Migrate from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 [Easy Guide]

James Ensor 5wire, Hosting, Servers, Tutorial, VPS 7 September 2023
With CentOS 7 fast approaching End of Life in June 2024, this article explains how easy it is to upgrade from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 using the ELevate tool. What is Elevate? ELevate is…
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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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How To Set Up SSH Keys on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Security, Servers 31 May 2021
This tutorial will teach you how to set up SSH Keys on a server running CentOS 8. SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with…
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How to Install Nginx on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 28 May 2021
Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and most popular sites on the internet. It is more resource-friendly than Apache in…
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