In this article we will guide you through the Ubuntu 7.10 server edition installation process. If you have an old piece of hardware and would like to make it a server or you need a LAMP server where you can host your website you can easily setup the Ubuntu server edition and take advantage of one of the most popular Linux distributions.

You can download the Server edition from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download. Please make sure that you have selected the correct version and select the correct type of your system from the menus. As soon as you have the Ubuntu image downloaded burn it on a CD and you can begin the installation procedure. Put the Ubuntu 7.10 server CD into your CD-Rom and boot from it.

From the main screen select Install to the hard disk and press Enter. First you will be asked to choose your language. By default it is English and for this article we will use this option. So, select English and press Enter again. Then you will be asked for your location. Depending on the language that you have selected in the previous step a country is selected for you. We will use United States for this tutorial. Press Enter once again when you have your country selected. Next you will be asked if you would like to have your keyboard layout detected by the Ubuntu. It would be a good idea to perform this in order to have your keyboard properly set. Select “Yes” and you will be asked several questions. Based on your answers Ubuntu will suggest a keyboard layout for you. Most probably you will have US keyboard layout. However, you can always go back and manually configure your keyboard.

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Nowadays blogs platforms are one of the most widely used applications and the bloggers community is growing every minute. It was not a long time ago when blogs have been used for sharing only personal thoughts and experience. Today, blogs are used for almost any kind of websites.

Personally, I have seen commercial websites, newspapers, multi-author communities and many, many other kinds of websites based on a blog platform. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this. If you decide at some point that you can base your website on a blog platform you might find the following article interesting and might help you to increase your site traffic. Very often this is important if you decide to advertise some products or provide advertisement space on your website and earn some extra money.

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In this tutorial we will show you how to create a custom back up of your hosting account on Plesk.

The Plesk control panel provides a feature for automatic backup creation, however, very often this option is disabled by the hosting providers and only manual back up is possible. Happily, you should not be worried because it is quite easy to create your own back up just in a few clicks using a standard FTP client and the admin panel of your Plesk account.

Usually the website consists of files and database(s). In this tutorial we take care of both of them. For the files backup we will use a normal FTP client and the databases will be exported via the phpMyAdmin tool available via the Plesk control panel.

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First of all, it is important to explain how the database/database user names are formed. The names consist two parts — your cPanel username and the actual database/username name. For example — if your username is “user” and if you named your database “databasename” you should use:

user_databasename

Same for database username:

user_username

So, if you would like to access your database remotely you should add your IP to remote hosts list firs. This could be done via you cPanel -> MySQL database. You will see on the bottom of your page Access Hosts section.

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