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4/14/2025
What Is Mautic? (And How to Self-Host It)
Mautic is an open-source marketing automation platform that simplifies email campaigns, lead generation, and automated marketing. This guide covers how to self-host it on shared hosting or a VPS.
4/10/2025
What Is Mailcow? (And How to Host Your Own Email Server with It)
Mailcow is an open-source email server suite built on Docker that simplifies email hosting for individuals and businesses. In this article, you’ll learn what makes Mailcow unique and how to self-host it.
4/5/2025
What Is Sendy? (And How to Self-Host It)
Sendy is a self-hosted email newsletter application that works with Amazon SES for affordable email marketing. In this guide, you'll learn how to run it on shared hosting or a VPS.
4/1/2025
What Is Tor and How Does It Work?
Tor, short for “The Onion Router,” is a browser and network that anonymizes your online activity by sending it through multiple layers of encryption. In this article, we'll explain everything about it.
3/13/2025
Setting Up Tor Relay Nodes - A Complete Guide
In this guide, you’ll learn step by step how to set up, configure, and maintain a Tor relay, helping to build a freer, more privacy-friendly internet for everyone.
3/10/2025
What Are Denial of Service Attacks?
Denial of Service attacks can cripple even the most powerful servers by overwhelming resources with malicious traffic. Understanding these threats is the first step to protecting your business.
3/5/2025
The 18 Best Linux Benchmarking Scripts
Discover the 18 best Linux benchmarking scripts to evaluate your server's real-world performance (CPU, memory, storage, network, and more).
3/1/2025
How to Set Up BTCPay for Self-Hosted Crypto Payment Processing
Learn how to take control over your own crypto payment processing with BTCPay.
2/7/2025
What Is GitLab? (And How to Self-Host It)
Curious about GitLab and how it can simplify your development workflow? This article covers what GitLab is and how you can self-host it on your own server.
2/5/2025
SQL vs. NoSQL - Understanding Relational vs. Non-Relational Databases (and Their Respective Pros and Cons)
Should you store data in a table-based model or opt for a flexible, non-relational approach? This article clarifies the differences between SQL (relational) and NoSQL (non-relational) databases so you can pick the best option for your project.
2/2/2025
How to Archive, Compress, and Extract Files on Linux with Gzip, Zip, and Tar
Learn how to archive, compress and extract files in Linux using gzip, zip, and tar. Save space, speed up file transfers, and keep your data organized.