Set up Magento 2 with Redis, Varnish and Nginx as SSL termination

magento 2 with redis varnish and nginx as ssl termination

In this article, we will show you how to install Magento 2 on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM 7.0, Varnish as a full page cache, Nginx as SSL termination and Redis for session storage and page caching.  This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

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Install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04

Install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we will explain to you, how to install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04. OpenVPN is one of the most popular VPN software solutions, on both server-side and client-side. OpenVPN implements virtual private network techniques for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. Installing OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04, is an easy task if you carefully follow the steps below.

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Best Open Source Hosting Control Panels

open source hosting control panels
Most website owners use web hosting control panels to manage their hosting environment. The fact is, the control panel facilitates the server administration and allows users to manage multiple websites without hiring an expert. Today, with so many options available, you don’t have to be a command line guru in order to host a simple website. All you need is a server and a web hosting control panel. There are paid control panels like WHM/cPanel or DirectAdmin which are very powerful, but if you don’t like to pay for a control panel you can simply choose one of the open source alternatives. In this guide, we will present to you some of the most popular open source hosting control panels.

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Install Froxlor on CentOS 7

Install Froxlor on CentOS 7

We will show you how to install Froxlor on a CentOS 7 VPS. Froxlor is a lightweight control panel that can be used for managing multi-user or shared servers. With Froxlor you can manage domain names, FTP accounts, email accounts, support tickets and customers that are associated with them.

The control panel does not come with preinstalled LAMP or LEMP so in this tutorial we will also install LAMP (Linux Apache, MariaDB & PHP).

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How to manage multiple WordPress sites from a single place using the MainWP plugin

manage multiple WordPress sites from a single place using the MainWP plugin

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install two WordPress instances on separate virtual servers with Ubuntu 16.04 OS and Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on them, and how to manage them from a single place using the MainWP WordPress plugin. WordPress is one of the most popular free content management systems, written in PHP that allows web developers to build websites for any purpose. The MainWP dashboard plugin will allow you to manage your WordPress websites from one central location and get nearly complete control of all your WordPress based websites from the MainWP Dashboard.

This tutorial was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS, but it should work on any Linux distribution.

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