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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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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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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