by Richard W | Oct 27, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web, Wordpress
With the release of Ubuntu 14.10, some webmasters are already thinking of migrating or selecting it as their base OS to host their blogs or websites. Ubuntu is a great Linux operating system which is trusted by millions of webmasters all over the world. Managing...
by Richard W | Oct 23, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Most tutorials we’ve written about PHP-FPM have been done with support for Nginx. This brief tutorial is going to show you how to integrate PHP-FPM and Apache2 to improve your website performance. Nowadays website performance is key. If your website or WordPress...
by Richard W | Oct 21, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web
APC is a great caching software for PHP that can speed up your websites. Because PHP is a dynamic server-side scripting language that must be parsed and compiled on the server every time a page is requested, using caching software may greatly improve your website...
by Richard W | Oct 20, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web, Wordpress
Few days ago we showed you how to install and use DenyHosts on Ubuntu 14.04. This post is going to show you how to install and use similar tool called fail2ban on Ubuntu 14.04. Like DenyHosts, fail2ban also checks your server logs to look for patterns that resemble an...
by Richard W | Oct 18, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
Vanish is a proxy and cache server which is designed to improve websites performance. Vanish works great for busy and dynamic websites by redirecting dynamic calls to static cached pages thus reducing the number new requests that can be served. For example, a website...
by Richard W | Oct 15, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to create a virtual host or server block on Nginx web server. Virtual Host is a term used with Apache2 to host multiple websites on a single web server. Nginx on the other hand calls it Server Block. So to Nginx...
