The Ubuntu Server 16.04 image on Cloud Servers has been just updated to deliver the latest upgrades included. As the image is one of the most popular choices for cloud servers we’ve refreshed it to Ubuntu 16.04.4 which is the latest version of the 16.04. Read More
With the recent launch of Ubuntu 18.04 on Friday, one more longly anticipated release came to world – LXD version 3.0.
Test version of LXD 3.0 were already around for a few months, promising a plenty of new features like better migration or clustering and more, but let’s see which of those made it to the final. Read More
New server operating system image is now available on Cloud Servers:
Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Release date: April 27th 2018
Linux Kernel version: 4.15
Read the full article about the new release.
Bionic Beaver – the next long term release of the most popular Linux distribution has just been released. Read More
In the following article you will find a few basic command for backups on PostgreSQL databases.
You can simply dump a database into a SQL file by using pg_dump
pg_dump db_name > /var/backups/db_name.sql
If you want to compress the output you can pipe the stream to gzip and the save it in a file:
pg_dump db_name | gzip > /var/backups/db_name.sql.gz
Recent reports raised attention on a botnet spreading around, targeting Mikrotik RouterOS devices and Cloud Routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in HTTP and SMB, as well as password brute-forcing. Read More
We were happy to join as a hosting partner at the most inspiring hackathon, organized by students.
Debian 9.4 was publicly realeased. and a few days it was made available for Cloud Servers. The new version focuses primarily on security improvements and fixes.
The free certificate authority Let’s Encrypt announced the long expected wildcard certificate support.
We are proud to take part in one specifically awesome and inspiring event this week. Hack30xTUES is a school hackathon organized by the students from the Technological School Electronic Systems in Sofia, but this years fourth edition is even a bigger event. Sharing the year of the 30th anniversary of the school and promoting three equally interesting topics for the projects, Hack30XTUES is an extraordinary gathering of the best young IT talents.
Sometimes you might need to remotely access a MySQL database. As a security measure, by default that is prohibitted, but on your own responsibility we’ll show you how you can make it work.
There are two changes you should make on a clean MySQL installation – first enable the MySQL server to listen on all networks and second to create an user allowed to connect from any client.
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This years fourth edition of HackTUES is just a few days away. The event gathers more than 200 students in four days of variety of technologies, awesome ideas, brilliant solutions and tons of fun. Hack 30xTUES will be open on March 15th and will immerse you in an astonishing fusion between the “Old school – New technologies” as the theme says. On Sunday, 45 teams of students from the Technological School Electronic systems in Sofia, will present their vision on the past, present and most of all the future of technologies.
CloudBalkan is proud to join again as hosting partner on the event, and this year will provide a few bits, byte or maybe terabytes of support for the teams.