January 31, 2022

Design and Web team summary – 14 January 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. Why certified? This iteration …

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How to Install Smartctl on Ubuntu 20.04

Introduction The operating system has the option of being able to check the hard drive and its current state, automatically notifying the user if the failure rate increases through the Smartmontools. This is a package of 2 programs: smartctl and smartd. Smartctl allows control to self-monitor, analyze, report on ATA-3 and other hard drives and …

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How to Install and Configure HAProxy on Ubuntu 20.04

HAProxy or High Availability Proxy, is a well-known open-source TCP/HTTP load balancer and proxy solution which is able to handle a lot of traffic. HAProxy consumes a very low amount of memory, and it is commonly used to improve the performance of servers by distributing the workload across multiple servers to handle a large number …

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