In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Lighttpd on your Ubuntu 14.04 server. For those of you who didn’t know, Lighttpd is a fast and secure web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web servers, effective management of the CPU load, and an advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Outp...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Fail2Ban on your Ubuntu server. For those of you who didn’t know, Fail2Ban is a utility that is used to detect and prevent brute force intrusion. By scanning logs for certain actions, such as repeated failed login attempts, Fail2Ban is able to alter firewall configurations to halt further events. This article assumes you h...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Webmin on your Ubuntu server. For those of you who didn’t know, Webmin is a free control panel for managing VPS. Webmin is a web-based interface that is used to manage the VPS web hosting server. With the help of a website, you can set up a user account, apache, DNS & file sharing, and other actions. Webmin is very suit...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install phpMyAdmin on Nginx. For those of you who didn’t know, phpMyAdmin is the web-based administration tool for managing the MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle servers, it helps in performing database activities such as creating, deleting, querying, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc. This article assumes you have at least basic ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to Test Internet Connection Speed via Command Line on Linux. For those of you who didn’t know, Speedtest.net is a pretty good place to check your internet speeds. But there is an even simpler way. Using the speedtest-cli command-line app, you can actually check your current broadband speeds via Terminal. For those of you who didn’t know, speedtest-cli i...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up an Nginx Virtual Host. For those of you who didn’t know, Virtual hosts such as Nginx are used for running two or more domains or websites using just one server which you can learn more about in this hosting fundamentals course. Here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to create a virtual host or server block on the Nginx web server. This ar...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to fix 504 gateway time-out on the Nginx. If you are running a website that is powered by Nginx, you might have come across the 504 Gateway Time-out error. This error message indicates that the server was unable to complete the request made by the client in the specified time frame. There are several possible causes of a 504 Gateway Time-out error in Nginx,...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to repair a corrupted MySQL database table. Sometimes it happens that your database gets corrupted due to many reasons like it does not get restored properly or the server gets rebooted while updating the database etc you have tried to repair it using phpMyAdmin and it does show that it has been repaired but it is not. However, with the right steps and tool...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable Gzip Compression on Nginx. For those of you who didn’t know, Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and highest-traffic sites on the internet. It is more resource-friendly than Apache in most cases and can be used as a web server or a reverse proxy. So today I’m going to s...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create an Ubuntu DEB Package. Occasionally, we are dealing with software installation from source code by running configure, make, and make install. When we do it that way, we can not reverse the process (uninstall) it. To overcome that issue, we can build the source code into a DEB Package. DEB, Debian packages are standard Unix archives that include t...