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Create a Free Tier Windows Virtual Machine in Azure

Azure free tier provides following free services for 12 months after one month for your free $200 credit: 750 hours B1S VM Linux and Windows Virtual machines 64GB x 1 Storage – 2 P6 SDDs 5 GB File Storage 250 GB SQL DB 15 GB Bandwidth (Data Transfer) etc
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Windows 10 Tips and Tricks

Here are some simple but effective windows tweaks, tips and tricks to streamline your windows computing experience. Here are list of my collections (still keep adding): 1. Fix High CPU Usage by Windows Software Protect Service (Sppsvc.exe) 2. Install Telnet Client 3. Check System Uptime 4. Hiding Windows Folder 5. 上帝模式一键开启 6. 历史问题一目了然 (Reliability Monitor) 7. 一Click锁定电脑 Other than WIN+L…
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Install Portainer to Manage Containers – Nginx, MySQL, WordPress

Portainer is a lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your different Docker environments (Docker hosts or Swarm clusters). It is meant to be as simple to deploy as it is to use. It consists of a single container that can run on any Docker engine (can be deployed as Linux container or a Windows native container). Portainer…
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Free Tier VPS Bench Comparison for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

All of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are providing some kind of free tier to the users. I am always wondering how those free tier VPS performance looks like. I did some bench work to test them out. Here is the method and result. Bench script: https://github.com/n-st/nench provides a nice bench.sh and a single command for you to run this…
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Forwarding Windows Event Logs to Syslog Server (Kiwi Syslog)

Centralizing your logs saves time and increases the reliability of your log data, especially for Windows machines. When Windows log files are stored locally on each server, you have to individually log into each one to go through them and look for any errors or warnings. It’s possible for a Windows server to forward its events to a “subscribing” server.…
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PFsense Configuration with Topology and Screenshots

pfSense is an open source routing and firewall software that is based on the FreeBSD distribution. The basic features including: pfSense Home Topology Static/default/dynamic routing Stateful firewall Network Address Translation (NAT) Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Domain Name System (DNS) Load balancing and so on. With many supported add-on packages, other advanced features including: Snort (for…
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Qualys Scanner Appliance and Qualys Guard Service Tips and Tricks

The Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated apps can simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications. Qualys Scanner Appliance is an option with the Qualys Cloud Platform. With the Qualys Scanner Appliance, you can easily…
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Install ProxMox 5.3 into VMware Workstation 14

Proxmox VE is a complete open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform, and easily manages high availability clusters and disaster recovery tools with the built-in web management interface. The enterprise-class features and the 100% software-based focus make Proxmox VE the perfect choice to virtualize…
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Kali Usage Tips and Tricks

Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. Kali contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering. Download Kali: https://www.kali.org/downloads/ Basic Configuration Videos:
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Running WordPress in the Docker of AWS EC2 Instance

Docker is a technology that allows you to build, run, test, and deploy distributed applications that are based on Linux containers. Docker is available on many different operating systems, including most modern Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, and even Mac OSX and Windows.If you are using Amazon EC2 already, you can launch an instance and install Docker to get started. Youtube…
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