Jeff Wilson 
In this tutorial we will show you how to install, configure and use OpenSSH on Ubuntu 16.04. SSH (Secure Shell) is a protocol that allows you to access a remote machine securely while OpenSSH is a set of tools based on the SSH protocol. Today we will show you how to install and configure OpenSSH on a Linux VPS using Ubuntu 16.04 as an operating system.
Nginx is a free, open-source and high-performance HTTP server. It is widely used for load balancing, mail proxy server, generic TCP/UDP proxy server, it provides reverse proxy configuration, media streaming and much more. It is designed to efficiently serve both low and high traffic websites and it is a very popular alternative to the Apache web server. Nginx is powering a lot of heavily loaded websites like Yandex, DropBox, NetFlix, WordPress.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Nginx on Debian. Installing Nginx on a Debian server is a very easy task, and if you carefully follow all the instructions provided below, you should have your Nginx server up and running in less than 10 minutes. This tutorial has been written for and tested on Debian 9 VPS.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Zabbix 3.4 on CentOS 7. Zabbix is an open source network monitoring software designed to monitor and track the status of various network devices, servers, virtual machines and other network hardware. It can use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 as a backend data storage. Zabbix back-end is written in C and the web front-end is written in PHP. Zabbix offers multiple monitoring options such as simple checks to verify the availability and responsiveness of standard services such as IMAP or HTTP without installing any software on the monitored machine.
In this tutorial we will show you how to enable and connect the Django admin interface on a CentOS 7 VPS. Django is one of the most popular open source web application frameworks. It is written in Python by experienced developers. Django was originally designed for news websites because it can be easily scaled to handle very heavy traffic and it allows developers to make web application development faster and create complex, database driven websites without having to start coding from scratch. Django is a cross-platform application and supports all popular operating systems, but this tutorial was written especially for CentOS 7. At the time of writing, the latest Django version is 1.11.12.
In today’s tutorial, we will show you how to change the root password in Linux. The root account on a Linux machine is the highest authority account on the system. It has control over everything, can delete and modify anything, and has permission to run any program. Simply put, the root account can do anything that the system supports. Typically, casual users never need to use the root account, while more experienced users need the root account more often, especially if they spend a large amount of their time at a terminal. So, even if you don’t use the root account much, it helps to put a more secure password so that malicious users don’t log into the root account and wreak havoc on your system.
Want to deliver your WordPress emails using a SMTP server? We’ll show you how to use SMTP server to send your WordPress emails. WordPress uses PHP mail function to send emails about new user registrations, updates, comments, contact forms, password reset, etc. Due to the nature of PHP mail function, the originated emails are usually get into junk folder. Some popular email provider like gmail.com, yahoo.com aol.com, hotmail.com, would end up blocking the emails from your WordPress based site. In this tutorial, we will show you how to properly configure WordPress to send emails using SMTP. There are many plugins for doing this, but for now we are going to use Post SMTP plugin. There are some advantages we can take when using this plugin if compared to the other similar ones, like the ability to see email log, ability to export-import configuration, etc.
In this post we will show you how to install Joomla 3 on CentOS 7, with MariaDB 10.2, PHP-FPM 7.1 and Nginx. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS) for publishing web content and online apps. Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs and it is used all over the world to power millions of websites and applications of all shapes and sizes. Joomla is a free and open-source, php-based CMS system with wide range of features for publishing content. This guide should work on other RedHat-based systems as well but was tested and written for an CentOS 7 VPS. The process of installing Joomla 3 on CentOS 7 is fairly easy and it shouldn’t take more then 10 minutes.
ownCloud is a popular open source enterprise web application used for data synchronization and file sharing. It allows users to easily manage their files, contacts, calendars, to-do lists, and more, making it a great alternative to to the popular Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc. cloud platforms. ownCloud is a cross-platform application and supports all popular operating systems, but this tutorial was written especially for Ubuntu 16.04. At the time of writing the latest ownCloud version is 10.0.7.