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Ubuntu Server Cookbook

By : Uday Sawant
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Ubuntu Server Cookbook

By: Uday Sawant

Overview of this book

Ubuntu is one of the most secure operating systems and defines the highest level of security as compared other operating system. Ubuntu server is a popular Linux distribution and the first choice when deploying a Linux server. It can be used with a $35 Raspberry Pi to top-notch, thousand-dollar-per-month cloud hardware. Built with lists that there are 4 million + websites built using Ubuntu. With its easy-to-use package management tools and availability of well-known packages, we can quickly set up our own services such as web servers and database servers using Ubuntu. This book will help you develop the skills required to set up high performance and secure services with open source tools. Starting from user management and an in-depth look at networking, we then move on to cover the installation and management of web servers and database servers, as well as load balancing various services. You will quickly learn to set up your own cloud and minimize costs and efforts with application containers. Next, you will get to grips with setting up a secure real-time communication system. Finally, we’ll explore source code hosting and various collaboration tools. By the end of this book, you will be able to make the most of Ubuntu’s advanced functionalities.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
15
Index

Introduction


A web server is a tool that publishes documents on a network, generally the Internet. HTTP is called a language of the Internet and web servers, apart from browsers, are native speakers of HTTP. Web servers generally listen on one or multiple ports for requests from clients and accept requests in the form of URLs and HTTP headers. On receiving a request, web servers look for the availability of the requested resource and return the contents to the client. The term web server can refer to one or multiple physical servers or a software package, or both of them working together.

Some well known web servers include the Apache web server, Microsoft IIS, and Nginx. Apache web server is the most popular web server package available across platforms such as Windows and Linux. It is an open source project and freely available for commercial use. Nginx, which is again an open source web server project, started to overcome the problems in a high-load environment. Because of its lightweight...