A brief look at Regular Expressions (RegEx)

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…

How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on CentOS 7

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…

What is SSH? SSH Essentials, and how to use SSH

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…

Use Softaculous to install modules on your server

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…

How To Install MariaDB on CentOS 7

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.…

How To Install MySQL on CentOS 7

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.…

Get your emails up and running with cPanel

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…

How To Configure Apache Content Caching on CentOS 7

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…

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

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…

How To Install And Configure mod_deflate On CentOS 7

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,…