How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction TLS, or transport layer security, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for secure sockets layer, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic…
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How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction TLS, or “transport layer security”, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for “secure sockets layer”, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic…
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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction The Apache web server is the most popular way of serving web content on the Internet. It serves more than half of all of the Internet’s active websites, and is extremely powerful and flexible.…
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How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack On CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction A “LAMP” stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents…
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What is yum and how do you use it?

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
What is yum? YUM Repositories are warehouses of Linux software (RPM package files). RPM package file is a Red Hat Package Manager file and enables quick and easy software installation on Red Hat/CentOS Linux. YUM…
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Editing the Sudoers file on Ubuntu and CentOS

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction Privilege separation is one of the fundamental security paradigms implemented in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Regular users operate with limited privileges in order to reduce the scope of their influence to their own…
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How To Configure SSH Key-Based Authentication on a Linux Server

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with a Linux server, chances are, you will spend most of your time in a terminal session…
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation

James Ensor 5wire 3 August 2017
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming in to force on 25th May 2018. So, what should we know? The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was approved by the EU Parliament on…
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London Colocation from £40 per month!

James Ensor 5wire 19 January 2017
[headline]Quality, Affordable, Server Colocation[/headline] [pricing_table columns=”4″] [pricing_column name=”1u Colocation” price=”40″ button_name=”Order Now” button_link=”https://billing.5wire.co.uk/cart.php?a=add&pid=48&billingcycle=annually”] [pricing_text icon=”icon-hdd”]1U Colocation[/pricing_text] [pricing_text icon=”icon-exchange”]1TB Bandwidth[/pricing_text] [pricing_text icon=”icon-cloud-upload”]0.5 Amp Power[/pricing_text] [pricing_text icon=”icon-desktop”]100Mbit Network Uplink[/pricing_text] [pricing_text icon=”icon-gear”]Free Setup[/pricing_text] [/pricing_column] [pricing_column name=”2u Colocation” price=”60″…
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Affordable Colocation in Central London

James Ensor 5wire, Blog 18 January 2017
With two awesome data centres in the heart of Central London, 5wire Networks are pleased to offer affordable colocation without the huge overheads. We currently have availability in Telecity Meridan Gate. [small_space] Affordable Colocation [small_space]…
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