Web Caching Basics: Terminology, HTTP Headers, and Caching Strategies

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Support, Tutorial 18 January 2018
Introduction Intelligent content caching is one of the most effective ways to improve the experience for your site’s visitors. Caching, or temporarily storing content from previous requests, is part of the core content delivery strategy…
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Bitcoin Accepted for Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Virtual Servers, Dedicated Servers and Colocation

James Ensor Blog, BoxBilling, cpanel, WHMCS 30 October 2017
We have just updated all of our services so that we are now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payments for our entire range of services! Bitcoin is a rapidly growing virtual currency that has attracted…
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Bitcoin UK Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Virtual Servers and Dedicated Servers

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, cpanel 30 October 2017
5wire Networks were one of the first UK hosts to accept Bitcoin for Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Virtual Servers and Dedicated. Over the past month Bitcoin has experienced another surge of phenomenal growth! Over the…
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Now accepting Bitcoin!

James Ensor 5wire, Blog 30 October 2017
We are happy to announce that we’re now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for all of our services! Bitcoin is rapidly growing virtual currency that has grabbed headlines across the globe for it’s…
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How To Install And Configure mod_deflate On CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, PHP, Support, Tutorial 19 October 2017
Introduction Mod_deflate is an Apache module which allows output from your web server to be compressed before being sent to the client. Once the size of your site content is compressed, its size is smaller,…
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How To Back Up a CentOS 7 Server with Bacula

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 19 October 2017
Introduction This tutorial will show you how to set up Bacula to create backups of a remote CentOS 7 host, over a network connection. This involves installing and configuring the Bacula Client software on a…
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How To Install Bacula Server on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Security, Servers, Tutorial, VPS 16 August 2017
Introduction Bacula is an open source network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. It is very flexible and robust, which makes it, while slightly cumbersome to…
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How To Configure Apache to Use Custom Error Pages on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, cpanel, Support, Tutorial 16 August 2017
Introduction Apache is the most popular web server in the world. It is well-supported, feature-rich, and flexible. When designing your web pages, it is often helpful to customize every piece of content that your users…
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How To Configure Nginx to Use Custom Error Pages on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Support, Tutorial 16 August 2017
Introduction Nginx is a high performance web server capable of serving content with flexibility and power. When designing your web pages, it is often helpful to customize every piece of content that your users will…
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How To Redirect www to Non-www with Nginx on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, cpanel, Servers, Support, Tutorial 16 August 2017
Introduction When you have your web site or application up and running behind a domain, it is often desirable to also allow your users access to it via the plain domain name and the www subdomain. That is, they…
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