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It’s important to have a firewall set up on any computer. It helps protect against unwanted connections from the internet.
UFW is a firewall often used on Linux distributions; usually running as a default firewall. UFW is a front end for iptables and is easy to use when you are first learning about ...

Lynis is a great tool to help you with hardening your system. It’s an open source scanner that runs a bunch of tests that checks your system and it’s configuration. After it’s finished scanning, it will give you a score from 0-100 and give you recommendations to improve your hardening of your system ...

How to install an Apache server with PHP and Mariadb (mysql),
In order to host a website, you need to install a web server; Apache is a popular choice to run on Linux. If you want your site to be dynamic, you will also need to install a database such as Mariadb or Mysql and PHP. With this setup ...

If you want to have a .onion site, here is how to do it. I will make another post about why you should use a .onion site for privacy and anonymity reasons later.
It is fairly easy to set up the .onion site. If you have set up a website before then you will not have any problems with this. If you ...