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More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan.  Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing.  They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello! Recently we featured an excellent guest post by Eddie Barksdale at Porkbun. Eddie's post explains how to install Certbun, which is Porkbun's alternative to Certbot. Certbun and Certbot both are Python scripts which install L...

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More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

Updating A Free Udemy Bootstrap Course On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Low End Box recently published A Beginner’s Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy’s Free Courses! The second of the two Udemy courses discussed in that post was Create a Members Only Blog using PHP, MySQL,...

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Updating A Free Udemy Bootstrap Course On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

What's the Fastest Wordpress Stack? Find Out on LowEndTalk!

Stop me if you've heard this on before. You started a web site and were thrilled when you started to get substantial traffic.  At first, your cPanel hosting could keep up but eventually either you or...

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What's the Fastest Wordpress Stack?  Find Out on LowEndTalk!

Four Step VPS Webserver: Debian, Apache, Certbot, And Let's Encrypt!

For some reason, I can never remember these certbot commands.  Bookmarked!  --raindog308 Introduction Debian, Apache, Certbot, and Let's Encrypt are frequently used for websites. A problem for beginne...

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Four Step VPS Webserver: Debian, Apache, Certbot, And Let's Encrypt!

Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

A ramdisk - or if you prefer, RAMdisk - is a method of taking a section of memory and treating it as disk.  If you think about it for a moment, the pros/cons should be obvious: RAM is much faster than...

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Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

log4Shell Vulnerability: "Worst Hack in History"

Vulnerabilities don't get much worse than cases where typing the right characters into a chat box gives you remote access to the world's Minecraft servers.  Whoops. It's been termed the worst hack in...

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log4Shell Vulnerability:

How to install PHP 7.4 with Nginx and Apache on Ubuntu

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to install PHP 7.4 with Nginx and Apache on Ubuntu

How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

A Group of Friends Making One of the World's Most Popular Panels: Interview with DirectAdmin's Co-Owner, Martynas Bendorius

Our interview series has featured some of the true titans of the hosting industry.  We're very excited to interview Martynas Bendorius, one of the owners of DirectAdmin.  As one of the most popular an...

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A Group of Friends Making One of the World's Most Popular Panels: Interview with DirectAdmin's Co-Owner, Martynas Bendorius

Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. A web server is an integra...

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Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

The Apache is a web server developed by Apache Foundation in 1995. Apache is the one of the most widely used and robust web server. Apache web server requires a valid SSL certificate to enable web sec...

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How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will start with an empty VPS with a freshly installed CentOS 7 and will end up with three different sites sharing the same IP address, hosted on the same machine. Apache web serve...

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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we shall start with an empty VPS screen of a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 and will finish up with three different sites sharing the same IP address. Apache web server analyzes inpu...

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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu  16.04

Set Up and Use Composer on a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and use Composer, the dependency manager for PHP. What We Are Going To Cover We will install the following: Apache & PHP PHP extensions to run Compo...

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Set Up and Use Composer on a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 18.04

Moodle is an open source Learning Management System or LMS.  It hails as the worlds most popular learning platform with over 153M users worldwide.  Moodle is consumable in 3 basic hosted varieties: DI...

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How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 18.04

Setup And Configure Mod_Rewrite on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we will study Mod_Rewrite, one of the most important modules of the Apache server. It can change the incoming address from the browser into something else, on the fly. The most commo...

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Setup And Configure Mod_Rewrite on Ubuntu 16.04

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis

In the previous CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorials, we configured a LAMP stack, secured it with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and installed WordPress with WP-CLI. Here in Part 5 we're going to up our ga...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis

How to Replace Apache with NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04

NGINX is the modern web server founded by computer software engineer Igor Sysoev in the year 2004. NGINX is used by the most busiest and high traffic website. NGINX works out of box with the most majo...

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How to Replace Apache with NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

Welcome to the fourth installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series.In Part 1 and Part 2 we configured a LAMP server with PHP-FPM running PHP 7.3 and a modern versi...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

Welcome to the third installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series. This tutorial builds on the work done in Part 1 and Part 2, so if you haven't checked them out,...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

How to Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt Ubuntu 16.04

  In this tutorial, we will examine how to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt for the Ubuntu 16.04 operating system.   We will first examine an overview of Let's Encrypt, certificate authorities, a...

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How to Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt Ubuntu 16.04

Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

With this tutorial, you will be able to install and secure phpMyAdmin, the most popular program for accessing MySQL and MariaDB databases on Internet servers. What We Are Going To Cover Installing the...

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Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]

In Part 1 of this Tutorial, we discussed why we decided to build a LAMP server instead of getting one pre-configured via a control panel such as cPanel or Virtualmin. We configured Remi's repository f...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]

Welcome to another LowEndBox Linux tutorial! In this post we're going to design and configure a high performance server that will allow you to run multiple websites using the latest software available...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]

Set Up And Configure Postfix E-Mail Server with Dovecot On Ubuntu 16.04

Set Up And Configure Postfix E-Mail Server with Dovecot With this tutorial, we assume that you have already installed Postfix, an open-source mail transfer agent. After that, we install and configure...

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Set Up And Configure Postfix E-Mail Server with Dovecot On Ubuntu 16.04

How To Install Laravel on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

How To Install Laravel on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS With this tutorial, you will start from a clean Ubuntu 16.04 install, set it up to run Laravel, and end up with a demo Laravel application installed. Other a...

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How To Install Laravel on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

How To Install CakePHP On Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

How To Install CakePHP On a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS With this tutorial, you will be able to create a CakePHP environment from scratch, define a database, and automatically generate a working web app. You wil...

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How To Install CakePHP On Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 1

In the professional Linux web hosting world, cPanel rules as king. That's not necessarily a bad thing! cPanel is rich in features and is for the most part stable and reliable. But it's also completely...

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Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 1
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