VPS

Marine fuels testing company VPS announced on Monday, 28 September, that it will host its Fuel Management Course in Singapore on 2 to 3 November. The course is aimed at professionals in the shipping and bunker industry seeking training on fuel quality, testing and management practices. The announcement comes as fuel quality remains a key concern for ship operators worldwide.

A new tutorial walks through installing DNSControl, an open-source tool for managing DNS records across multiple providers, on an Ubuntu VPS and configuring it to control PowerDNS servers. The guide covers what DNSControl is, the installation steps, and how to connect it to PowerDNS, aimed at administrators who want to automate and centralize DNS management from the command line.

A step-by-step tutorial for deploying Nagios Core on an Ubuntu virtual private server has been published, covering system preparation, web access setup, plugins, and host and service configuration through to security hardening. The commands target Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, with notes that they work similarly on 20.04 and 24.04, giving administrators a practical open-source server monitoring option.

A technology writer argues that self-hosted Odoo Community Edition is only worthwhile for a family of four in one specific scenario: when a home server or VPS already exists and the family wants multiple household functions — budgeting, shared expenses, inventory, a project board and contacts — consolidated in a single database. The piece frames ERP software as overkill for most households unless that infrastructure is already in place.

A step-by-step guide for deploying Ruby on Rails applications on a virtual private server is drawing attention among developers. The tutorial covers the practical DevOps work of getting a Rails app running on self-managed infrastructure, a topic of ongoing interest to programmers who prefer owning their hosting stack rather than relying on managed platforms.

A new tutorial explains how to install and run a Mastodon server on AlmaLinux, a Linux distribution, on a virtual private server. The guide describes Mastodon as a social network similar to X/Twitter but without a central owner, and walks through the setup steps. It is a practical resource for people interested in self-hosting their own social media platform.