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How to Fix“Cannot Load the ionCube PHP Loader – It Was Already Loaded” Error in PHP 8.1

If you’re managing a Plesk or CloudLinux server, you may have encountered the “cannot load the ionCube PHP loader” error: “Cannot load the ionCube PHP Loader – it was already loaded.” This typically occurs when ionCube Loader is configured to load more than once — usually from different PHP configuration files. Since ionCube is a Zend extension, PHP cannot load multiple instances at the same time, resulting in this error. In this guide, we’ll walk

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Sourav AJ November 3, 2025

How to Send Logs to Loki Using Fluent Bit

In this blog, we help you guide how to send logs into Loki using Fluent Bit and its official Loki output plugin. Fluent Bit is a lightweight log collector, processor, and forwarder, capable of ingesting logs from applications and delivering them to destinations like Loki. We’ll use the “forward” input plugin to receive logs and then configure Fluent Bit to send them into Loki. Dependencies Before starting, make sure you have: Scenario For more understanding, we

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Merin John November 3, 2025

How to Fix the Plesk Error: meta.xml was not found in archive

Customizing Plesk with a branded theme can enhance your client experience and reinforce your company identity. However, installing custom branding themes isn’t always straightforward. One common issue is the Plesk Error: meta.xml was not found in archive error. Understanding the Problem When you try to install a theme using the Plesk CLI: You might encounter: Even though your ZIP contains a meta.xml file, Plesk is unable to detect it. This typically happens because of incorrect

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Jishnu V October 31, 2025

How to use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

In this blog, we will focus on Kinesis Data Streams (KDS). Open the Kinesis Console 1. Go to the Amazon Kinesis Console 2. In the left-hand menu, choose Data Streams. 3. Click Create data stream. Create a Data Stream 1. Enter a name for your stream. 2. Choose Provisioned capacity. 3. Set the number of shards (1 is fine for testing). Each shard can handle up to 1 MB/s write and 2 MB/s read throughput.

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Sajna VM October 31, 2025

How to Install Apache Tomcat 10 on AlmaLinux

Apache Tomcat 10 is an open-source Java servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It provides a powerful and reliable environment to deploy and run Java-based web applications. In this guide, we’ll walk through installing and configuring Apache Tomcat 10 on AlmaLinux, a stable and secure RHEL-based distribution widely used for enterprise servers. The installation process on AlmaLinux is quite similar to that on Ubuntu, with a few differences in package management and service

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Sourav AJ October 24, 2025

How to Use AWS Glue to Move and Transform Data

Open AWS Glue Create a Database The database will store metadata about your tables. Create a Crawler A crawler scans your data source (like S3) and automatically builds a table in the Glue Data Catalog. When it finishes, you’ll see a new table under your Glue database. Create an ETL Job Now we’ll transform and move the data. AWS Glue will now extract, transform, and load your data to the target bucket. Check the Output

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Sajna VM October 24, 2025

How to Install and Configure Node Exporter on a Client for Prometheus Monitoring

Monitoring infrastructure is crucial for system administrators and DevOps teams. Prometheus, a powerful open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, is widely used for collecting and visualizing system metrics. However, to monitor a remote system, you need an agent running on that system and Node Exporter is Prometheus’ recommended tool for this job. Prerequisites Before proceeding: What is Node Exporter? It is a Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics. It runs on client machines and makes

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Jishnu V October 24, 2025

How to install and run Podman and Buildah on Rocky / AlmaLinux

Podman (short for pod manager) is an open source tool for developing, managing, and running containers. Developed by Red Hat engineers along with the open source community, Podman manages the entire container ecosystem using the libpod library. Podman helps you to run, build, manage, and debug OCI containers directly within your Kubernetes cluster. Its REST API socket allows remote applications to create and control containers on demand, while providing compatibility with the Docker API and

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Merin John October 23, 2025

How to Increase AWS Service Quotas

When you start building applications or infrastructure on AWS, you will quickly realize that your account has default limits (also called service quotas) for how many resources you can use: These quotas help AWS manage capacity fairly across users, but they can become a bottleneck as your workload scales. Elastic IP Quota Elastic IPs are static public IPv4 addresses that you can associate with EC2 instances, NAT Gateways, or Network Interfaces. They’re useful when: By

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Sajna VM October 17, 2025

How to Control Process Priority in Linux — Using nice and renice

On a busy Linux server, where multiple applications, services, or background jobs are running —competing for system resources is a natural consequence. You might face slowdowns, high CPU usage, or unresponsive services. To manage such situations, Linux provides built‑in tools to influence process scheduling: nice and renice. These let you assign or change the priority of processes so critical ones get more CPU time, and less critical ones back off. In this blog, you’ll learn:

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Merin John October 16, 2025
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