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by Richard W | Aug 27, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows, Wordpress
There are many tutorials on installing and configuring WordPress. Most WordPress installations are done with help of web hosting tools like cPanel and others. Those tools hide the complexity of installing and configuring WordPress. They allow anyone without knowledge...
by Richard W | Aug 17, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
Recently we showed you how to install HHVM(Hip Hop Virtual Machine) just-in-time compiler written in PHP developed by Facebook. Most webmasters have argued that HHVM is faster than traditional PHP engine from ZEND. To read the post on installing HHVM on Ubuntu, please...
by Richard W | Aug 13, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
I have migrated my WordPress blog many times. I have gone from HTTP to HTTPS and back to HTTP. I may likely go back to HTTPS in the future but for now, I am staying with HTTP. Now, moving your WordPress site to SSL or another domain can be tricky. If you don’t...
by Richard W | Jul 29, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
The LAMP stack consists of Linux, Apache2, MySQL (MariaDB) and PHP. It’s the most popular opensource stack that powers more than half of all websites online today. Servers that make up the stack are inter-changeable. For example, Apache2 can be replaced with...
by Richard W | Jul 21, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Wordpress
Here’s an instruction on generating a certificate signing request (CSR) for your domain or website. SSL has become a ranking factor for Google, so if you want your website to rank higher on Google’s Search Result Pages, you may want to enable SSL / TLS for...
by Richard W | Jul 13, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Windows
If you’ve been following Oracle VirtualBox recently, then you’ve probably already heard that VirtualBox 5.0 was recently released with boat load of changes and new features. It was released (a major one) with paravirtualization support for Windows and...
by Richard W | Jul 10, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Sometimes it may be wise to run multiple websites or blogs on a single server. For example, running one website or blog per server may not be the best way to utilize your server resources. One server, one website? No way.. just not efficient. That’s why...
by Richard W | Jul 9, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Web, Wordpress
Apache2 Name-based Virtual Hosts allows multiple domain/website names to be hosted on a single Apache2 web server. For example, if you have a single server assigned a single IP address, you could install Apache2 web server and host multiple websites by using its...
by Richard W | Jul 1, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Web, Wordpress
Google and other Internet companies are encouraging webmasters to use SSL certificates on their websites. Implementing SSL for your blogs will provide necessary privacy to your audience who visit your sites. This blog post is going to show you how to enable SSL when...
by Richard W | Jun 30, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
Few days ago we showed you how to install Nginx web server on Ubuntu 15.04 to run your WordPress blogs or websites. We then showed you how to enable Nginx caching to help improve your website performance. This post will continue from where we left off by showing you...
