Plex is a media streaming application that allows you to keep your media collection – movies, music, photos – on a server attached to your local network and access them from a browser-based interface or app. Plex even streams a wide variety of podcasts and shows directly from the internet and by upgrading to the […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli
apache, cerbot, LAMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, ssl, virtual hosting, wordpress, wp-cli 
June 15, 2019 @ 6:00 am, by Ryan Flowers 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 version of MariaDB. Then we configured a single VirtualHost for hosting a website, and in Part 3 configured that VirtualHost to […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let’s Encrypt SSL
apache, cerbot, LAMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, ssl, virtual hosting June 13, 2019 @ 6:10 am, by Ryan Flowers 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, now’s a good time. In this installment we’re going to secure our new Virtual Host (lowend-tutorial.tld) with a Let’s Encrypt […]
How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt Ubuntu 16.04
apache, Authority, ca, Certificate, Certificate Authority, CSR, Encrypt, HTTPS, Let's Encrypt, Let’s, private key, Public Key, ssl, ubuntu, virtual private network, vpn, web server June 12, 2019 @ 6:25 am, by John A. Huguley 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, and then dive into a step by step guide to install & configure Let’s Encrypt on your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS servers and the review how […]
How To Create a DNS Server On CentOS 7
The DNS or Domain Name System is the distributed database that allows zone records, such as IP addresses, to be associated with domain names. When a computer, such as your laptop or phone, needs to communicate with a remote computer, such as a web server, over the internet they use each others IP addresses. People […]
How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a CentOS 7 VPS
CentOS 7, Let's Encrypt, nginx, node.js, npm packages, Reverse Proxy June 10, 2019 @ 2:09 pm, by Dusko Savic In this tutorial, we will create a simple Node.js application and put it into a production ready environment. We are going to install and use the following pieces of software: Nginx as a reverse proxy. It will make the app accessible from your browser, and in case you ran several sites from the same server, […]
How to Setup & Configure VestaCP on Ubuntu 16.04
control panels, hosting, ubuntu, vestacp, virtual private server June 9, 2019 @ 6:56 am, by Dusko Savic VestaCP is a versatile open-source control panel for Linux machines. It provides a point & click, clutter-free interface, simplifying server administration tasks at the same time. In this tutorial we will walk you through the process of installation, configuration, and first time usage of this free and open-source web hosting control panel.
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.
How To Install And Configure Postfix on Ubuntu 16.04
email hosting, email services, Mailbox, postfix, SMTP, ubuntu, virtual hosting June 7, 2019 @ 6:49 am, by Dusko Savic With this tutorial, you will learn how to install and use Postfix, an open-source mail transfer agent. With Postfix, you will be able to send and receive e-mail, and also send them through third party SMTP servers, such as gmail.com.
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]
apache, LAMP, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, virtual hosting June 3, 2019 @ 5:05 am, by Ryan Flowers 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 for PHP and installed PHP 7.3 and PHP-FPM. We also got the latest version of MariaDB installed and filled in some […]
