We’ll show you, How to Install Postal Mail Server on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. Postal is a feature-rich mail server application widely used as an alternative to Sendgrid, Mailchimp, Mailgun and other similar SMPT servers. You can use Postal to send out bulk emails, newsletters etc. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but it was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. (more…)
What is Server Management?
We’ll explain to you, What is Server Management? Like many other terms in the server management and managed services industry, server management is vaguely used and can mean different things when used by different server management service providers.
Virtual Users and Domains with Sendmail on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, we will show you how to configure Sendmail to use a virtual user table that’ll allow us to set up user-specific, domain-wide email aliases with multiple domains on our server. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 16.04.
How to Install Sentora on Debian 8
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Sentora on a Debian 8 VPS.
Sentora is a web-based hosting control panel which is very easy to install and use.
How To Upgrade Your Ubuntu VPS to 16.04 LTS
We’ll show you, How To Upgrade Your Ubuntu VPS to 16.04 LTS. When an Ubuntu OS release reaches its ‘end of life’ it receives no further maintenance updates, including critical security upgrades, so it is highly recommended to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version. In this tutorial, we will show you how to upgrade your Ubuntu VPS from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version (Xenial Xerus), skipping the non-LTS releases in-between.
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How to install ownCloud 9 on Ubuntu
In today’s tutorial, we will explain how to install ownCloud 9.0 on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation. ownCloud is a self-hosted, open source, file sync and share app platform written in PHP. With ownCloud you can sync and access your files through a web interface, create contacts, calendars and bookmarks, easily share your data across devices, preview and edit your text files, documents and images and much more. It’s a great alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive and similar file-sharing services.
How to enable GZIP compression in Nginx
We’ll show you, How to enable GZIP compression in Nginx. Lately, it’s all about optimizing your website and making it as fast as possible. Especially since search engines like Google consider page load time as a ranking factor. And, of course, the load time is a huge factor in user experience.
Aside from using a fast, SSD-powered VPS, you can also do some other tweaks and settings to speed up your website, like enabling gzip compression in Nginx.
Here we’ll discuss one method that will increase the transfer speed by reducing the size of the files with compression. This method will also bring up the benefit of reducing the bandwidth that is used in this process and will make the hosting cheaper to the owner (ie, you can use a hosting plan with fewer resources. The best part about – it’s easy to do and it will only take you a few minutes.
In this article, we’ll share with you how to do the above with the Nginx gzip module. As it is stated this module will help you to compress your files with the gzip compression method. It is known that this method will reduce the size of the transmitted files by half or in some cases even more. (more…)
How to Install, Configure and Deploy a Meteor.js App on Ubuntu 16.04
MeteorJS or simply Meteor is an open-source framework based on JavaScript. It is written using Node.js and allows you to build apps for any device (web, iOS, Android, or desktop) using the same code. In this tutorial, we will show you how to deploy a simple Meteor application on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 as an operating system.
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How to Fix 403 Forbidden Error in WordPress
Are you one of those website owners that are dealing with the 403 Forbidden error on your WordPress site? This error is one of the most dreadful ones that a WordPress beginner can come across. Everyone who spends some time online has come across an HTTP status error. Few of them can be frustrating, like getting a 403 Forbidden error on your own WordPress website. This error code is shown when your server permissions are not allowing access to a specific page.