Jeff Wilson

An experienced Linux veteran with many years of experience. Helping other Linux admins with frequent Linux and business-related blog posts on the RoseHosting blog. Techie by choice. Loving nature and travel. Happily married and father of two lovely children.

How to install and integrate SpamAssassin with Exim on a CentOS 7 VPS

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How to install and integrate SpamAssassin with Exim on a CentOS 7 VPSIn the following tutorial we are going to cover the procedure of installing and integrating SpamAssassin with Exim on a CentOS 7 Linux VPS. Once the set-up is completed, SpamAssassin will be able to scan and mark the emails detected as SPAM.

What is SpamAssassin?

It is a software program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules. It is a very intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email and apply the tests to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods.

 

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Install gpEasy CMS with NGINX and PHP5-FPM on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

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gpeasycmsIn this article we will show you how to install gpEasy CMS on a Ubuntu 14.04 VPS using Nginx web-server and PHP5-FPM.

gpEasy is a simple and powerful CMS. It was designed to be an easy to use, but lightweight and fully functional content management system (CMS).

gpEasy CMS doesn’t require you to setup any databases and allows you to edit your website on the fly since it’s flat-file based.

Nginx is a lightweight but very powerful web server. It’s known to be ultimately stable and high-performance HTTP server.

PHP5-FPM stands for PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager and it is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

We’ll assume that unzip is installed on your Linux VPS. If not, run the following command to install the program:

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Install and run WordPress cached with Redis on a Linux VPS

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redisWordPress page loading speed can be very slow, especially if your site have many visitors and/or you use a lot of plugins. Caching is the best way to improve the loading speed of a WordPress website and overall users experience. In this guide, we will walk you through the basic installation process of WordPress on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. with Nginx, MariaBD and PHP FPM and setting up a Redis cache to boost WordPress performance. This should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04.

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How to install and configure dkim with OpenDKIM and Exim on a CentOS 7 VPS

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how-to-install-and-integrate-opendkim-with-postfix-on-a-centos-6-vpsIn this article we will walk you through the steps of installing and configuring dkim with OpenDKIM and Exim on a CentOS 7 SSD VPS.

You should have a working mail server setup with Exim before proceeding with this tutorial. Check our guide on how to set-up a mail server with Exim and Dovecot on a CentOS 7 VPS if you don’t have setup a mail server yet.

What is OpenDKIM?

OpenDKIM is an open source implementation of the DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) sender authentication system which is an email validation system designed to detect email spoofing by providing a mechanism to allow receiving mail exchangers to check that incoming mail from a domain is authorized by that domain’s administrators. A digital signature included with the message can be validated by the recipient using the signer’s public key published in the DNS.

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Setup a mailserver with Exim and Dovecot on a CentOS 7

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exim vpsThe following article will guide you through the steps of installing and setting up a mailserver using Exim and Dovecot on a CentOS 7 VPS.

For this tutorial, we are using one of our CentOS-based managed VPS hosting plans, pre-installed with minimal CentOS 7 OS.

What is Exim?

Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.

What is Dovecot?

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations.

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Basic MySQL database administration on a Linux VPS

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mysqlMySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS). It is open-source and it is used by many individuals and organizations. If you are using our Linux VPS hosting services, you are most likely using MySQL as a database system. Therefore, it is important for you to know how to operate with your database system when you need to make some changes in your databases. Today, we will have a very simple task – to teach you how to work with your MySQL database system using these simple commands from your Linux VPS.

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Install Croogo on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB

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CroogoIn this post, we will cover how to install Croogo on an Ubuntu VPS with the latest versions of Nginx and MariaDB. Croogo is a free, open-source, content management system released under the MIT license, written in PHP and it’s built upon the CakePHP MVC framework. This should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04.

 

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