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What is VPS hosting and do you need it?

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtualised server with a fixed share of processor and memory that no other user can consume. It comes with root access, so you can install software and change settings at the operating system level. Unless you choose a…

How to check system uptime in Linux

Run uptime to see how long a Linux server has been running since its last boot. Adding -p, as in uptime -p, gives a plain reading such as up 12 days, 3 hours. Run last reboot to list past restarts, with the newest at the top. The first number in /proc/uptime…

Build an automated mail responder with n8n

Build the responder in n8n as a chain of nodes: an inbox trigger over IMAP, a Markdown converter, a DeepSeek summariser, a GPT-4o-mini classifier, an OpenAI writer, a DeepSeek reviewer and a Send Email node. Emails classed as company information requests pull…

How to clear cache and free memory in Linux

Run sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches as root to clear the page cache, dentries and inodes in one step. Writing 1 instead clears only the page cache, and 2 clears only dentries and inodes. Compare the buff/cache figure from free -h before and after to…

How to check your Windows version in Command Prompt

Open Command Prompt and type ver to see the version number on one line. The systeminfo command returns a full summary including the edition, build number and system type. The command wmic os get Caption, Version, BuildNumber prints a short table, though…

How to schedule automatic server reboots with cron

Run sudo crontab -e and add the line 0 2 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now to reboot daily at 02:00. Use the full path to shutdown, because cron runs with a minimal environment. Running sudo crontab -l confirms the entry was saved. After the scheduled time, search…

Managing your VPS with Claude Code

Install Claude Code on a Linux VPS with Anthropic's native installer script, then run claude from the directory you want it to work in. Claude Code reads your real logs and configuration files, so its fixes suit your server. Typical jobs include diagnosing…

How to fix WordPress Images not displaying

Open the image's File URL from Media, Library in a browser, and re-upload the file if it returns a 404 error. Wrong permissions also hide images, so set upload folders to 755 and files to 644. The Better Search Replace plugin can swap old HTTP image addresses…

How to set up SSH agent

Start the agent on Linux or macOS by running eval on the output of ssh-agent -s, or set the ssh-agent service to Automatic in an administrator PowerShell on Windows. Load a key with ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 and enter its passphrase once. The agent then…

How to install Ghost on cPanel using Node.js

In cPanel, open Setup Node.js App and create an application with a Ghost-supported Node.js version, an app root and a URL. Over Secure Shell (SSH), activate the app's environment and run npm install ghost-cli@latest -g, then ghost install local --no-setup in…