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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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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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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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 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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How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Security, Servers, Support, Tutorial, VPS 16 August 2017
Introduction While connecting to your server through SSH can be very secure, the SSH daemon itself is a service that must be exposed to the Internet to function properly. This comes with some inherent risk…
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