl restart nginx

Step 8. Install WordPress latest version

Proceed as follows to download, install and configure WordPress on your Debian 12 server.

root@localhost:~$ curl -L -O http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Then extract the compressed file using this command:

root@localhost:~$ tar xf latest.tar.gz

At this point, we need to move the extracted files/folders into the directory Nginx is configured to serve files from.

root@localhost:~$ mv wordpress/* /var/www/html/mywpsite.com/public_html

Step 9. Create wp-config.php file

WordPress comes with a sample configuration file that you can use as a template for inserting your own configuration.

Copy the sample configuration file to the location WordPress expects to read the actual configuration file from.

root@localhost:~$ cp /var/www/html/mywpsite.com/public_html/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/mywpsite.com/public_html/wp-config.php

Then, edit the newly created file wp-config.php and set the appropriate values for DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD.

root@localhost:~$ vi /var/www/html/mywpsite.com/public_html/wp-config.php

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress_db' );

 /** Database username */
define( 'DB_USER', 'wordpress_user' );

/** Database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'my-password' );

Remember: The above values are the ones we used when creating our new database in Step 6.

Save the file wp-config.php and exit.

Step 10. Fix WordPress directory Ownership

Final step we need to do is to update the ownership of all WordPress-related files so that Nginx can serve them correctly.

root@localhost:~$ chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/html/mywpsite.com/public_html

Now, use your browser to navigate to http://YOUR_SERVER_IP (make sure you replace with the IP of your server), and follow the instructions to complete your WordPress installation!

Congratulations! You have successfully installed the latest WordPress with LAMP on a Debian 12 server! Deploy a Linux Cloud Server in 60 seconds and get started!

In this article we will show the simple steps of installing and configuring the NFS server on Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 22.

NFS stands for Network File Share and it’s a common protocol used for sharing files and directories over a local or public network. In simple terms, it is a shared directory where other clients (computers, servers) can easily access them.

In this article we will show the simple steps of installing and configuring the NFS server on Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 22 servers; the commands are identical for both environments.

Steps to Install NFS Server on Debian 12 & Ubuntu 22.04

While writing this tutorial we used the root account on a Debian 12 server. If you are using a non-root account please prepend “sudo” in all of the following commands, e.g. sudo apt update.

Step 1: Update Packages

First step is to update our system’s packages by running this command:

root@localhost:~$ apt update -y

Step 2: Install NFS Server

You are now ready to install NFS Server on your Ubuntu or Debian server through apt, as follows:

root@localhost:~$ apt install nfs-kernel-server -y

Sample Output:

At this point NFS has been successfully installed on your system. We are not done yet though. Let’s proceed to configure our NFS server so remote NFS clients can start connecting to it.

Steps to Configure NFS Server on Debian 12 & Ubuntu 22.04

Step 1: Create the directory to be shared

In our example we are creating the directory named “share_me” under /home.

root@localhost:~$ mkdir /home/share_me

Step 2: Set directory & file permissions

It is important to set the right permissions on your newly created directory, so that all client machines can access it:

root@localhost:~$ chown -R nobody:nogroup /home/share_me

In similar way, we set the permissions for the files. In our example we are giving permissions to read, write and execute to all files under /home/share_me:

root@localhost:~$ chmod 777 /home/share_me/

Step 3: Grant NFS Access

This is the most important step in configuring an NFS server. The right access must be given depending on who you want to be able to access your shared directory.

Edit the file /etc/exports using the nano editor:

root@localhost:~$ nano /etc/exports

Add the following line(s) in the end of the file:

/home/share_me 192.168.10.3/32 (rw,sync,subtree_check)
/home/share_me 172.16.1.230/32 (rw,sync,subtree_check)

In our example, we have granted access to two individual IPs (192.168.10.3 , 172.16.1.230) to access our NFS Shared directory. Feel free to adjust as needed.

Regarding the parameters that follow the IP address, please take a look at this guide.

Now, save and exit the file.

Step 4: Export the NFS directory

The following command will export your newly created NFS directory:

root@localhost:~$ exportfs -a

Step 5: Restart NFS Server & Auto-start on Boot

Changes will be applied by restarting NFS server as follows:

root@localhost:~$ systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server

Then, ensure that the service auto-starts on server boot:

root@localhost:~$ systemctl enable nfs-kernel-server

Finally, firewall plays an important role whether remote clients will be able to access your NFS share or not.

