Jeff Wilson 
This tutorial explains the process of installing an open source web analytic application named Matomo (formerly known as Piwik) on a CentOS 7 VPS. Matomo helps you gather and analyze important information about your website visitors. Matomo features tracking of visits, goals, conversion rates, A/B Testing, funnels, heatmaps, downloads, keywords, and many more. Let’s get started with the installation of Matomo on your CentOS 7 server.
One of the first solutions to achieve faster load times of your WordPress CMS is to decrease the size of your page.The simplest method to reduce the size of your website, and improve the time to first render of your web pages, is to enable GZIP compression. Enabling GZIP compression on your server can significantly reduce the amount of time to download the requested resource. Today we will show you how to enable GZIP compression on WordPress.
We will show you how to set up Nginx with HTTP/2 Support on Debian 9. HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol and offers many benefits. Enabling HTTP/2 on Nginx running on Debian 9 server, is pretty easy task if your carefully follow the tutorial below. Let’s get started!
Normally, if you create a folder on your site, you can access all the files inside it just by visiting the file’s URL. Sometimes however, you want to password protect directories in cPanel – either you’re testing a new design that you’re not ready to show the world, or it’s a staging area for your site. Or maybe you just want to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive parts your site. Like the “wp-admin” area of WordPress for example.
Laravel is a popular, open-source PHP web application framework. It has an expressive, elegant syntax and provides tools needed for large, robust applications. Deployer is a modular open-source PHP deployment tool packed with time-saving features and optimizations. It supports deployment of many popular frameworks, including Laravel, Symfony, Zend Framework and CodeIgniter. In this tutorial, we will show you how to deploy a Laravel application with Deployer on Ubuntu 16.04.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create and delete a user on Debian 9. In the initial server setup, there is only one user account created and that is “root” user account. This root user has the highest privileges and has access to all files and commands on the system. But having too many privileges and running as root user is not always recommended and if you are not careful enough it can have destructive consequences for your system.
That’s why it is recommended to create additional users with limited privileges for your most common tasks. A new user account should also be created for any other user that will be using your server. Additionally, we will also show you how to give those users root privileges when necessary through the sudo command.
In this tutorial, we are going to discuss the process of installing Java on Debian 9. Java is a general-purpose programming language developed by Sun Microsystems before being bought by Oracle, who maintain and develop Java to this day. Distinguished as a fast, secure, and reliable language available on all platforms, Java can be established on anything from laptops to game consoles, to computers and cell phones. Since Java code is compiled as bytecode before being executed in a Java Virtual Machine (also known as a JVM), this allows Java programs to be run on any computer architecture with no compatibility barriers.
Today we are going to show you some common firewall rules and commands in iptables. Iptables is a useful command line utility for configuring Linux kernel firewall. Iptables contains five tables: raw, filter, nat, mangle and security. Each table consist of chains. A chain is a list of firewall rules which are followed in order. Let’s get started with some common firewall rules and commands in iptables.