In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenVPN on a Debian VPS.
A VPN (short for Virtual Private Network) allows you to connect securely to the internet, a public network (such as free wifi at the airport), or any other public area. VPN also allows users to share data remotely through public networks. VPN is also often required in order to be able to access your corporate or office or home server resources. You can bypass filters and unblock location-restricted websites with a VPN.
Through a VPN, you can browse the internet anonymously – it allows you to access websites and web application in complete anonymity. This helps keep you protected while browsing online, which is becoming more and more important in today’s age of tracking and analytics. Let’s get started with the installation.
Redis is an in-memory data structure store primarily used as a database and cache. Redis supports different kinds of abstract data structures such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, hyper logs, bitmaps, and spatial indexes. The Redis package that is included in the default CentOS repositories is pretty outdated, so installing from the source code will ensure that we have the latest version of Redis installed on our system. Let’s begin with the installation.
MariaDB is a free and open-source, backwards-compatible, enhanced and drop-in replacement of the popular MySQL database management server software. It is very fast, stable, and scalable, making this database server ideal for almost everyone, which is why it’s one of the most used database servers in the world. Let’s get started with the installation.
Boonex Dolphin is a popular social networking platform and web application that allows you to create easy-to-use community and social media oriented websites. It’s open-source, and thanks to its design and customization-oriented nature, you can make your site unique to suit your ideas. Let’s get started with the installation.
Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is a web-based open source business software including a number of business applications for Sales, Website/eCommerce, Project and Warehouse management, CRM, billing, accounting, Human Resources, Marketing and many more additional modules developed by the community. Odoo comes in two editions, Community edition, which is free, and Enterprise edition. In our case, we will install and use the Community edition of Odoo.
Subversion is an open source version control system which helps you keep track of files and folders collection. Whenever you do some change, such as adding or deleting a file or a folder that is managed with Subversion, these changes are committed to your Subversion repository and as a result, a new revision in your repository is created and it reflects these changes. You can, at any time you wish, go back and check the contents of the revisions made previously, and even revert back to a previous snapshot. This makes developing projects much easier to follow in a team, as well as making it safer in case a mistake is made.
Yarn is a Javascript package manager, serving as an alternative to NPM. It is an open-source project and was built by a team at Facebook. There are many advantages when using Yarn, such as:
SQLite is a software library that provides a relational database management system (RDBMS). It can work as a database engine for small sized websites as well as large websites and projects, and it comes with a lot of useful features. The maximum size of a SQLite database is about 140 terabytes, making it future proof as well. Used by millions of users around the world, including some of the well-known companies such as Google, Facebook, Adobe, Microsoft and others, it is the most widely deployed database engine. Let’s begin with the installation.
Jetty is free and open source, Java HTTP (Web) server and Java Servlet container similar to Tomcat, GlassFish and WildFly. It provides support for SPDY, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS, and many other integrations. It is often used for machine to machine communications within larger software frameworks. Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production, such as Yahoo Hadoop Cluster, Google AppEngine, Yahoo, Zimbra, Eclipse, and many more. It can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. Let’s get started with the installation.
GitLab is an open source application that allows a team or developer to manage their project on their own servers – it’s an alternative to GitHub.