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

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Support, Tutorial 18 January 2018
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…
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How To Install And Configure mod_deflate On CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, PHP, Support, Tutorial 19 October 2017
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,…
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How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction TLS, or “transport layer security”, and its predecessor SSL, which stands for “secure sockets layer”, are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. Using this technology, servers can send traffic…
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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Hosting, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction The Apache web server is the most popular way of serving web content on the Internet. It serves more than half of all of the Internet’s active websites, and is extremely powerful and flexible.…
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How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack On CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction A “LAMP” 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 represents…
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How to set up your new CentOS 7 server

James Ensor CentOS, Servers, Tutorial 15 August 2017
So you have a fresh new server, now what? There are a few configuration steps you’ll need to go through before you can start playing around with your new kit. This is for security and…
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How to reset your MySQL or MariaDB root password

James Ensor CentOS, Tutorial 3 August 2017
Forgotten your MySQL or MariaDB root password? Don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world. You can reset your MySQL or MariaDB root passwords, provided you have access to the server and a sudo-enabled…
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Which Control Panel is for you? cPanel, Plesk and More

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 15 January 2017
Those that require Web Hosting often look for the most easy method for managing their servers using a Control Panel. As we all know, the easiest way is with a simple graphical user interface to…
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[emerg]: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)

James Ensor cpanel, Tutorial 4 January 2017
nginxCP can fail to start because another service is using Port 80, thus preventing nginxCP from starting. Often an error similar to the below will be thrown out – [emerg]: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address…
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CentOS 6 Install and Configure NTP to Synchronise The System Clock

James Ensor Blog, Tutorial 3 January 2017
One problem often encountered with a new install of some operating systems is that the time settings are incorrect. You can easily update these manually, or much more easily you can use the NTP service…
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