Databases
Install Redis 8.0 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 ships Redis 8.0 straight from the official repos, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds.…
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Install MySQL 8.4 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with both MySQL 8.4 and MariaDB 11.8 in its default repositories. If you need…
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Install Memcached on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Memcached is the caching layer behind most high-traffic PHP and Python applications. It stores key-value pairs in RAM,…
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Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Apache, MariaDB, PHP)
The LAMP stack is still the default starting point for most PHP-based web applications. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute…
Databases
Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
MariaDB 11.8.6 now ships in Ubuntu 26.04’s main archive. That’s a first. Previous Ubuntu releases kept MariaDB in…
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Install LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 8.5)
Most production web stacks on Ubuntu run Nginx over Apache these days. Nginx handles static content and reverse…
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Install Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Apache is still the workhorse behind most of the internet. Despite Nginx gaining ground over the past decade,…
Monitoring
Configure Graylog 7 Behind Nginx Reverse Proxy with Let’s Encrypt SSL
Graylog listens on port 9000 over plain HTTP by default. For anything beyond a lab, that’s not acceptable.…
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How to Upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 LTS (In-Place, Tested)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS still has security support until April 2027, but Noble Numbat (24.04) ships enough improvements to…
Containers
Docker vs CRI-O vs Containerd: Container Runtimes Compared (2026)
Kubernetes stopped supporting Docker as a runtime back in 2022. Four years later, the container runtime landscape has…
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Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Step by Step)
Upgrading from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 takes about 15 minutes on a decent connection. The process replaces 700+…
How To
Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Post-Install Hardening)
A fresh Ubuntu 26.04 server boots with a minimal footprint: unattended security updates enabled, sudo-rs replacing the traditional…