by Richard W | Apr 22, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” was just recently released and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to do an in-place upgrade easily. An in-place upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 is quite easy. All you need is a stable Internet connection and running few...
by Richard W | Mar 7, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
Hosting your WordPress blogs on your own server is better than on a shared server. New webmasters will opt for shared environments as they’re easy to setup and manage. The one big hurdle of running your own server is you become the server, network and security...
by Richard W | Dec 16, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Security, Wordpress
Using SSL encryption on your website or blogs to protect user’s privacy is not a bad idea. In fact, Google recommends it. Google announced few months back, that if you migrate to your websites and blogs to HTTPS, you may get a small bump on its search engine...
by Richard W | Nov 9, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Wordpress
Quick answer: Run sudo apt install nginx mariadb-server php-fpm php-mysql, secure MariaDB with mysql_secure_installation, then edit your Nginx server block so .php requests are passed to the PHP-FPM socket. Test with a phpinfo() file and delete it afterwards. LEMP is...
by Richard W | Nov 4, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Installing WordPress on Ubuntu 15.10 server isn’t difficult as compare to other Linux distributions. Right out of the box, Ubuntu servers and services are configured without firewall enabled.. which is a good thing since Linux firewall can really be a show...
