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How to install your Joomla website

Here's a guide to setting up Joomla using cPanel: Preparation Web Hosting: Ensure your cPanel account includes MySQL database and FTP access. Download Joomla! Visit the official Joomla! website and download the latest version compatible with your hosting. Installation We'll cover two methods: Manual Installation: Uploading files and creating a database. Softaculous Installer (if available): A one-click installer offered [...]

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The best practices to secure WordPress

Securing a WordPress website is crucial to protect it from various threats such as hackers, malware, and data breaches. Following best practices ensures that your website remains safe and your data remains secure. Below is a comprehensive tutorial on the best practices to secure your WordPress site: Keep WordPress Core, Themes, and Plugins Updated Regularly [...]

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How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack On CentOS 7

Introduction A LEMP software stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents the Linux operating system, with the ENginx web server (which replaces the Apache component of a LAMP stack). The site data [...]

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Why is our Web Hosting WordPress ready?

When looking for somebody to host your website, it's essential to ensure that your web hosting provider's servers are configured correctly to provide the best experience. We completely understand that it is critical to make sure you are happy, and that your users are getting the best experience whilst browsing your website. In addition to [...]

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How To Install And Configure mod_deflate On CentOS 7

Introduction Mod_deflate is an Apache module which allows output from your web server to be compressed before being sent to the client. Once the size of your site content is compressed, its size is smaller, and clients are able to download it faster. This is valuable not only for clients with lower bandwidth, but it [...]

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How To Add Swap on CentOS 7

Enable SWAP on your CentOS 7 Server One of the best ways to make your server more responsive and guard against out-of-memory errors or applications crashing is to add SWAP space. SWAP is an area of storage drive where the Operating System can temporarily store data that it can not hold in memory. This provides [...]

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How to install and configure PHP Zend Opcache

What is Opcache you ask? Opcache is a PHP extensions that will help to improve server & applications performance. There are many popular opcode caches like eaccelerator, xcache, apc, etc.  Opcache is recommended in almost all App and Server production environments as a method of caching and handling PHP tasks. All you need is disk or [...]

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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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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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