Jeff Wilson, Author at RoseHosting

How to install LAMP on CentOS 6 with phpMyAdmin and APC cache

July 24, 2025July 4, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

Status: This OS is no longer supported

This article, “How to install LAMP on CentOS 6,” covers a version of CentOS that reached end of life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020, and is no longer supported. For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained. If you are currently operating a server running CentOS 6, we highly recommend contacting RoseHosting’s fully managed support to upgrade or migrate to a supported version of AlmaLinux.

See Instead: Although this guide may still be helpful as a reference, it may not be compatible with current AlmaLinux releases. The following RoseHosting tutorial outlines how to install LAMP on CentOS 7.

Install ownCloud on CentOS 6

July 18, 2025July 1, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

Status: This OS is no longer supported

This article, “Install ownCloud on CentOS 6,” covers a version of CentOS that reached end of life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020, and is no longer supported. For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained. If you are currently operating a server running CentOS 6, we highly recommend contacting RoseHosting’s fully managed support to upgrade or migrate to a supported version of AlmaLinux.

See Instead: This guide might still be helpful as a reference, but may not work on other CentOS releases. The following RoseHosting tutorial outlines How to install ownCloud 8 on a CentOS 7 VPS.

How to install Tomcat 7 + JDK 7

June 3, 2022June 7, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

This how-to will show you how to install Tomcat 7.x and JDK 7.x (Java Development Kit) on a CentOS VPS.

You could get one of our Java Hosting plans and have everything already installed and configured but if you want to do it yourself just follow the tutorial below.

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Password Protecting Directories With Nginx

June 3, 2022June 3, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

The first thing you will need to do is create a file called .htpasswd (it doesn’t have to be named that way). The following command creates a new .htpasswd file and stores a record in it for user tom.

htpasswd -bc /var/www/yourdomain.com/.htpasswd tom password

To create another user:

htpasswd -b /var/www/yourdomain.com/.htpasswd john password

MySQL Performance Optimization

June 3, 2022May 31, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

MySQL has two primary storage engines: MyISAM and InnoDB.
Each has its own performance characteristics and considerations but generally MyISAM is good for read-intensive data and InnoDB is good for transactional data.

How to improve your Debian VPS security by using DenyHosts and Logwatch

December 8, 2022May 27, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

What is DenyHosts?

It is a python script intended to be run by GNU/Linux system administrators and users to help thwart SSH server attacks which are also known as dictionary based attacks and brute force attacks. It has the ability to run as a daemon and it can automatically block attackers and prevent them from gaining access to your server.

Nginx virtual host – Nginx server block

June 3, 2022May 25, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you how to create an Nginx Virtual Host, also known as an Nginx Server Block. In one of our previous tutorials we explained How to install and configure LNMP (Nginx, MySQL and PHP) server on a Debian 6 (squeeze) VPS, now we’re going to look at how to set up a new server block (virtual host) for each new domain.

How to configure IMAP with SSL

June 3, 2022May 22, 2012 by Jeff Wilson

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).