What is MimasTech?

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MimasTech is a Linux-focused technical blog and services site that publishes step-by-step tutorials, tips, and full solutions for system administrators and developers. It is most useful if you work with RPM-family Linux distributions (Red Hat, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora) or Debian/Ubuntu systems and want practical, command-level walkthroughs rather than high-level overviews.

What MimasTech covers

The site organizes its content into a small set of recurring categories, visible in its main navigation:

  • Linux OS — installation and configuration guides for common distributions
  • Virtualization — virtual machine and disk management tasks
  • Databases — database engine installation and troubleshooting
  • Security — hardening and security-related configuration
  • Services & Tools — server software and utilities
  • FAQs — short answers to recurring problems

The kind of content you'll find

MimasTech's published posts are hands-on tutorials. Representative examples from its latest posts list include:

Topic Example post
Databases How to Install MongoDB 4.0 Community Edition on CentOS/RHEL 7 and Fedora Linux Systems
Text processing Practical Examples for Using Awk Command in Text Processing in Linux
Web stack How to Install PHP 7.3 (and 7.2, 7.1, 7.0) on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 Linux Systems
Containers How to Install Docker on Debian 9 "Stretch" Linux systems
Desktop software How to Install the Latest Stable Google Chrome on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Troubleshooting Resolving the Rails error PG::CharacterNotInRepertoire: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc2 on Linux
Virtualization How to Resize/Increase the Virtual Disk (LVM) of a Xen DomU Guest Virtual Machine

Two patterns stand out. First, the tutorials target specific version pairs — for example, PHP 7.3 on CentOS 7 — rather than generic "install PHP" instructions, which matters because the repository setup differs between versions. Second, the site mixes installation guides with debugging notes, such as the PostgreSQL/Rails encoding error, so it functions as a reference for problems as well as a starting point for new setups.

Who it's for

MimasTech is aimed at people who already have shell access and want to follow along. The tutorials assume a bare or near-bare system and walk through repository configuration, package installation, and service startup. If you are looking for conceptual explanations of how MongoDB or Docker works internally, this is not the primary focus; if you need the exact commands to get a specific version running on a specific distribution, it is.

Community contribution

The site explicitly invites readers to submit their own experience for publication, framing the blog as a shared knowledge base: "Share us building the greatest blog ever by sending us your experience to share it with others." That means content quality and depth can vary between posts, and newer submissions may cover setups the core tutorials don't.

Services and payment

MimasTech lists a "Services & Tools" section alongside its blog content, indicating it offers services in addition to written tutorials. PayPal appears as a payment platform on the site. Specific service offerings, scope, and pricing are not detailed in the available site information, so check the Services & Tools page directly if you need those details.

How to get the most out of it

  • Match your distribution and version first. Because posts are version-specific, confirm the tutorial targets your exact OS release before following it.
  • Read the full post before running commands. Installation guides often include repository changes that affect other packages on the system.
  • Use the troubleshooting posts as references. Error-message-based articles, like the Rails encoding fix, are useful when you hit the same message rather than as general reading.
  • Check the date. Version-specific guides age quickly once upstream repositories move on.