Zen Cart is a resource hungry shopping cart software and it has very specific requirements that need to be met in order to operate smoothly and efficiently. Listed below are a few tips to help you get the most out of your Zen Cart based web site:
How to set up LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP) stack on Debian Wheezy
LAMP usually refers to a full featured stack containing the Apache web server, the popular database server MySQL and the well known web programming language – PHP, set up on a Linux Operating System.
But, as of lately we’ve seen a lot of open-source communities and some of the largest internet giants as Google switched to the use of MySQL’s open source drop-in replacement – the MariaDB database server, which is what are we going to install today instead of MySQL.
In the following step-by-step set up manual we will explain how to install a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP) stack on your Debian Wheezy VPS. Let’s begin:
How to install Anchor CMS on a Debian 7 VPS
Anchor CMS is an open-source, lighter-weight and ultra-simple blogging system.It’s written in PHP and comes with markdown support, custom fields, themes, i18n compatibility and many more.
In this blog post we will write about how to install Anchor CMS on a Debian 7 (Wheezy) VPS with MySQL, PHP-FPM and Nginx.
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How to install Serendipity CMS on a Linux Virtual Server
Serendipity is a simple and easy to use CMS (content management system) written in PHP. Serendipity offers more than 80 official templates so your can completely customize your web site according to your needs with a click of a button.
To install and run Serendipity CMS on a Linux virtual server follow the very easy steps described below.
The installation instructions apply to any Linux based server with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) installed on it.
Run WordPress+W3TotalCache with LEMP (Nginx, PHP-FPM+APC and MySQL) stack on CentOS 6 VPS for maximum performance
Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP web-server which unlike some other web-servers, it does not rely on threaded handling of the requests but instead it uses a much more scalable event driven (asynchronous) architecture.
This uses a very small and predictable amount of memory under heavy load. Nginx in combination with the simple and very robust FastCGI Process Manager for PHP (PHP-FPM) and the world most popular database server MySQL can give you a lot of power and performance while still using a small memory footprint.
The following article is all about how to install and configure LEMP Stack on a CentOS 6 VPS and host blazing fast WordPress powered web applications.
How to install Magento on a Linux Virtual Server
Magento is a very popular and easy to manage open source e-commerce web application, completely customizable to every user’s requirements, thus allowing them to create and launch a fully functional online store in minutes. This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Linux VPS. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version is Magento 1.7.0.2.
How to install Elgg on a Linux VPS
Elgg is an open source social networking engine which can be used to build all kinds of social environments. It is a PHP-based application and can easily be installed on a Linux VPS.
This install guide will help you install Elgg and it assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP 5 are already installed and configured on one of our Linux virtual server hosting plans.
Install Fail2ban on CentOS
In this article we will explain how to install fail2ban on CentOS. Fail2ban is a free and open source framework developed in Python. It is an excellent and very helpful tool for stopping the endless brute force attacks on your services and preventing intrusions into your system. Fail2ban scans the log files on your server for repeated password failures and bans the offending IP addresses. Installing Fail2Ban on CentOs is an easy task if you carefully follow the steps bellow.