Port 2049 is the one responsible for NFS protocol, so allow it on your firewall (firewalld, iptables or ufw).

That’s all! Congratulations on setting up your NFS Server on Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04 server!

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While cloud hosting has gained popularity for its scalability and flexibility, this article aims to anatomize the compelling reasons why FX brokers should consider choosing dedicated servers for hosting the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) trading platform.

In the fast-paced world of forex trading, where split-second decisions can define success, the choice of hosting infrastructure plays a crucial role in a forex broker’s ability to deliver an exceptional trading experience.

While cloud hosting has gained popularity for its scalability and flexibility, this article aims to anatomize the compelling reasons why FX brokers should consider choosing dedicated servers for hosting the MetaTrader 5 (MT5) trading platform.

7 Reasons Why Brokers Should Choose Dedicated Server for MT5 Platform hosting

1. Precision Performance: The Need for Speed

In the industry of online forex trading, speed is everything. Dedicated servers offer unparalleled performance compared to virtual servers. With a single-tenant environment, dedicated servers ensure low latency and high-speed connectivity, critical for executing trades with precision. This is particularly crucial for high-frequency traders who rely on split-second decisions to capitalize on market movements.

The consistent and reliable performance of dedicated servers provides traders with the edge they need in this fiercely competitive landscape.

2. Reliability: The Key for Achieving Traders’ Trust

Reliability is a cornerstone of success in forex trading. Dedicated servers, being single-tenant environments, eliminate the risks associated with shared resources that are inherent in cloud hosting. The result is enhanced stability and reduced downtime, ensuring that the MT5 platform remains operational during critical market hours. This reliability not only fosters trust among traders but also solidifies the broker’s reputation as a reliable partner in the volatile world of forex trading.

3. Total Control Over Resources: Tailoring to Your Needs

Dedicated servers provide brokers with complete control over resource allocation. In contrast to cloud hosting, where resources are distributed among multiple server instances on the same hardware, dedicated servers allow for the customization of hardware configurations and the optimization of software settings.

This granular control ensures that the MT5 platform operates at peak efficiency, adapting to the specific requirements of the broker’s trading environment.

4. Predictable Costs and Budgeting: Financial Peace of Mind

The financial aspect is a critical consideration for any forex broker. Dedicated servers offer predictable costs with fixed monthly fees, providing forex brokers with greater financial peace of mind.

This predictability allows for effective budgeting, eliminating the uncertainty associated with variable cloud pricing models. Brokers can allocate resources strategically, ensuring that the hosting environment aligns seamlessly with the demands of the MT5 platform without the risk of unexpected expenses.

In contrary, whilst cloud servers may seem as the cheapest hosting type to begin with, organizations realize within the first 3-4 months that the costs increase significantly; either because the free cloud credits period has ended, or due to the automatic scalability of cloud instances to cope with the increased traffic and compute requirements.

5. Enhanced Security Measures: Safeguarding Trader Assets

Security is paramount in the forex industry, where sensitive financial transactions occur in real-time. While cloud hosting providers implement robust security measures, dedicated servers offer an additional layer of control and security customization.

Forex brokers can implement better security protocols, including firewalls, encryption, and dedicated IP addresses, safeguarding the MT5 platform against potential cyber threats. This increased security is essential for protecting trader assets and maintaining the integrity of the trading platform.

6. Data Sovereignty and Compliance: A Global Perspective

For forex brokers operating on a global scale, data sovereignty is a critical consideration. Dedicated servers provide the flexibility to choose the physical location of servers, ensuring compliance with regional data protection regulations. This level of control over data residency is particularly beneficial in the forex industry, where adherence to international and local compliance standards is vital for building trust among traders and meeting regulatory requirements.

7. Scalability: Growing with Confidence

While scalability is often touted as a strength of cloud hosting, dedicated servers also offer the capability to scale infrastructure seamlessly. With the right provider, dedicated servers can be scaled up to accommodate increased loads, ensuring a seamless trading experience even during peak market hours.

Flexibility allows brokers to grow their client base and expand the capabilities of the MT5 platform without compromising on performance.

Summary: Elevating Forex Trading with High-performance Dedicated Servers

In the fiercely competitive landscape of Forex trading, the choice between dedicated and cloud servers for the MT5 platform is not merely a technical decision; it’s a strategic one. While cloud hosting offers scalability and flexibility, dedicated servers provide enhanced performance, great reliability, resource control, predictable costs, security, compliance advantages, and scalability without compromise.

