I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

Welcome, dear readers, to the final piece in our long-running "Web Served" series. Starting last November, Ars has been helping to shed light on the fun world of DIY Web hosting—we started with ...

What a week. I’ve run into some interesting challenges setting up a new combination weblog/magazine site called VarLinux.org, a nonprofit portal dedicated to serving the VAR and channel communities.

JQuery is a JavaScript framework and library that adds CSS-like selectors, animations and handy functions to your Web programming arsenal. When jQuery scripts fail to work on your Web server, chances ...

The No. 1 priority for my web server was simplicity; I just wanted a basic web site that displays a "Hello World" message. I wanted to verify that a VM on Oracle Cloud would support an application ...