Jeff Wilson

An experienced Linux veteran with many years of experience. Helping other Linux admins with frequent Linux and business-related blog posts on the RoseHosting blog. Techie by choice. Loving nature and travel. Happily married and father of two lovely children.

How to install Zabbix on Ubuntu

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How to install Zabbix on Ubuntu

We’ll show you, How to install Zabbix on Ubuntu. Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. It uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 to store data.
Its backend is written in C and the web frontend is written in PHP. Zabbix offers several monitoring options such as checks that can verify the availability and responsiveness of standard services such as SMTP or HTTP without installing any software on the monitored host. Installing Zabbix on Ubuntu, is fairly easy task and should not take more then 15 minutes.

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How to install Oxwall on a Linux VPS

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oxwallOxwall is an open-source social networking software platform which is very flexible and very easy to use. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as database to store its data. Many plugins are available in the Oxwall Store in order to improve the basic functionality of the social networking platform. Today, we are going to show you how to install Oxwall on a Linux VPS.

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How to install Kanboard on CentOS 7

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How to install Kanboard on CentOS 7

We’ll show you, How to install Kanboard on CentOS 7. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Kanboard on a CentOS 7 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM 5.6 and Nginx. Kanboard is a PHP open source project management software that use the Kanban methodology. Kanboard focus on simplicity and minimalism and it is designed for small teams. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for CentOS 7 VPS. Installing Kanboard on CentOS 7, if fairly easy task and it should not take more then 10 minutes to install.

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How to install Drupal with PostgreSQL on a Debian 8 VPS

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drupallogoIn this tutorial we will cover the steps needed to install the latest stable version of Drupal on your Debian 8 VPS along with PostgreSQL.

Drupal is very popular and easy to use open-source CMS (content management system ) written in PHP. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and used for managing, publishing and organizing a website, regardless of whether it is a personal blog or a corporate website.

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How to Install Dotclear on a Debian 8 VPS

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dotclear vps In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install Dotclear on a Debian 8 VPS.
Dotclear is an open source web publishing software written in PHP, created to allow anyone publish websites, regardless of their technical skills.
This tutorial was tested and written for a Debian VPS, but it should work on any Linux distribution.

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How to secure WordPress on a Linux VPS

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wordpress-logoWordPress is by far the most popular tool for creating original websites and blogs. In fact, more than 60 million people use WordPress to run their websites or blogs. Having in mind its popularity, WordPress is a common target of different types of attacks. Hackers will try to exploit any WordPress weakness in order to steal important user information, install malicious software etc. and that is why it is important to secure the WordPress installation on your Linux VPS.

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Install Jetty on a CentOS 7 VPS

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jetty-logoIn the following article we are going to explain how you can install Jetty on a CentOS 7 VPS.

Jetty is a Java HTTP (Web) server and Java Servlet container and provides support for SPDY, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations. It is often used for machine to machine communications, within larger software frameworks. Jetty is developed as a free and open source project as part of the Eclipse Foundation.

Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. It can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters.

Jetty has the following features:

  • Full-featured and standards-based
  • Open source and commercially usable
  • Flexible and extensible
  • Small footprint
  • Embeddable
  • Asynchronous
  • Enterprise scalable
  • Dual licensed under Apache and Eclipse

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