By opting for dedicated servers, forex brokers can establish a robust foundation for their MT5 platform, offering traders the speed, stability, and security they demand.

In this article we help you understand the concept of a Hybrid Backup Solution, its benefits to organizations of any size and we compare key factors of local and cloud backup strategies.

Like most small- or medium-sized businesses, you probably already have a backup solution in place. That said, even though you may no longer be relying on manual backups, your existing backup solution may not have kept up with the times.

It’s been a few years now since businesses started switching from traditional backup policies to cloud-based backup. As the technology evolves, moving to cloud backup solutions seems the right thing to do. It’s not though.

In this article we will explain the concept of hybrid backup and its benefits to organizations of any size.

What is Hybrid Backup

Hybrid Backup is when combining both local and cloud solutions in your backup strategy.

One would think local backup is dead, however it does offer competitive advantages such as:

• Lightning-fast, simplified backup and restore
  
• Cost-effective in terms of bandwidth utilization
  
• Predictable cost vs. cloud backup cost spikes when inefficient backup policies are configured

However, businesses nowadays do not have all digital assets in one place. Some may be on-premise (accounting, payroll software, file server) whilst ERP systems, Google Drive or Microsoft 365 data are on cloud.

Additionally, organizations under regulatory compliance (banks, forex brokers, health institutions, etc) may be required to have sensitive data hosted in accredited, multi-certified data centers. In this case the cloud backup option seems like the right fit versus a local backup policy.

Let’s take a closer look and compare Local and Cloud Backup features based on several factors.

6 Things to Consider When Choosing Between Local vs. Cloud Backup

Consideration	Cloud Backup	Local Backup
Cost	Whilst it can be cheap to start, costs can significantly grow over short time as the data volumes grow.	Purchasing hardware for on-premise backup can be expensive, especially on disk-based products. The cheapest local backup option is, still, the tape products.
Scalability	Storage is, essentially, unlimited or at least the company does not need to worry about capacity to accommodate future data growth.	Organizations need to forecast needs in order to accommodate sufficient storage.
Accessibility	Most cloud backup solutions offer an easy-to-use panel to manage and access the data. Depending on the size of backup and the source server’s connectivity, the backup process time can vary.	Unless there is a disaster on the site where the backup hardware reside, its relatively easy to access backup data on-premise. Speed of data transfer depends on the disks and RAID configuration. Tape backups are usually the slowest.
Security	Most reputable cloud backup providers claim to be safe, however end-to-end security is still a concern for all cloud providers to achieve in the future.	Local backup is considered secure, however if we are talking about hardware connected on the public internet, local backup method is still exposed to cyber attacks and other threats.
Management	Usually, cloud backup solutions come as Managed, meaning the provider takes care of the on-going management, maintenance, etc.	Organizations may choose to handle local backups administration through its own IT staff or outsource it.
Recovery	Whilst failover to a disaster recovery platform is relatively easy, dealing large volume data can make the recovery process very slow.	Recovering in a local backup scenario is considered to be fast as the infrastructure is connected on the same network. However, in case there is a disaster on site, local backup may also be affected making it impossible to recovery anything.

Why Choosing a Hybrid Backup Solution

We live in an era where organizations invest a lot of human and financial capital to cope with the complex topic of data management and security.

Maintaining two parallel solutions (local and cloud) for data backup is definitely not an option, so here is where Hybrid Backup solutions come in play.

Hybrid Backup platforms merge the best features of cloud and local backup. In many ways, this offers the best of both worlds:

• Simple, fast recovery from local backup when original hardware is available
  
• Maintaining a copy in the cloud can be proven a great decision in case there is a catastrophic event on-site.
  
• Ability to backup everything on cloud whilst requesting backup data to be physically shipped to you, on-premise.
  
• Ensures compliance with regulatory guidelines even if the on-premise infrastructure does not meet the necessary requirements – choose a cloud backup provider who possess compliance certifications such as GDPR, PCI, HIPAA.

To summarize, the biggest benefit of hybrid backup solutions is the enhanced redundancy. Data stored somewhere are trash unless you can recover them. The hybrid backup solution ensures that if the on-premise backup hardware fail, recovery can start from the cloud storage. Additionally, in the case of having to recover Terrabytes of data over a slow network connection, recovery from local backup would be your preferred option.

