Software Recommendations
Server Software
Monitoring software
- Munin – A networked monitoring tool that displays graphs about your server(s) performance.
- Netdata – Real-time monitoring statistics from your linux system(s) in one webpage! See demo at https://london.my-netdata.io/
Web-serving
- Nginx – A reverse proxy and web server. Very suitable for large websites.
- MariaDB – A drop-in replacement for Oracle MySQL. However take note that MariaDB offers much functionality that is not present in MySQL. As such once you migrate to MariaDB, you might have a lot of hard work to revert back to MySQL.
- CentMinMod – A script that eases the installation process for CentOS web servers. It has the ability to setup nginx, mysql and php + apc/memcache automatically.
- OwnCloud – Set up your own privatized cloud. It enables you to sync files between different compares to a central server.
- iRedMail – Pretty much fully automated installer that is used to setup a mail server (postfix, spamassassin, anti-spam and virus
Linux system tools
- NCDU – A command line disk usage analyzer with ncurses interface. Very useful to find out largest folders or files on your server with a useful total usage overview.
Suites
- PortableApps – Enables you to have a wide set of portable programs, very suitable to put on a USB and carry with you.
- Ninite – Let’s you download the most popular programs without that install automatically, stripped from any bloat such as adware.
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