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Backing up your website database before major changes or updates is important step, and there are many different ways to backup a database using GUI or CLI. In this article you will learn how to use a utility called mysqldump to backup a MySQL or MariaDB database. The same instructions work for both database engines. […]

Backing up your website periodically is a very important procedure to ensure stability and ability to roll back your site to a previous snapshot in case something went wrong. Backing up your website root directory (In Apache setups its called htdocs) into a zip file will make it easy to do so. To Backup you […]

If you use PuTTY or Solar-PuTTY on Windows, you might encounter an issue where numeric keybad (Numpad) doesn’t work with inline editors like vi or nano, fortunately this has an easy fix. The following steps can be taken to allow numpad to work properly with all your future SSH sessions. Start your PuTTY client, or […]