Ryan Flowers, Author at LowEndBox

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

Jul 15, 2019

Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and installing NGINX (pronounced "Engine X") in its place. Why would we want to replace the Apache web server with NGINX? The answer is in concurrency. NGINX can handle more connections at the same time than Apache can without caus...

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

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

Ryan Flowers

Jul 01, 2019

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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...

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

Ryan Flowers

Jun 15, 2019

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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...

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

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

Ryan Flowers

Jun 13, 2019

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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,...

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

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

Ryan Flowers

Jun 03, 2019

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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...

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

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

Ryan Flowers

Jun 03, 2019

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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...

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

Installing ISPConfig3 on CentOS 7… or Not

Ryan Flowers

May 16, 2019

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Welcome to another LowEndBox tutorial- sort of. What started out as a tutorial for installing ISPConfig 3 on CentOS 7 has taken a drastic turn. Instead of telling you about how you can install ISPConf...

Installing ISPConfig3 on CentOS 7… or Not

How to Setup SFTP to Securely Transfer Files on CentOS 7

Ryan Flowers

Apr 28, 2019

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Welcome to another LowEndBox tutorial. We're going to explore the world of SFTP: What it is, isn't, how to use it and why. Let's get to it! What is SFTP? We're glad you asked! SFTP is the Secure File...

Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 1

Ryan Flowers

Apr 12, 2019

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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...

Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 2

Ryan Flowers

Apr 12, 2019

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In Part 1 of our tutorial, we installed Virtualmin on CentOS 7 and did some basic configuration. In this second half, we're going to dive deep into the Linux configuration files to optimize our new se...

Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 2

Using SSH Keys to connect to your VPS

Ryan Flowers

Apr 02, 2019

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In the days before Virtualization emerged, servers could only be built using physical hardware. A server admin would build a server, plug in a keyboard and monitor, and install Linux via CD or over th...