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 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 allow your cPanel Webmail users to reset their password?

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, cpanel, Hosting, VPS 28 July 2022
This tutorial will show you how to enable a password reset for Webmail users in WHM/cPanel.  You will only be able to proceed with this guide if you have WHM / Tweak Settings access, or…
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How to install WordPress in cPanel

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, cpanel, Hosting, Tutorial, VPS 27 July 2022
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system that lets you create a website, whether it be a blog for tutorials or an ecommerce website to sell your homemade products! There are thousands of…
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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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An Introduction to Linux Permissions

James Ensor 5wire, Security, Servers, Tutorial 14 September 2020
Linux is a multi-user OS that is based on the Unix concepts of file ownership and permissions to provide security at the file system level.
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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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