As we run more and more websites on our server, the additional traffic also increases, leading to additional workload. This excess load is largely caused by the traffic generated by the robots. In this description, we will look at two ways to keep these useless robots away from our websites.

With the help of LAMP systems, we can run dynamic web pages on our server or even on our home computer. In this description, we create a LAMP server for Debian 10 (Buster) with the following components: MariaDB 10.3.18, Apache 2.4.38, PHP 7.3 and phpMyAdmin 4.9.1. On this page we install the Apache, MariaDB and PHP components.

An important consideration when building a home computer or server is the data transfer rate of the machine's hard drives. If the speed of the drives in the machine is slow, it will severely degrade overall performance, even if the processor and / or RAM represent a stronger category. It is possible to measure this with all operating systems, it is not different with Linux systems. In this description, we test the speed of our HDD in several ways to get a more comprehensive picture of the status of our devices.

In this tutorial we will install a minimum Debian 10 (Buster) server, which consists of the Debian 10 base system and some basic configuration. This installation will be the basis for later LAMP and perfect server tutorials. On this page, we download the Debian 9 (Stretch) installation package and follow the steps of the installation program.