Setup LetsEncrypt On Linux

LetsEncrypt is a certificate authority with an automated client. In short, this means that you can secure your websites at no cost. That’s right, you can go from http://yourdomain.com to... Read more

Hot Backups with Percona XtraBackup on the One-Click WordPress App

Table of Contents Introduction Prerequisites Step 1: Create a non-root system user Step 2: Check the storage engine Step 3: Create a database user for backup Step 4: Install Percona... Read more

Creating Incremental and Encrypted Backups with Duplicity

Overview While Vultr does have a backup system for entire system images, this works at the block level, and requires that the backup is restored to a VM before the... Read more

Install phpMyAdmin on One-Click WordPress App

Introduction phpMyAdmin is a convenient web-based MySQL database administration tool which can save you tons of time from command driven database management. In this article, I will show you how... Read more

How To Configure WordPress with Redis

Redis is a data structure store. It is popular with WordPress sites because it offers large performance boosts due to its optimized approach at caching. A popular alternative for Redis... Read more

How to Install Snipe-IT on Ubuntu 16.10

Using a Different System? How to Install Snipe-IT on CentOS 7 Are we missing a guide for your target system? Request one, or submit your own! Snipe-IT is a free... Read more

Setup a Keystone.js Server Using Nginx Reverse Proxy on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we will be setting up a web server with a reverse proxy. The CMS we will be using is Keystone.js, a well known web application framework based... Read more

Install phpBB on the One-Click LEMP Application

Introduction At the time of writing, phpBB is the most popular open-source bulletin board software on the web. In this article, I will show you how to install phpBB on... Read more

Setup a Non-root User with Sudo Access on Ubuntu

Having only one user, which is root, can be dangerous. So let’s fix that. Vultr provides us with the freedom to do as we please with our users and our... Read more

Backing Up MySQL Databases

MySQL is the most popular software in the world used for databases. Making sure that you have backups of your database is very important. This practice allows you to recover... Read more