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In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing cPanel and WHM on your AlmaLinux 8 Server.

Often paired together, cPanel control panel is amongst the most popular web-based platforms for website and hosting management, whilst WHM is a server management tool used to manage multiple cPanel accounts.

In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing cPanel and WHM on your AlmaLinux 8 Server.

Prerequisites

In order to follow this guide, you will need the following:

1. AlmaLinux 8 freshly installed on your server
2. Minimum 1 GB RAM and minimum 20 GB disk space (read official hardware requirements by cPanel)
3. Shell access to your AlmaLinux 8 machine with a root-privileged user
4. cPanel/ WHM license (15-day trial period if this is a new installation of cPanel & WHM)

Steps to Install cPanel on AlmaLinux 8

For all following commands we assume you are logged in with root user. If not, switch to root account using command sudo -i

Step 1: Disable Firewall

It is advised that you disable the firewall on your AlmaLinux server. Run the following command to save the current firewall rules to file, and then disable firewall.

root@localhost:~$ iptables-save > ~/firewall.rules
root@localhost:~$ systemctl stop firewalld.service && systemctl disable firewalld.service

Step 2: Disable SELinux

Since SELinux is incompatible with cPanel & WHM, you must disable it before you can proceed.

Update the contents of the /etc/selinux/config file to set the SELINUX parameter to disabled.

Use the command nano /etc/selinux/config to edit the file.

The expected contents of the file are as follows:

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
# strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Save and close the file.

Now execute the following command to disable SELinux on your environment without requiring immediate server restart:

root@localhost:~$ setenforce 0

Step 3: Set FQDN Hostname

It is important that you have set a Fully Qualified Domain Name as your server’s hostname. This will be your cPanel’s server hostname, the one you will be using to access WHM and cPanel panels from your browser.

Run the following command:

root@localhost:~$ hostnamectl set-hostname mycpanel.mydomain.com

To ensure your hostname is persistent after server restarts, edit the following file and enter your desired hostname. Then save & close the file.

root@localhost:~$ nano /etc/hostname

IMPORTANT: Your server’s hostname must be resolving to the IP address of your server. You can do so by creating a DNS “A” record from within your Domain/DNS registrar portal.

Step 4: Install necessary packages

In order for the installation script for cPanel & WHM to run successfully, Perl must be installed. Run the following command to install Perl.

root@localhost:~$ yum install perl curl wget -y

Step 5: Download & Run cPanel Installer

Run the following command to fetch and run the cPanel & WHM installation script.

root@localhost:~$ cd /home && curl -o latest -L https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest && sh latest

This should take a while to complete. Once it does, cPanel & WHM have been successfully installed!

You can now access WHM GUI from your browser using the server hostname or server IP address in order to finish the necessary setup and fine tuning. The following hostnames and IPs are given as an example.

Step 6: Access WHM GUI to Finish Setup

Open your browser and enter any of the following addresses. If you have followed all above steps, all should work.

https://mycpanel.mydomain.com/whm

https://mycpanel.mydomain.com:2087

You can also replace the hostname part with your server’s IP address, for example https://192.168.1.100/whm

In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide for successfully installing .NET Framework 3.5 on your Windows Server 2019.

The .NET Framework 3.5 serves as a software development framework designed for building and running applications on Windows.

Most attempts to install .NET Framework 3.5 on a Windows Server 2019 fail because the server does not have the necessary source files. In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide for successfully installing .NET Framework 3.5 on your Windows Server 2019.

Common Use Cases of .NET Framework

The .NET framework is popular among the software developers and system administrators community for the following reasons:

• It helps developers integrating with many Microsoft technologies, including SQL Server, SharePoint, and Office.
• It’s compatible with a variety of programming languages and offers developers with a powerful stack of tools and libraries. Developers use the .NET framework to build mobile, desktop, web or server applications.
• The .NET Framework is popular as it’s free for everyone to use!
• System administrators and web developers can benefit from various features of .NET in order to increase the security, reliability and performance of the hosted applications.

Prerequisites

In order to follow this guide you will need:

• Windows 2019 OS installed
• Administrator privileged user

Steps to Install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2019

Step 1

Download the Windows Server 2019 installation media (.iso) on your Server and then mount it by right-clicking the .iso file and clicking “Mount”.

