--- title: "Systems" url: https://www.stackscale.com/blog/category/systems/ type: term taxonomy: category taxonomy_label: "Category" count: 52 lang: en --- # Systems ## Latest entries - [Linux enters a new phase: security, digital sovereignty and Artificial Intelligence](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/linux-enters-a-new-phase-security-digital-sovereignty-and-artificial-intelligence/) — Linux has been associated with performance, stability and scalability for decades. It makes sense. A large part of the Internet, cloud infrastructure, supercomputing, telecommunications, embedded syst... - [Protecting and Controlling Information: It’s More Than Just Backups](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/protecting-and-controlling-information-its-more-than-just-backups/) — In today’s increasingly digital business landscape, data protection goes far beyond having internal documents written down or performing routine backups. To comply with European Union cybersecurity re... - [The Linux Kernel surpasses 40 Million lines of code: A historic nilestone in Open-Source software](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/linux-kernel-surpasses-40-million-lines-code/) — The Linux kernel, the backbone of countless open-source operating systems, has achieved an impressive milestone: surpassing 40 million lines of code . This achievement, reached with version 6.14 rc1,... - [Take Your WordPress Blog to the Next Level: How to Handle 100,000 Daily Visitors Without Breaking a Sweat](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/take-your-wordpress-blog-to-the-next-level/) — The growth of a WordPress blog can be an exciting journey, but it also comes with significant challenges in terms of infrastructure and performance. Reaching 100,000 daily visitors doesn’t happen over... - [19 popular web hosting control panels](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/popular-web-hosting-control-panels/) — Web hosting control panels are a must-have for system administrators and web hosting providers nowadays . That is why we have created a list of the most popular web hosting control panels. Control pan... - [Harlequin: An innovative tool for managing databases from terminal](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/harlequin-databases-terminal/) — In the world of data management, having efficient and flexible tools can make a significant difference in the performance of any technical team. Harlequin , a SQL integrated development environment (I... - [31 popular Linux distributions](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/popular-linux-distributions/) — In the following list, we have gathered some of the most popular Linux distributions and some growing distros too. GNU/Linux operating systems are Unix-like and open source, and based on the Linux ker... - [Hypervisors: definition, types and solutions](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/hypervisors/) — Hypervisors are an essential part of the technology supporting cloud computing. There are two types of hypervisors — type 1 or bare-metal and type 2 or hosted, and numerous solutions in the market. In... - [High Availability WordPress: 12 key aspects](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/high-availability-wordpress-website/) — This guide on how to achieve a High Availability WordPress website addresses the main aspects to consider to ensure high availability, performance and resilience for a WordPress corporate website or W... - [Scheduling tasks with cron and crontab in Linux](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/cron-crontab-linux/) — Cron is a time-based job scheduler used for automating and scheduling repetitive tasks, periodical collection of data, alerts, etc. The cron daemon or crond allows users to manage and run tasks automa... - [AlmaLinux, an alternative downstream of RHEL](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/almalinux/) — AlmaLinux is a free, open source Linux distribution, created by CloudLinux and supported both by CloudLinux and other sponsors. It is focused on long-term stability and governed by the community; with... - [What is a man in the middle attack?](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/man-in-the-middle-attack/) — A man in the middle attack is a security attack during which an attacker enters a communication between two parties undetected, redirecting data to pass through a node he controls. It is a type of ses... - [5 steps to technically succeed in your Black Friday Strategy](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/technical-black-friday-strategy/) — Preparing your eCommerce Black Friday strategy? Keep in mind these 5 simple steps to ensure your eCommerce site can make the most of this campaign . With consumers getting more and more sophisticated... - [Hardware and software load testing](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/hardware-software-load-testing/) — In computing, load testing is a type of performance test used to simulate concurrent user visits and interactions in an environment or site to verify whether it can handle both expected and high load... - [Plesk: features, releases and licenses](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/plesk/) — Plesk is the most popular commercial web hosting control panel on the market . It is actively developed by Plesk International GmbH, under a proprietary license, and its last release is Plesk Obsidian... - [7 Types of performance tests](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/types-of-performance-tests/) — Performance tests help measure diverse aspects of web applications, sites and environments, in order to guarantee they are fast, stable and scalable. There are diverse types of performance tests, such... - [Hardware and software stress testing](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/hardware-software-stress-testing/) — In computing, stress testing is a type of performance test used to determine the stability and reliability of systems and applications. Also known as “endurance testing” or “torture testing”, it is pa... - [3 Types of storage: file, block and object](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/types-of-storage/) — There are different types of storage — file storage, block storage and object storage, for different needs and use cases. Therefore, as data is one valuable asset nowadays, organizations must carefull... - [Which OpenVPN clients to use and how to install them](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/openvpn-clients/) — The OpenVPN clients we recommend at Stackscale are: an easy to install OpenVPN package for Linux, the open source OpenVPN client for Windows and the open source TunnelBlick solution for Mac OS. OpenVP... - [Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI): benefits and workloads](https://www.stackscale.com/blog/hci-hyperconverged-infrastructure/) — Hyperconvergence is an IT infrastructure aiming to reduce data center complexity . It does so by combining computing, storage, networking and management capabilities in a single system. In addition to... ...and 32 more.