Moving from Shared to VPS Hosting – Everything You Need to Know

from shared to vps hosting

Most people start out with shared hosting. Every shared hosting plan has a control panel with it. The most popular and widely-used shared hosting control panels are cPanel and DirectAdmin. They have great user interfaces and they are easy to work with. Perfect for beginners. Sooner or later, everyone outgrows their shared hosting account and they move to something more powerful, either a VPS (virtual private server) or a dedicated server. When they do the switch, they don’t know what to expect and what do to. In this article, we are going to write about our experience with thousands of customers and everything you need to know about the switch from shared hosting to a VPS.

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How to Configure OpenSSH on CentOS 7

how to configure openssh on centos 7

configuring openssh on centos 7This is a tutorial on How to Configure OpenSSH on CentOS 7. Secure Shell or SSH is a protocol which allows users to connect to a remote system using a client-server architecture. The login session is encrypted and very secure. Today we are going to show you how to configure and use OpenSSH on a Linux VPS using CentOS 7 as an operating system. Configuring OpenSSH on CentOS 7 is a fairly easy task if you carefully follow the tutorial below.

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How to install Suhosin on a Linux VPS

suhosinSuhosin is an advanced protection system for scripts and the PHP core itself. It is an open source PHP patch used for protecting the users and servers against numerous vulnerabilities and security flaws in the PHP basaed applications including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc…

In this article we will guide you through the simple and fast process of installing Suhosin from source on a Linux VPS.

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How to install Chive on a Debian Wheezy VPS

logo-bigChive is another web based tool for managing MySQL databases just like the popular phpMyAdmin. It is free and open source tool written in PHP. Chive is used by thousands of customers because its administration is very easy and the user-interface is fast and simple. If you are looking for a replacement for phpMyAdmin, you should definitely install Chive on your Debian VPS.

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How to install and configure Squid proxy on your CentOS VPS.

how-to-install-and-configure-squid-proxy-on-your-centos- vpsThere are a more reasons for using proxy, but we are going to focus on web content filtering and/or anonymous surfing. A proxy – proxy server actually represents another machine through which internet requests are processed, or simply an intermediary between my machine and the Internet. When using proxy server, my computer sends the requests to the proxy server, the requests are being processed and I am being delivered the content I was looking form.

So, let’s see few simple steps on how to install Squid, the most popular proxy server out there on your CentOS VPS. As for the next part, we will see some configuring options.

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