In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and enable Alternative PHP Cache (APC) on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. It’s a PECL extension that shares the packaging and distribution system with its sister, PEAR. In this post, I will show how to enable APC (...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nginx With ngx_pagespeed on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, PageSpeed (ngx_pagespeed) is an Nginx module created by Google to help Make the Web Faster by rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth. For the installation, we will need to compile Nginx from the source with the PageSpeed module, as Nginx doesn’t support Dynamic...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to fix yum duplicate packages or broken dependencies on the CentOS system. For those of you who didn’t know, Yum is a package management tool for installing, updating, and removing rpm packages on CentOS systems. When you try to install a package with yum command, you may encounter errors for various reasons. This article assumes you have at least basic ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install of XCache for PHP on CentOS. For those of you who didn’t know, XCache is an open-source opcode cacher, which means that it accelerates the performance of PHP on servers. It optimizes performance by removing the compilation time of PHP scripts by caching the compiled state of PHP scripts into the shm (RAM) and using the compiled version straight...
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 switch PHP-FPM listen on Unix Socket. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add 'sudo' to the commands to get root privileges. I will show ...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Fail2Ban on the CentOS server. For those of you who didn’t know, Fail2ban is a security-based application for your Unix-based server. The fail2ban service is commonly used to protect your SSH and FTP from the unauthorized connection. Fail2ban runs as a daemon that uses python scripts to parse log files for system intrusion attempts and adds cus...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Lighttpd on your CentOS 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, Output-Com...
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 web server on the Linux server. If you run an Nginx web server you may have already encountered the annoying 504 Gateway Time-out errors. This is a pretty common error and is generated most probably by the PHP max execution time limit, or by the FastCGI read timeout settings. This article assumes you have at least b...