What is rsync and how to use it?

James Ensor CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Tutorial 9 March 2024
Data synchronisation is a crucial aspect of managing files and folders across different systems or locations. Among the myriad of tools available for this purpose, rsync stands out for its efficiency, flexibility, and robustness. In…
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How To Install Linux Kernel 5.x on Almalinux 8 or Rocky

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Tutorial, VPS 6 September 2023
By default both AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux 8.x come packaged with Linux Kernel 4.x, whereas the latest stable long term was 5.4 and stable mainline kernels 5.18. This guide will show you how to install/upgrade…
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How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack On CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, PHP, Servers, Support, Tutorial 11 August 2022
Introduction A LEMP software 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…
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How to create a Proxmox Template with a Cloud-Init image

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Hosting, Proxmox, Servers, Support, Tutorial, VPS 29 July 2022
This guide will show you how to create a Proxmox KVM Template from a Cloud-Init Image. You will need to have a prepared Cloud Image with Cloud-Init. Check out this guide to see how to…
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How to prepare a Cloud-Init OS Templates for Proxmox

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Proxmox, Servers, VPS 29 July 2022
This guide will show you how to prepare a Cloud Image for a Proxmox VM Template. The same process works for any Cloud-Init OpenStack based image.  We deploy Cloud-Init based KVM Cloud Servers from WHMCS.…
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How To Install Git on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 24 June 2021
This tutorial will teach you, step-by-step, how to install Git on your CentOS 8 server.
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How To Install Python 3 and Set Up a Programming Environment on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 21 June 2021
This tutorial will teach you, step-by-step, how to install Python 3 and set up a programming environment on a CentOS 8 server.
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How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) Stack on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, PHP, Servers, Tutorial 17 June 2021
This tutorial will teach you, step-by-step, how to install the LEMP stack on a CentOS 8 server.
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How To Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 5 June 2021
In this tutorial, you will learn how to secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on CentOS 8.
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How To Set Up Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Security, Servers, Tutorial 3 June 2021
This tutorial will teach you, step-by-step, how to set up multi-factor authentication for SSH on CentOS 8.
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