Step 2

Navigate to the mounted ISO drive and Copy the \Sources\SxS folder to a directory on your Windows server. For the purpose of this tutorial we copied the folder to D:\Sources\SxS.

Step 3

Open Server Manager and from the top right menu click on Manage and then click on Add Roles and Features from the dropdown list.

Step 4

In the Add Roles and Features Wizard click on Installation Type and select Role-based or feature-based installation, then click Next.

Step 5

In Server Selection, select the destination server for installation. Usually this is your local server.

Step 6

Then click on Features, and select .NET Framework 3.5 (includes 2.0 and 3.0) under .NET Framework 3.5 Features.

Step 7

Click on confirmation and then click on Specify an alternate source path.

Step 8

A new window will popup when you click “Specify Alternate Source Path” window. Insert the source path as shown below and then click ok.

Step 9

In the Confirm installation selections window, click Install.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2019. 

NetShop ISP, a leading provider of cutting-edge hosting and data center solutions, is excited to announce the beta release of Recipes, a powerful automation tool integrated into the myNetShop portal. Recipes empower customers to automate server tasks effortlessly using a range of pre-programmed actions, improving efficiency, user experience and simplifying server management.

NetShop ISP, a leading provider of cutting-edge hosting and data center solutions, is excited to announce the beta release of Recipes, a powerful automation tool integrated into the myNetShop portal. Recipes empower customers to automate VPS and Dedicated server tasks effortlessly using a range of pre-programmed actions, improving efficiency, user experience and simplifying server management.

Recipes: A Breakthrough in Server Automation

Recipes is a feature-rich offering within the myNetShop portal that simplifies server management by allowing users to automate various tasks using pre-programmed actions. This innovative tool is designed to meet the diverse needs of our customers, from tech-savvy IT professionals to business owners, without much server management experience, looking for user-friendly automation options.

Key features and benefits of Recipes include:

1. Seamless Automation: With Recipes, customers can automate a wide range of server tasks with just a few clicks, reducing the risk of human errors and streamlining operations.
   
2. Pre-Programmed Actions: Choose from a library of pre-configured automation actions, making it easy to set up, customize, and deploy automated processes tailored to your specific needs.
   
3. Time and Cost Savings: Automation leads to increased efficiency and reduces the time and resources required to manage servers, ultimately saving customers both time and money.
   
4. Reliability and Consistency: Automation eliminates variability in task execution, ensuring that server tasks are carried out consistently and reliably.
   
5. User-Friendly Interface: The myNetShop portal’s intuitive interface simplifies the automation process, enabling users to create and manage Recipes without the need for advanced technical, server administration skills.

NetShop ISP’s CEO, Stefano Sordini, stated, “The beta launch of Recipes reflects our commitment to delivering innovative hosting solutions that empower our customers to succeed in a dynamic digital landscape. Automation is no longer a luxury but a necessity, and Recipes is our answer to the growing demand for reliable and user-friendly server automation tools.“

How to Access Recipes

To access Recipes, NetShop ISP customers can simply log in to the myNetShop portal and navigate to the Server (Dedicated or Virtual) management page. Recipes can be found on the left-hand side Services menu. From there, they can explore the library of pre-programmed actions and execute Recipes tailored to their specific server management needs.

Beta Testing Phase: Your Feedback Matters

During the beta testing phase, NetShop ISP welcomes user feedback to further refine and enhance the Recipes feature. Customers are encouraged to provide insights, report any issues, and suggest improvements to help shape the final version of Recipes.

In this article, we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing Docker on your AlmaLinux 9 Server.

Docker is a platform that simplifies the deployment and management of applications using container technology by leveraging the Linux kernel. In this article, we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing Docker on your AlmaLinux 9 Server.

Prerequisites

In order to follow this guide, you will need shell access to an AlmaLinux 9 machine with a root privileged user.

Steps to Install Docker on AlmaLinux 9

Step 1

First, switch to the root user using the following command. Unless stated otherwise, all subsequent commands must be executed as the root user.

john@localhost:~ sudo -i

Step 2

Check for available package updates by using the following command.

root@localhost:~ dnf check-update --quiet

Step 3

Add the official Docker repository as follows:

root@localhost:~ dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Note that Docker does not provide a dedicated repository for AlmaLinux.

However, since AlmaLinux and CentOS are both downstream distributions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the CentOS repository can be used on AlmaLinux.

