IMAP or Internet Message Access Protocol is one of the two most commonly used protocols for e-mail retrieval. This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to configure IMAP to use SSL encryption for secure communication on port 993 (by default IMAP uses port 143).
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How to install and configure LEMP (Nginx, MySQL and PHP) server on a Debian 6 (squeeze) VPS
Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server which unlike his ‘friends’, it does not rely on threaded handling of the requests but instead it uses a much more scalable event driven (asynchronous) architecture. This uses a very small and predictable amount of memory under heavy load. Nginx in combination with the simple and very robust FastCGI Process Manager for PHP (PHP-FPM) and the world most popular database server MySQL can give you a lot of power and performance while still using a small memory footprint.
The following article looks at how to install and configure this stack on one of our Debian based VPSes.
How to Reset MySQL Root Password
We will show you, how to reset MySQL root password. If you assigned a root password previously but have forgotten it, you can assign a new password. Resetting the root password of MySQL server, is fairly easy task, and it can be accomplished in less than 10 minutes.
What’s the difference between unmanaged, semi-managed and managed VPS hosting?
There are essentially three types of VPS hosting in terms of management and support: unmanaged, semi-managed and fully managed VPS hosting. In an unmanaged VPS environment, the entire server administration and the responsibilities of necessary configuration and management of the virtual server are responsibility of the end user. Users need to have some knowledge in administration of Linux servers. The security of an unmanaged virtual server is entirely the user’s responsibility as well. Users have to keep the server’s services and website scripts up to date by upgrading whenever a new version is released to keep the server secure and avoid vulnerabilities.
Install and configure SVN WebDAV server on a CentOS 6 VPS
This how-to looks at how to install and configure a SVN (subversion) WebDAV accessible repository server using Apache and a CentOS VPS. What is SVN? It is an open-source centralized version control system, which can track and store the history of files and directories in its repositories with the ability to examine the history of how the data changed and if needed to recover some older versions of the data.
Security Tips for Your Server
One of the first things you should do when running a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is to secure your server as much as possible. This way you will protect your server against various security attacks which may harm or even destroy your data.
Here are a few easy tips on how to improve the stability and security of your Virtual Private Server: