How to Install Docker on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Docker on a CentOS 7 VPS.

Docker is a software development platform which makes it easy and simple to run applications in a container. It’s a kind of virtualization technology that makes it simple to develop and deploy applications inside of neatly packaged virtual containerized environments. Docker containers can be deployed to any machine without any compatibility issues, so the software stays system agnostic, simpler to use, less work to develop, and easy to maintain and deploy. Let’s begin the installation.

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How to Install Jetty on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Jetty 9 on a Linux VPS running Ubuntu 18.04.

Jetty is an open-source HTTP Servlet Server written entirely in Java. It is designed to be lightweight, high-performance, embeddable, extensible, and flexible, thus making it an ideal platform for serving dynamic HTTP requests from any Java application. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Feng Office on a CentOS 7 VPS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Feng Office on a CentOS 7 VPS.

Feng Office is a commercial open-source web-based collaboration platform written in PHP. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will install Feng Onsite, which is a self-hosted Feng Office solution. The install process shouldn’t take longer than 10 minutes, so you’ll be ready to go with Feng Office right away. Let’s begin installing Feng Office.

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How to Install Mastodon on Debian 9

In this tutorial, we will guide and walk you through the process of installing Mastodon on a Debian 9 VPS.

Mastodon is an open-source free social network based on the open web protocol. It uses Ruby on Rails for the back-end, and React.js and Redux for the front-end. This social media platform is a lot like Twitter, with a focus towards text and media sharing. This platform being open-source means that you can run a private social network for your and your friends to use privately and with no ads.

This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well, but it was tested and written for a Debian 9 VPS. The install process shouldn’t take too long, the longest part being the compilation process. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Etherpad on Debian 9

In this article, we will show you how to install Etherpad on a managed Debian 9 server.

Etherpad is a real-time editor that is web-based and comes as an open-source package. This application allows users to simultaneously edit documents in real time and to see the differences through the use of colored text. Etherpad also has a chat box that allows users to easily communicate between one another, further improving productivity. This won’t take very long to install, so let’s get startedz

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How to Install CiviCRM on Ubuntu 18.04

In this article we will show you how to install WordPress, as well as deploy CiviCRM on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management (CRM) specifically designed for the needs of non-profit, non-governmental, and advocacy groups. It is developed and maintained by a growing community of contributors and is designed to manage information about an organization’s members, event registrants, donors, subscribers, grant application seekers, funders, and case contacts. CiviCRM can be deployed in conjunction with either WordPress, Drupal or Joomla to track contacts and their relationships to projects and initiatives.

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How to Install pip on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install pip on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

Pip is a package management system which can be used to install and manage packages written in Python. Python is a programming language that allows you to perform web development, software development, system administration, scientific and numeric data analysis, and much more. The Python Package Index (PyPI) hosts thousands of third-party modules for Python and you can install any of these modules using the pip package manager. Installing Pip on Ubuntu 18.04 is a very easy task, and if you follow our instructions carefully, you will have pip installed on your Ubuntu 18.04 VPS in just a few minutes. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install Apache CouchDB on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and set up Apache CouchDB on a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04.

Apache CouchDB is a free and open-source NoSQL database solution. Apache CouchDB has a document-oriented NoSQL database architecture and is implemented in the concurrency-oriented language Erlang; Apache CouchDB uses JSON to store data with documents, it uses JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and it uses RESTful HTTP for its API. CouchDB works smoothly with all latest modern web and mobile applications. All of this makes for a pretty seamless database experience. Let’s get started with installing CouchDB.

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