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 Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

James Ensor 5wire, Servers, Tutorial 4 January 2021
In this tutorial, you will learn how to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04, using the Apache client Certbot to obtain a free SSL certificate and set up your certificate to renew automatically.
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How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 20.04

James Ensor 5wire, Servers, Tutorial 16 November 2020
In this tutorial, you will use the Let's Encrypt client Certbot to obtain a free SSL certificate for Apache on Ubuntu 20.04 and set up your certificate to renew automatically.
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Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 20.04

James Ensor 5wire, Servers, Tutorial 30 October 2020
This guide should cover everything needed for initial server setup with Ubuntu 20.04.
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How To Install the Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 20.04

James Ensor 5wire, Servers, Tutorial 21 October 2020
In this guide, we’ll explain how to install an Apache web server on your Ubuntu 20.04 server.
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How To Install the Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 18.04

James Ensor 5wire, Servers, Tutorial 18 October 2020
In this guide, we’ll explain how to install an Apache web server on your Ubuntu 18.04 server.
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Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 18.04

James Ensor 5wire, Servers, Tutorial 11 September 2020
This guide should cover everything needed for initial server setup with Ubuntu 18.04.
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Automate tasks on your cloud server using Cron

James Ensor 5wire, Hosting, Servers, Support, VPS 15 August 2017
Introduction One of the most standard ways to run tasks in the background on Linux machines is with cron jobs. They’re useful for scheduling tasks on the VPS and automating different maintenance-related jobs. “Cron” itself…
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