by Richard W | Jun 4, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
LAMP is a reference to open source most frequently used software related to web services. The L in LAMP stands for Linux, A for Apache2 Web Server, M for MySQL or MariaDB database server and the P for PHP web service scripts. Combining and installing these allows...
by Richard W | Jun 2, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Web
For new users who want to monetize their content and make some money, the most popular way is to add Google AdSense code to your blogs or websites. We use AdSense on this blog to help pay the bills. AdSense is a free, simple way to earn money by displaying targeted...
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...