Step 4

Use the following command to install Docker CE:

root@localhost:~ dnf install --assumeyes --quiet docker-ce

Step 5

Start the Docker service and ensure it automatically starts on boot.

root@localhost:~$ systemctl enable --now docker

Step 6

Lastly, test that Docker works by creating a test container using the following command.

root@localhost:~ docker run --rm hello-world

Sample Output:

[root@server ~]# docker run --rm hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
70f5ac315c5a: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:dcba6daec718f547568c562956fa47e1b03673dd010fe6ee58ca806767031d1c
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Docker on your AlmaLinux 9 Server.

In this article we provide the top three reasons that make Hong Kong an ideal hosting location for both individuals and organizations.

Hong Kong is a perfect location for server hosting for various reasons. In this article we provide the top three reasons that make Hong Kong an ideal hosting location for both individuals and organizations.

Stable Infrastructure in the heart of Asia

Firstly, its geographical location in the heart of Asia makes it an ideal hub for businesses looking to expand their operations in the region. Hong Kong also boasts of highly stable infrastructure, including reliable power supply, advanced telecoms and internet connectivity, and top-notch data centers, which are designed to accommodate the latest technology.

Regulated and Business-friendly

Moreover, Hong Kong is renowned for having a highly favorable regulatory environment for businesses, making it an attractive destination for companies looking to set up new businesses or expand their existing operations in the area. With a transparent legal system and a reputation for being business-friendly, Hong Kong is widely considered one of the easiest places in the world to conduct business.

IT-skilled Workforce

Another significant advantage of hosting servers in Hong Kong is its highly skilled workforce, with a large pool of talented professionals in various fields, including IT and technology. This means that businesses can benefit from a highly skilled labor force, which can help them stay ahead of the competition by driving innovation and improving service quality.

Summary

In summary, Hong Kong’s excellent location, stable infrastructure, favorable regulatory environment, and skilled workforce make it an ideal location for server hosting. For businesses looking to expand their services in Asia, Hong Kong should be a top consideration as it offers a unique combination of advantages that are hard to find elsewhere.

Whether you are looking to start a new operation in Asia or simply want to improve the reliability and speed of your online services, consider deploying a Hong Kong Dedicated Server or a cheap Hong Kong VPS.

In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing XAMPP stack on your Windows Server 2022.

XAMPP is a free and open-source cross-platform web server stack package that includes Cross-Platform, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. It is one of the most popular cross-platform web servers, predominately used by developers to create and test their programs on a web server.

In case you are wondering, XAMPP terms comes from the initials of its stack components:

X refers to cross-platform
A stands for Apache
M for MariaDB or MySQL
P stands for PHP
P for Perl

In this article we will provide a step-by-step guide to installing XAMPP on your Windows Server 2022.

Prerequisites

In order to follow this guide you will need:

• Server with Windows 2022 edition installed
• Administrator access or any other User with administrative privileges

Easy Steps to Install XAMPP on Windows Server

Step 1. In order to install XAMPP on Windows Server, you first need a XAMPP installer or setup file. You can download the XAMPP installer from the official Apache Friends website. Choose your desired version and click Download (64 bit).  

Step 2. Once the XAMPP installer has been downloaded to your system, right-click on it and then click Run as administrator to begin the installation wizard.  

Step 3. Click Next to proceed with the installation process.

Step 4. On the Select Components page, you can check the components you wish to install and uncheck those that you don’t. The already selected greyed out components are necessary for the XAMPP installation and therefore cannot be unchecked. Once complete, click Next.

Step 5. On the Installation Folder page, select the folder where you want to install XAMPP and click Next. It is recommended that you do not change the directory and continue the installation process with the default location.

Step 6. On the Language page, select the language that you want to use in the XAMPP control panel. Here, English is set as the default. Then click Next.

Step 7 (final) The setup is now ready to install XAMPP on your Windows Server. Click Next.

The installation will begin on your system.

Once it’s complete, it will ask ‘Do you want to start the Control Panel now?’, if you tick this box, the XAMPP server control panel will be automatically launched once it has been installed. Otherwise you can launch the XAMPP server from the Windows start menu as shown in the screenshot below.

NOTE: Once XAMPP control panel opens, you will see that services are not running by default. Click Start on those you wish to start running.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed XAMPP on your Windows Server!