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2026-09-22
LAMP and LEMP are two classic stacks for PHP sites: Linux, a web server, a database, and PHP. They differ by the web server: LAMP uses Apache, LEMP uses Nginx. In practice the more important difference is how the web …
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You can get email on your domain in three ways: forwarding via Cloudflare (part 1), with a mail provider (part 2) or on your own Mailcow server (part 3). This part is about choosing between the last two: paying a service …
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BitTorrent — a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol created by Bram Cohen in 2001. Unlike HTTP or FTP, where everyone downloads a file from a single server, in BitTorrent each participant simultaneously downloads and …
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Rsync — a utility for copying and synchronizing files, the standard tool for Linux and Unix administrators. Its main feature is delta transfer: if a file already exists on the receiving side, rsync transmits only the …
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WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) — an extension of the HTTP protocol that turns a web server into a network storage: files can not only be downloaded but also uploaded, renamed, moved, and locked while …
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S3 (Simple Storage Service) — Amazon’s object storage service, launched in 2006. Its API has over time become an industry standard: today “S3” often refers not to a specific Amazon service but to the protocol …
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When you need to work with files directly on the server — open documents, save projects, keep shared departmental folders — you use network file system protocols. There are two: SMB, familiar to Windows users, and NFS, …
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TFTP and SCP do not compete with FTP and SFTP for the role of the primary file-transfer method. They are narrow tools: the first is needed for network equipment and network booting, the second — for fast copying between …
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FTPS and SFTP differ by a single letter, and they are often confused. In fact they are two different protocols with different designs. FTPS is regular FTP with TLS encryption added. SFTP is a standalone protocol that …
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) — one of the oldest Internet protocols. Its current specification, RFC 959, was adopted in 1985, and the protocol has changed little since. FTP is still encountered at hosting providers, in …
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