There is a lot of conflicting information out there on how to create a swapfile correctly. Although these guides (should) all work perfeclty fine, I spent the time to research and find out what is actually the most correct.

In summary: make sure to use the dd command to create the swapfile, and create an fstab entry that looks similar to /swapfile none swap sw 0 0. In this article, I will go more in-depth into the correct steps to create a swapfile on Linux, and explain each step.

After switching from NGINX to Caddy on all of my websites, I have come to the conclusion that Caddy is the best webserver in existence. With automatic HTTPS, a simple configuration file, and more, Caddy is just the best webserver overall for general use.

In Linux, processes cannot bind to privileged ports (<=1024) unless they are running as root. Here’s how to allow any process to bind to privileged ports.

You can run the GUI version of checkra1n on non Debian-based distributions.