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How to install or upgrade PHP from 5.4 to 5.5 on CentOS/RHEL 6/7

CentOS 7 by default installs PHP 5.4. At the end of September PHP 5.4 came to the end of it's life, no longer receiving security updates. A number of systems still run PHP 5.4. This guide will take you through installing PHP 5.5 fresh on a CentOS/RHEL 6/7 machine or upgrading an existing system. New [...]

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Tuning MySQL for Performance with MySQLTuner

MySQLTuner is a Perl script that analyses your MySQL performance and, then generates recommendations based upon the statistics that it has gathered. You should adjust the variables to increase performance. The way, you can tune your my.cnf file to optimise your MySQL server to make it work more efficiently. We cannot guarantee this will work [...]

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Automatically update your website footer year

To start the New Year off, we're answering the question that often comes up in the first week of January – "How do I automatically update my the year in my website footer so I don't have to manually change it?!" It's easy! Just use a simple bit of PHP instead of the date and it [...]

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How to find large files on RedHat, CentOS or Fedora Linux?

Unfortunately in Linux there is no single command that lets you find large files, however with the help of the Find command we can create a list of large files. In this example, we are looking for files over 100mb in the /home directory. Search for files in a directory, and sub-directories cd /home Then, we [...]

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Merry Christmas from 5wire Networks!

All of us at 5wire Networks would like to wish you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 🙂 Thank you for your continued support and business, 2016 plans to be our biggest year and we would love for you to be apart of it! All the best, 5wire Networks

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Fully Redundant, Hot Migration Cloud Servers in Central London

[h1]Central London Cloud Servers deployed instantly![/h1] 5wire Networks are delighted to now be able to provide Cloud Services from our racks located in secure Tier 1 Data Centre facilities in Central London. Our location provides the some of the best connectivity in the UK! Using OnApp, 5wire Networks now provide highly reliable and fault tolerant [...]

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Start selling Web Hosting with our Reseller Hosting today!

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Register, Transfer Renew your Domain

What are domains? A domain name is simply the address that people use to find you or your company on the internet. It is most commonly known as the URL that you type in your browser’s address bar to go to a specific website.

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Can I point my domain to your web hosting?

One of our most common support queries is whether you are able to register a domain elsewhere and use it with 5wire Networks' awesome web hosting plans. The short answer, YES! How do Domain Names & Web Hosting work? Let's break it down into 2 more questions – What is a Domain Name? A domain [...]

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