Tutorials Archives - RoseHosting

How to Speed up Your Nginx Website

September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will explain how to tune and optimize your Nginx configuration file to help speed up your website’s performance.

Speed Up Optimize Nginx Web Server on Linux Server VPS

Nginx is a fast, lightweight, and high-performance web server in charge of serving at least 40% of all websites globally. When compared to other web servers, Nginx is primarily known for its speed, with it capable of handling thousands of concurrent connections with ease. Nginx can also be used as a load balancer, a reverse proxy, and an HTTP caching server. It uses little resources and is ideal for delivering static content.

To help further improve performance, Nginx has a built-in caching system that allows dynamic requests to be cached directly on the server for future requests, thereby reducing the load on your CPU and system in general.

How to Install phpMyAdmin on CentOS 8

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

This tutorial explains the process of installing one of the most popular open source application for managing MySQL databases – phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin is a free and open source web-based application written in PHP, used to easily manage MySQL databases through your favorite web browser instead of needing to use the MySQL command line interface.

PhpMyAdmin allows users to create, modify, rename, and delete databases, tables, or fields, execute SQL commands through the browser, import and export tables to a wide range of formats, create users and modify their privileges, and much more… Thanks to this tool, we will almost never need to use the MySQL command line again. We are going to install phpMyAdmin on a CentOS 8 VPS with Apache, MariaDB, and of course, PHP. Let’s begin.

How to Install and Integrate BigBlueButton with WordPress Including BigBlueManager

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up a BigBlueButton server on Ubuntu 16.04 and integrate it with WordPress using the BigBlueButton plugin.

BigBlueButton is a free and open-source web conferencing system that can be used for online learning, online meetings, and webinars. It’s based on HTML5 and runs entirely within your web browser. BigBlueButton provides high-quality audio, video, and screen sharing using the browser’s built-in support for web real-time communication (WebRTC) libraries. It can be also integrated into WordPress, allowing bloggers to create and manage meeting rooms to interact with their readers.

These excellent features make BigBlueButton one of the best tools for tutors, teachers, schools, colleges, universities, and even entire school districts. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest version of BigBlueButton is 2.2 and it can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04. The BigBlueButton authors plan to support Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 for the next release of BigBlueButton, but their current recommended version is 16.04. Let’s get started with the installation. Let’s get started with installing BigBlueButton on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

How to Install Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

In this article, we will show you how to install the Let’s Encrypt client on your Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, issue an SSL certificate for your domain, and configure it with the Apache web server.

Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority organization (CA) that allows anyone to obtain a free SSL certificate with simple and automated commands. In this tutorial, we will use a tool called certbot, which is an official part of EFF’s effort to encrypt the entire Internet. Thanks to this convenient tool, setting up an SSL certificate to protect your website’s visitors and improve your website’s security has never been easier. All SSL certificates provided by Let’s Encrypt can be used for production/commercial purposes without any costs or fees. Let’s begin with the installation and setup.

How to Install a Mail Server with PostfixAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04

August 18, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we’ll be covering the process of setting up a mail server with Postfix, Dovecot, Postfixadmin and MariaDB on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS. But first, what is PostfixAdmin?

PostfixAdmin is an open-source web-based application written in PHP that’s used to create virtual domains and email accounts for a Postfix mail server. Using PostfixAdmin, we can manage mailboxes & aliases, set quotas, configure vacation/out-of-the-office messages, and more. Plus, the web-based interface gives you the user-friendliness of a browser window with a UI.

PostfixAdmin allows us to use virtual email addresses and virtual mailboxes, so we do not need to create a new system user account for each email address. Considering all of these details, PostfixAdmin is a versatile tool and can be used for almost all of your mailing needs. This tutorial goes quite in-depth and may take some time to configure everything properly. Let’s get started with the installation steps.

How to Use Puppet Modules to Create a LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 20.04

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

Puppet is a powerful open-source configuration management tool that can be used to deploy, configure, manage, and maintain a server while accessing it remotely. Puppet is written in Ruby and helps you to deploy and manage a single server – all the way up to thousands of physical and virtual servers – all from a central location.

Puppet modules are collections of manifest files and data that allow Puppet to load and find classes, facts, functions, defined types, and tasks. With Puppet modules, you can install and update packages, create files and directories, and/or make any configuration changes quickly and easily. It aims to perform and automate almost any task, such as launching a LAMP environment, setting up virtual hosts, etc.

In this tutorial, we will show how to create a LAMP module to deploy a LAMP stack on the Puppet agent machine, both of which are Ubuntu 20.04 VPSes. Let’s begin.

How to Install Flectra on CentOS 8 with Nginx as a Reverse Proxy

August 7, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

Flectra is an open-source, powerful and customizable business management tool that helps you grow your business through its powerful modular design covering all essential aspects of most businesses.

Flectra integrates the capabilities of CRM and ERP systems into a single package. Flectra helps you modify and adapt your system to meet the unique needs of your business. This makes it the ultimate business app suite that gives you a scalable business management platform which provides you with all the freedom to make the software work for you and your business setup.

Flectra offers several features that cover almost every use case, including e-Commerce, Accounting, Sales Management, Websites, Marketing, Inventory Management, MRP, Reporting, Timesheets, and lots more.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Flectra on a CentOS 8 VPS using Nginx as a reverse proxy.

How to Install Open Classifieds on CentOS 7

August 3, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Open Classifieds on a CentOS 7 VPS.

Open Classifieds is a free, open-source, and powerful web application that can be used to create classifieds, advertisements, and listings sites, all in just a few minutes. It is simple, easy to use, secure, SEO-friendly and easy to administrate.

Open Classifieds also provides a beautiful web-based admin interface that helps you manage your website easily and effectively. It comes with many features, including SEO-friendly optimization, multi-language support, friendly URLs, robots.txt support, custom fields, social login, and lots more. Let’s get started with the installation.

How to Create a Backup of MySQL Databases Using mysqldump on Ubuntu 20.04

July 17, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a backup of MySQL databases on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, and create a backup of the entire /var/lib/mysql directory.

We will create the backup of the databases using MySQL’s command, aptly named mysqldump. After that we will then show you how to perform a backup of the /var/lib/mysql directory where MySQL have been located. Performing regular backups of your database and database server is vital to protecting the data that you have on your server. This way, in case something goes wrong on your Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, or if MySQL breaks for some reason (incompatibilies or otherwise), you’ll have a safe backup that you can revert to and prevent the loss of your precious data.

Once you create a backup of MySQL databases and save them on your server or on a remote location, you can then always be able to restore the databases later from this backup, if needed. Creating a backup of MySQL database is essential for any website owner, and it should be done on a regular basis. Just follow the simple steps in this tutorial and your data will be redundant in no time. Let’s begin.