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 LEMP on Debian 6 (squeeze) VPS

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Status: Deprecated

This article, “How to install LEMP on Debian 6 (squeeze) VPS” covers a version of Debian 6 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 For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained.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 Debian 6, we highly recommend that you contact RoseHosting fully managed support to upgrade or migrate to a supported version of Debian 6 for you.

See Instead: This guide might still be helpful as a reference, but may not work on other Debian releases. We strongly recommend using a guide written for the version of Debian you are using. The following RoseHosting tutorial outlines how to install LEMP on Debian 8.

Nginx MySQL and PHP on DebianVPSTo install LEMP on Debian 6, you need to start with Nginx, a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. 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.

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What’s the difference between unmanaged, semi-managed and managed VPS hosting?

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semi-managed VPSThere 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.

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Install and configure SVN WebDAV server on a CentOS 6 VPS

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Status: This OS is no longer supported

This article, “Install and configure SVN WebDAV server on a CentOS 6 VPS” 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, we highly recommend contacting RoseHosting’s fully managed support to upgrade or migrate to a supported version of AlmaLinux.

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Security Tips for Your Server

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securityOne 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:

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VPS Hosting vs Shared Hosting

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vps hosting vs shared hosting

A VPS or a virtual private server provides a complete resource isolation, meaning the hardware resources like CPU, hard disk space and memory assigned to a specific virtual server are dedicated and fully available to it at all times. In a shared hosting environment all accounts on the physical server share the resources of the host server and many resources are capped and limited in order to save the host server from unexpected overuse.

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