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Personal Links

Here you have my personal bookmarks. They have proven useful for me.

Menu

• Server OS
• Services to run
• Automatization
• Linux Management tools
• Monitoring
• Virtualization
• troubleshooting
• Online Services
• Security (Personal and all-round)

Server OS

• Centos : RedHat Enterprise Linux clone. Open Source. YUM/DNF Package manager.
• Debian : Open source OS, good for servers. apt package manager.

Services to run

• GitLab : Open source git server
• NextCloud : Open source spin-off of owncloud, claiming improved security.
• OwnCloud : Open source suite of client-server software. Resembling dropbox, supports calendar, bookmarks, contacts, sync, ldap, ...
• OpenLDAP - ApacheDS - 389 Directory Server : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Services. The Open Source equivalent for Microsoft Active Directory. Highly configurable. Requires a certain knowledge of SSL/TLS and Unix.
• Apache httpd - LigHTTPD - NginX : Open Source Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Services. Especially NginX is my favourite.
• Dovecot : Open Source IMAP and POP3 server.
• Courier - Postfix : Open Source Mail Transmit Agent.
• BIND - POWERDNS : Both are open source Domain Name Service servers. Bind is the internet standard.
• MariaDB : Open source, alternative for MySQL, which is not fully open source anymore.
• MongoDB : Open source NOSQL database
• ElasticSearch : Open source, Search Engine.
• LogStash : Open source, Log server.
• Kibana : Open source, Visualization plugin for ElasticSearch.

Automatization

• Puppet : Open source, orchestration software.
• Ansible : Free, Open Source config and management software
• SaltStack : Open source, automation
• Chef : Open source, Automation
• Fabric : Open source, Fabric is a simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.

Linux Management Tools

• Virtualmin : Open source, management tool for virtual webservers, mailserver, ftp, ... Based on webmin
• Webmin : Open source Web interface for managing a Linux box.
• FreeIPA : Open source security appliance/ application highly advisable if you want to replace windows in your work environment.

Monitoring tools

• Zabbix : Open source lightweight monitoring tool. Highly customizable. Among the best.
• Nagios : Open source monitoring tool, Among the best

Virtualization

• Proxmox : Open source, Virtualization tool, Linux based, KVM, LXC
• Openstack : Open source, Virtualization tool, Linux based, KVM, LXC
• Docker : Open source software containerization platform.

Troubleshooting

• Personal space of Jean Tourrilhes - HP : WLAN Resource page maintained by Jean Tourrilhes and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.
• Speedof.me : Network speed meter. Speedtest.net may get priority traffic from ISP.
• ifconfig.io : Returns your IP in various configurations. Also works with cURL

Online Services

• Mail tester : Tests sent e-mails for possible blacklisting.
• Mconf : Mconf is an open source web conference system built on top of (and around of) BigBlueButton.
• Certbot : Previously letsencrypt, providing free, secure SSL/TLS certificates. Backed and trusted by a whole load of corporations
• Cloudflare : A free/paying service (US based) for increasing traffic speed, CDN, security.
• Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator : link says it all really
• Open Street Maps : Open source alternative to google maps. Suprisingly much better and versatilethen one would expect.
• Maphub : Open platform to create interactive maps, based on Open Street Map.

Security

• Torguard : Affordable nolog, secure VPN.
• Tor browser : Open source anonymous browser. Uses TOR network. Android also supports this
• L2P : Open source anonymizer for communications
• Gnu Privacy Guard : Encrypt, decrypt and identify. A security standard. Use this for mailing credentials or confidential information.
• VeraCrypt : Successor of TrueCrypt (which was effectively killed by malicious people)
• DNSTunnel : Instructions and script to tunnel all traffic over the DNS port (53). This is useful when you are behind a firewall that blocks specific ports going outside. Port 53 is usually open.
• Bitwarden : bitwarden is a self-hosted password manager. Why would you trust onepassword or others to host your passwords?