Website security is very important matter to date, and ModSecurity is one of the best web application firewall out there helping many web masters around the world securing their web application. Already a lot of hosting companies and individual users are using cPanel/WHM to manage their web servers, in this article we will see how we can install and configure…
How to install missing PHP Extensions in cPanel/WHM
PHP is one of the most used server side programming language. Mostly PHP becomes the reason for a website to become slow, for that reason PHP is a modular language and all the PHP modules/extensions are not installed by default so that it can be as light weight as possible. Now different kind of applications have their own customized needs…
How to move Website + Database from cPanel to vestaCP!
In our previous article, we explained how to use vestaCP and explored some of its features. If you haven’t already read the article you can go and read at cPanel Alternative: VestCP. But if you already have an idea on how to use vestCP than its fine to continue with this article. In this article, we will see how to…
How to backup and transfer a Proxmox VM to another Proxmox Node
Moving proxmox virtual machines between different servers became very easy with recent proxmox updates. You can use proxmox web GUI or command line interface to create a proxmox virtual machine backup and than move to a remove server. In this article we will see how to backup and transfer a proxmox vm to another proxmox node, both using GUI and…
How to install Nginx, PHP, PHP-FPM and MYSQL from source to run a wordpress site on Ubuntu 16.04
Many Linux package managers have built in packages for nginx, php and mysql, they are good if you have less experience with Linux, but installing from source will give you more control our installation locations, settings and much more. So today we will see how we can install Nginx and PHP-FPM (from source) and mysql from the package manager and…
How to create Windows VPS in Proxmox through Template!
Manually creating a windows vps (windows server 2008 or windows server 2012) is really a hectic job in proxmox, because you need to manually install drivers as well. I’ve been working with proxmox lately and created some templates so that one can easily clone them. Once the template is cloned it is ready to use. Let see how we can…
cPanel Alternative: VestCP! Complete guide on how to install and use vesta cp
Recently I’ve stumbled upon a very beautiful control panel while installing it for a client, by beautifull, I mean its actually is really beautifully designed and very easy to use as well. Control panel name is VestCP its a grest alternative to cPanel (cPanel costs $15/month for a VPS), since most of the VestCP features are free to use, you…
Host a website on a VPS without any technical knowledge!
One of the major issue these days is how to manage a VPS to host a website (run apache, mysql and other necessary modules required to run a website). How ever if you have very less or no technical knowledge, you can still rent a vps and run multiple sites. Prerequisites You need a VPS, you can buy from 9xhost…
How to setup cloudflare for your domain!
Most of the people know cloudflare is a tool to speed up their site and protect them from DDOS attacks, its true. How ever we can easily manage our DNS through cloudflare as well. Let see how to setup cloudflare for your domain. Step 1: Register on their site Note : If you already have an account, please jump to…
5 Steps to secure newly installed web server
Linux is most popular operating system to be used as web server. Because it servers the purpose very well because it is light weight, secure and can serve a lot of user requests easily. But still their is a room for improvement in case of security since web server is a public service and their is a chance of getting…