by Richard W | Jun 29, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Caching is good for your WordPress blogs. In simplest terms, caching is a process whereby web pages/content are stored away for future use by the web server. For example, if user a visits your site and reads a particular page, the web server will fetch all data...
by Richard W | Jun 24, 2015 | How-To/Tips
Quick answer: Install Nginx, MariaDB and PHP-FPM, create a database for WordPress, extract WordPress to /var/www/wordpress, add an Nginx server block that passes .php requests to the PHP-FPM socket, then finish the install in your browser. Add a free SSL certificate...
by Richard W | Jun 22, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web, Wordpress
SSL for your websites is cool! Not only can you keep information private between those visiting your sites and your server, but you can also be rewarded for that. Implementing SSL for your blogs or websites will allow your sites to be promoted to higher ranks on...
by Richard W | Jun 19, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Wordpress
OpenSSH or Secure Shell has become the default connection method to remote Linux servers. It comes pre-installed in most Linux distributions and works right out of the box. No need to configure, just install and it’s ready to start accepting connections....
by Richard W | Jun 18, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This brief tutorial is going to show you how to easily install MongoDB noSQL database server on Ubuntu 15.04. MongoDB is a free opensource NoSQL document database server used in modern web applications. Unlike like SQL servers where table’s schemas must be...
by Richard W | Jun 17, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
Oracle VirtualBox is cool! It’s a great virtualization software which allows anyone to run multiple operating systems (OS) on top of a single host computer. I’ve used it many times in many different situations. Unlike VMware Workstation, VirtualBox is free...
by Richard W | Jun 15, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Web, Wordpress
There are many good information out there across the web that tell you how to optimize WordPress blogs. There are also many bad tips that tell you how to speed up and make WordPress blogs SEO friendly, but in the wrong way. If you’re new to managing your blogs...
by Richard W | Jun 10, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Wordpress
New users who want to learn how to install WordPress on Ubuntu 15.04 server can continue reading below. This tutorial is going to show users how to install WordPress on Ubuntu server to power a WordPress blog or website. It’s going to be short and easy, and very...
by Richard W | Jun 8, 2015 | How-To/Tips
Installing and configuring VSFTPD in Ubuntu is easy. VSFTPD stands for Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon (VSFTPD). It’s a popular and secure opensource FTP server used by millions of webmasters and developers. If you’ll be using FTP services on...
by Richard W | Jun 7, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Windows
I recently had to install Ubuntu 15.04 but didn’t want to buy a whole new computer for this. The Ubuntu machine was going to be used as a test bed for some of my opensource applications. Buying a new computer for this wan’t in the plan, so I installed...
