by Richard W | Jun 1, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Web, Wordpress
Speed is a good thing and everyone knows that. If you’re running a website or blog and you want your readers to spend more time reading your articles, then you’ll probably want to improve your website performance (speed). Every webmaster knows the...
by Richard W | May 26, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Web
Today Nginx version 1.9.1 was released and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to install or upgrade to it in Ubuntu/CentOS 7. Nginx is a great web server and is being used by millions of webmasters across the Internet to manage and power their websites or...
by Richard W | Apr 21, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Wordpress
I have been writing on WordPress for over 5 years, and have managed to run things myself. I have installed and updated WordPress numeral times, mistakenly deleted WordPress database and web content, as well as moved several times searching for better hosts and deals....
by Richard W | Apr 19, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Windows
Few weeks ago I wrote here that I had been busy helping a small clinic on most weekends with their IT needs. The business is very small and can’t afford to hire an IT staff to manage their systems. The IT work around the business isn’t much for a full-time...
by Richard W | Mar 26, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Wordpress
Nginx 1.7.11 was released few days ago and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to install or upgrade to the latest version of Nginx on CentOS 7. If you’re not already using Nginx web server to power your blogs or websites, you should give it a try as...
by Richard W | Mar 21, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Windows
Well, it’s been exactly a month since I last posted a blog here, and this post will detail some of the reasons why I was away. I normally write about two to three posts a week, but it’s been over four weeks since I last posted anything on this blog....
by Richard W | Feb 20, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This document describes how to perform an LTS release upgrade in Ubuntu. There are many upgrade methods one can perform using Ubuntu. One can upgrade packages using sudo dist-upgrade and sudo apt-get update commands. Running the above two commands only upgrade...
by Richard W | Feb 11, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
This document shows you how to install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 14.10 and run your own wiki site. MediaWiki is free opensource software written in PHP that was original intended for Wikipedia. It now runs on many other non-profit and wiki sites across the Internet. If you...
by Richard W | Feb 5, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
This document shows you how to install bbPress on Ubuntu 14.10 server. bbPress is a forum software that can be used to power your forum-only sites or integrated with WordPress and other CMS to enable forums and discussion platform. It’s a great software to have...
by Richard W | Feb 3, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security
This document shows you how to install and configure secure ProFTPD server on Ubuntu 14.10. ProFTPD is a free FTP server that allows you to upload/download and share content via FTP protocol. FTP protocol is inherently insecure. Without encrypting the network traffic...
