Nginx Load Balancing
Nginx can be used as a load balancer to multiple back-end web servers using the proxy functions. This guide will cover the basics of configuring the proxy server to pull from the other web servers. It assumes you already have completed the initial install of Nginx. If you do not already have a install please […]
How To Configure A Nginx Reverse Proxy With Apache
Nginx can as a reverse proxy to Apache. Nginx does best at serving static content extremely fast whereas Apache can process dynamic content and use all of the various Apache modules and .htaccess that are typically the web standard of hosting. This guide assumes you already have a Apache installation and would like to add […]
mod_proxy Installation and Configuration on Apache
Introduction mod_proxy is a proxy/gateway for the Apache server. It allows you to direct Apache requests to other sites and/or ports within the web server. It can also support load balancing algorithms as well. This guide assumes you already have Apache 2.2 installed from source to build the modules. To read more about it you […]
mod_fastcgi Installation on Apache 2.2
What is mod_fastcgi? mod_fastcgi is an Apache module for interfacing with CGI programs allowing a server to handle more requests at one time. It does this by keeping an instance of php running in the background. When apache receives the request it forwards it to FasctCGI. It can increase performance and reduce memory useage over […]
Setup Nginx Virtual Hosts On CentOS
Introduction Nginx is a high performance web server. ANginx virtual host can be setup to host as many domains as your server can handle. If you have not already please see our guides on Nginx Compile From Source as well as PHP-FPM With PHP7 From Source. These 2 guides will lay the foundation of core services for […]
How To Setup Nginx To Use SSL With LetsEncrypt
What is LetsEncrypt? Let’s Encrypt is a certificate Authority that launched in 2016 providing free TSL SSL certificates that renew every 90 days. There are several validation methods for LetsEncrypt to verify the domain you are generating the certificate for is one you actually control. In this guide we will be utilizing the webroot method. […]
How To Use LVM To Create A New Logical Volume
What is LVM Logical Volume Managment (LVM) is an abstraction layer between physical devices and the file systems which they create. This can make disk management easier by adding abilities to shrink or expand filesystems by just adding additional physical devices no longer being limited to a single physical device as the volume can span […]
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