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 Sensu on Ubuntu 18.04

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Install Sensu on Ubuntu

Sensu is an open-source monitoring solution that has the capability to monitor different environments, especially for mixed environments like public, private, and hybrid clouds. Sensu also provides numerous plugins that can be used as what they call “Sensu checks”. These plugins monitor the health of services, server resources, and collect different server metrics from different services. It also provides alerts and notifications.

It is developed using the Ruby language. It utilizes RabbitMQ as the intermediary for the messages, and Redis for data-caching and storage.

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How to Install Mezzanine CMS on Ubuntu 18.04

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Install Mezzanine on Ubuntu

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mezzanine CMS on Ubuntu 18.04. Mezzanine CMS is a free and open-source content management system, built using the popular Django framework. It provides an intuitive interface for managing pages, blog posts, form data, store products, along with many other types of content. Unlike other popular CMS applications, all of these functionalities are available by default, without the need to use any additional modules or add-ons.

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How to Install Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04

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Install Nginx on Ubuntu

Nginx is a free and open-source high-performance web server. It is also well-known for its reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming. Configuring it is made simple, and it has low memory usage. A common misconception is that Apache is easier to use than Nginx – however, Nginx is just as easy-to-use as Apache. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nginx on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

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How to Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04

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Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu

phpMyAdmin is one of the most popular and widely-used web-based database management tools on the market. It is a free and open-source PHP application that allows users to manage single or multiple SQL database servers, both locally or on a remote server using a web browser with easy to use graphical user interface. It can be used to handle the administration of MySQL as well as MariaDB databases. You can create, modify, and delete databases or tables, execute SQL queries, manage your MySQL user accounts and privileges, and much more, all from your web browser. Today, we are going to show you how to install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04.

We have an updated version of this tutorial – How to Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04

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How to Install Vtiger CRM on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS

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Install Vtiger CRM on Ubuntu

Vtiger CRM is a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform that aids interactions between the company and its customers.  It provides an intuitive customer experience and delivers outstanding performance for marketing, sales, and support teams which in return provides better customer retention for the company.

Some of the key features provided by Vtiger CRM:

  • Provides API Functionality
  • Account & Contact Management
  • Customer Support Services
  • Inventory Automation
  • Reporting and Statistics
  • Social Media Integration
  • Supports Data Import and Export

Vtiger CRM offers an open-source version of its platform which is supported continuously by communities and developers. It is developed using PHP, and it utilizes Apache as a web server and MariaDB as the database server.

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How to Install RainLoop Webmail on Ubuntu 18.04

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Install RainMail Webmail on Ubuntu

RainLoop Webmail is a simple, modern, and fast web-based email client. Written in PHP, RainLoop provides an easy way to check your emails using your web browser. It comes with full support of IMAP and SMTP protocols (SSL, STARTTLS), sieve scripts support, integration with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Dropbox, a multi-level caching system, plugins support, keyboard shortcuts support, and many other additional features.

The installation is quite simple. If you follow our instructions carefully, you can finish the RainLoop Webmail installation in less than 10 minutes. Let’s get started.

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How to Install GitLab on Ubuntu 18.04

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Install GitLab on Ubuntu

GitLab is an open-source web-based application used for managing Git-repositories for collaborative development. Its main purpose is managing multiple software development projects and its files among members of a team or an organization. It can also provide issue and time tracking, reviews, branching, and many more development-related features that use Git functionality.

GitLab is maintained and developed using Ruby on Rails by GitLab Inc. It is licensed under an open source (MIT) license, as well as including some proprietary licenses. Our GitLab Hosting is fully managed and is perfect for this purpose.

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How to Install Kirby CMS On Ubuntu 18.04

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Install Kirby CMS on Ubuntu 18.04

Kirby is a Content Management System (CMS) that does not use a database. Kirby will adapt your projects and help you easily build your personal or professional website in only a few minutes. Kirby CMS offers incredible features that may not be available in other PHP based CMSs. Kirby is configured with YAML files and does not need a special template engine like Twig, and works with pure PHP and HTML. In this article, we will show you how to install Kirby CMS on Ubuntu 18.04.

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