In this series, we take you from bare-metal to a highly-available WordPress site, load-balanced over two nodes and resistant to VPS failures using MariaDB multi-master replication, DRBD, and round-robin DNS. In this episode, we setup MariaDB’s Multi-Master replication. This video is based on our earlier tutorial. Earlier videos in this series: Part 1 Part 2 […]
Automating mysql_secure_installation in MariaDB Setup
Lots of people want to automate their system setup, and this is frequently done by either using the provider’s new VM hooks to run a script at setup time or later using something like Ansible. If you are trying to automate MariaDB/MySQL installations, it’s easy enough to install MariaDB (e.g., apt-get -y mariadb-server) but you […]
LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04
Firewall, Let's Encrypt, mariadb, nginx, PHP, Ubuntu 16.04, VPS 
July 18, 2019 @ 12:09 pm, by Dusko SavicThis tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack, which includes Apache instead of Nginx. You’ll notice that it’s not written as LNMP, and that’s due to the pronunciation of the word […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX
cache, caching, epel, LEMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, nginx, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, redis, ssl, virtual hosting July 15, 2019 @ 7:58 am, by Ryan FlowersWelcome 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? […]
How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 18.04
apache, mariadb, Moodle, mysql, PHP, PostgresSQL, Ubuntu 18.04 July 5, 2019 @ 7:03 am, by Sean RichardsMoodle 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: DIY (self-hosted,) Hosted by Moodle for pretty reasonable price points, and Hosted by Moodle Partners. The Moodle product portfolio includes Core, App, Workplace, […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis
apache, epel, LAMP, Let's Encrypt, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, redis, ssl, virtual hosting July 1, 2019 @ 7:10 am, by Ryan FlowersIn 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 game just a bit more by installing server side caching with a program called Redis. Then we’ll configure WordPress to use […]
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 FlowersWelcome 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 FlowersWelcome 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 […]
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 FlowersIn 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 […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]
apache, LAMP, linux, mariadb, mysql, PHP, php 7.3, PHP-FPM, virtual hosting June 3, 2019 @ 5:04 am, by Ryan FlowersWelcome 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. Our server will be based on CentOS 7 Linux, Apache 2.4, MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) and PHP 7.3. This combination of software […]
