How to Update PHP From 5 to 7 (NGINX/Apache, CentOS 7)

Introduction This tutorial will cover on updating PHP 5* to 7, with NGINX or Apache. Prerequisites Before we start, we’ll need to add a repository because PHP 7 isn’t considered... Read more

Securing and Hardening the CentOS 7 Kernel With Sysctl

Introduction Sysctl lets the user fine tune the kernel without having to rebuild the kernel. It also will apply the changes immediately, thus the server won’t have to be rebooted... Read more

How to Monitor Ports and Services with MonitorIX on CentOS6

MonitorIX This article will go over the steps on how to install MonitorIX and configure it to log a custom port, in this case the Minecraft port (25565). MonitorIX can... Read more

How to Install NextCloud 9 on CentOS 7

NextCloud, just as its name suggests, is a promising alternative of another open source file hosting solution OwnCloud. In this article, I will show you how to install NextCloud on... Read more

How to Install Harbor on CentOS 7

Harbor is an open-source enterprise-class registry server that stores and distributes Docker images. Harbor extends the open source Docker Distribution by adding the functionalities usually required by an enterprise, such... Read more

Setup RethinkDB Cluster On CentOS 7

Introduction RethinkDB is a NoSQL database that stores data as JSON documents. It has a super intuitive query language and has features commonly available in traditional RDBMS like “table joins”... Read more

How to Install OrangeScrum on CentOS 7

OrangeScrum is a free and open source project management tool which is widely used in small and medium businesses. In this article, I will walk you through the procedure of... Read more

How to Install TextPattern CMS on a CentOS 7 LAMP VPS

Using a Different System? How to Install TextPattern CMS 4.6.2 on a Debian 9 LAMP VPS How to Install TextPattern CMS 4.6.2 on a Fedora 26 LAMP VPS How to... Read more

Install GUI Environment on CentOS 6

Managing your server with SSH alone can be intimidating. Good thing for us is that Vultr has a View Console option. To fully utilize Vultr’s VNC console capabilities, you can... Read more

How to Deploy Google BBR on CentOS 7

BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT) is a new congestion control algorithm which is contributed to the Linux kernel TCP stack by Google. With BBR in place, a Linux server can... Read more