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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How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 25 May 2021
In this tutorial, you will learn how to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on CentOS 8. We will use the Let’s Encrypt client Certbot to obtain a free SSL certificate for Apache on CentOS 8…
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Initial Server Setup with CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, Servers, Tutorial 3 January 2021
Initial server setup with CentOS 8 - this guide will cover everything you need to know about manually setting up your CentOS 8 server.
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How to install Go (golang) 1.9 on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Tutorial, VPS 21 January 2018
Introduction Go, often referred to as golang, is an open-source programming language developed by Google. It takes a minimalist approach to development and makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. This tutorial will…
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How to install and configure Ansibile on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction First off, you’ll need to set up your CentOS 7 server. Here’s how. Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you…
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Jump start in to CentOS – How to Create a new Sudo User

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction If you haven’t set up your new server yet, read this guide. The sudo command provides a mechanism for granting administrator privileges, ordinarily only available to the root user, to normal users. This guide…
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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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