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Squid is a caching and forwarding web proxy. It is most often used in conjunction with a traditional LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and can be used to filter traffic on HTTP, FTP, and HTTPS, and increase the speed (thus lower the response time) for a web server via caching.

PostgreSQL is a free, open-source object-relational database management system (object-RDBMS), similar to MySQL, and is standards-compliant and extensible. It often is used as a back-end for web and mobile applications. PostgreSQL, or ‘Postgres’ as it is nicknamed, adopts the ANSI/ISO SQL standards together, with the revisions.

Pip is a tool for installing and managing packages for Python. The popular Python programming language is considered one of the easiest to learn because of its emphasis on code readability.

The locate command is an invaluable tool when you’re trying to track down a particular file but know only the file name. Locate reads one or more databases prepared by the related updatedb and writes file names matching at least one of the patterns to standard output, one per line.

PhpMyAdmin is an open-source tool used for the administration of MySQL. In addition to offering the capability to perform administrative tasks such as creating, editing, or deleting databases, and managing users and permissions, PhpMyAdmin provides a graphical user interface to do all of these tasks and more.

MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. It is easy to install, offers many speed and performance improvements, and is easily integrated into most MySQL deployments. MariaDB offers more storage engines than MySQL, including Cassandra (NoSQL), XtraDB (drop-in replacement for InnoDB), and OQGRAPH.

Docker is a container-based software framework, commonly used for automating deployment of applications. Containers are encapsulated, lightweight, and portable application modules.

Docker is a container-based software framework commonly used for automating deployment of applications. Containers are encapsulated, lightweight, and portable application modules.

As a matter of following security best practices, you should protect your server with a firewall. Fedora 23 and CentOS 7 come with firewalld, an alternative to iptables.

For security best practices, do not disable firewalld without enabling another firewall solution. Disabling firewalld without enabling an alternative will leave every port on your server open and completely unprotected.