Pink Networks is being featured here for the first time with offers on Managed Dedicated Servers. These Managed Dedicated Servers comes with free DirectAdmin license (worth $30) along with Softaculous app installer. Monitoring service worth $5 a month is also included for free. If a user needs premium SSL, they include 1 PositiveSSL with the […]
CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX
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? […]
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 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
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
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 […]
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 unsuitable for a small, inexpensive VPS that you’d find here at LowEndBox. Most likely the cPanel license will cost significantly more than […]
Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 2
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 server for a low memory footprint. We’re also going to make sure we have a modern version of PHP installed […]