A few years ago Parse.com backend service was a big deal . It’s pure simplicity made it quite popular for mobile and web applications backend, but since 2017 the service was shut down, and Parse Server was born as an open source, self hosted solution.
In this article we’ll provide you the steps to setup your own Parse Server on CloudBalkan. You can use it as a simple yet very scalable and robust backend for your applications.
FreeBSD 11.1 is the addition to the images for cloud servers. The operating system designed for servers and networking now meets the power of the cloud computing.
The open source operating system project with more than 25 years of story is proven in terms of stability and reliability. Considered as a great choice for servers, FreeBSD is definitely a wonderful new addition in CloudBalkan.
Keep an eye on the new category in our blog, where soon you’ll be able to find a lot of interesting guides, tips and applications for your FreeBSD cloud servers.
For years SSH has prooven to be extremly useful and flexible protocol.
The forwarding option in SSH is another example for its versatility. Using it you can easily forward a local TCP port to another on the remote machine. Read More
This guide will help you setup a .htaccess file that restricts access to a page only to specific IP addresses. You might find that useful if you want to protect you web platform adminstration panel or some web tools like phpMyAdmin. Read More
If you need to quickly replace a string in a file from Linux command line, ‘sed’ will quickly become one of your best friends.
To replace the string “cloud” with “balkan” in the file demo1.txt
sed -i -- 's/cloud/balkan/g' demo1.txt
You can aswell replace string in multiple files by using any file masks:
sed -i -- 's/cloud/balkan/g' * sed -i -- 's/cloud/balkan/g' *.txt
Mikrotik Cloud Hosted Router is now available on CloudBalkan. Powerful cloud based network appliances can now be used for routing and switching, cloud based network load balancing, firewalls and plenty of other network applications.
Swap is virtual memory mechanism that can provide additional system operating memory. When the system needs to free up some memory for applications, it temporarily moves data from the RAM to a storage device. Swaping is important for the operating system, but as storage drives are slower than the RAM memory, this process can sometime slow down a system. That’s why sometimes removing swap is neccessary.
Two of the most popular command line tools you can use to test your storage drive performance are hdparm or dd.
Hdparm is a nice tool focused specificaly on storage drives information and benchmarking. Read More
It’s time for a little fun. In this tutorial we will provide you the instructions on how to run a Counter Strike Source server on a Ubuntu 16.04 Cloud Server.
For this tutorial we are using the Cloud Server 2GB , although smaller instances should handle one game server absolutely fine aswell.
The choice of a servers distribution is more often driven by experience and background with one, but anyway taking a look at what were the most frequently used distros for the past year is always interesting and useful.