How to create Temporary (302) and Permanent (301) redirects with Nginx

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction HTTP redirection is way to point one domain or address to another. There are a few different kinds of redirects, each of which mean something different to the client browser. The two most common types…
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A brief look at Regular Expressions (RegEx)

James Ensor Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction How can we find a particular pattern, like a set of IP addresses belonging to certain range or a range of time-stamps or groups of domain or subdomain names, from files? One might also…
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How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Security, Support, Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction SFTP stands for SSH File Transfer Protocol. As its name suggests, it’s a secure way of transferring files to a server using an encrypted SSH connection. Despite the name, it’s a completely different protocol…
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What is SSH? SSH Essentials, and how to use SSH

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Security, Servers, Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction SSH is a secure protocol used as the primary means of connecting to Linux servers remotely. It provides a text-based interface by spawning a remote shell. After connecting, all commands you type in your…
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Now accepting Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin and Monero!

James Ensor 5wire, Blog 18 January 2018
Now accepting Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin and Monero! We also accept Bitcoin! Following the crypto-boom of late 2017 we have now adopted Monero (XMR), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC) as payment methods…
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Use Softaculous to install modules on your server

James Ensor 5wire, Hosting, Tutorial 18 January 2018
Introduction cPanel has a very handy feature that allows you to download and install modules like WordPress, Joomla, WHMCS and phpBB through the touch of a button. Don’t believe me? Watch this. Getting Started Access…
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How To Install MariaDB on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Hosting, Support, Tutorial 18 January 2018
Introduction MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It uses a relational database and SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage its data.…
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How To Install MySQL on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Hosting, Support, Tutorial 18 January 2018
Introduction MySQL is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It uses a relational database and SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage its data.…
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Get your emails up and running with cPanel

James Ensor 5wire, cpanel, Domains, Hosting, Tutorial 18 January 2018
Introduction If you have yet to create an email account for your new-car-smelling web hosting service, this is the guide for you. Getting Started Once you have received your welcome email, you will be able…
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How To Configure Apache Content Caching on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, cpanel, Hosting, Support, Tutorial 18 January 2018
What is Caching? Caching is a method of improving server performance by allowing commonly requested content to be temporarily stored in a way that allows for faster access. This speeds up processing and delivery by…
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