Setup a mailserver with Exim and Dovecot on a CentOS 7

exim vpsThe following article will guide you through the steps of installing and setting up a mailserver using Exim and Dovecot on a CentOS 7 VPS.

For this tutorial, we are using one of our CentOS-based managed VPS hosting plans, pre-installed with minimal CentOS 7 OS.

What is Exim?

Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.

What is Dovecot?

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations.

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Basic MySQL database administration on a Linux VPS

mysqlMySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS). It is open-source and it is used by many individuals and organizations. If you are using our Linux VPS hosting services, you are most likely using MySQL as a database system. Therefore, it is important for you to know how to operate with your database system when you need to make some changes in your databases. Today, we will have a very simple task – to teach you how to work with your MySQL database system using these simple commands from your Linux VPS.

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Install Croogo on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB

CroogoIn this post, we will cover how to install Croogo on an Ubuntu VPS with the latest versions of Nginx and MariaDB. Croogo is a free, open-source, content management system released under the MIT license, written in PHP and it’s built upon the CakePHP MVC framework. This should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04.

 

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Install Magento on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS and Enable Redis as Back End Cache

magento vpsMagento Community Edition is a flexible and robust open source content management system for e-commerce web sites. In this tutorial we will show you how to install Magento and configure Redis (an open source advanced key-value cache and store) for back end caching on an Ubuntu VPS.

Download the latest version of Magento from www.magentocommerce.com, extract it and move the Magento installation to the ‘/var/www/html/magento/’ directory on your VPS:

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Install and run DokuWiki the most versatile Wiki on a CentOS 7 VPS

Install and run DokuWiki the most versatile Wiki on a CentOS 7 VPSIn the following article, we’ll explain how you can install and run DokuWiki on a CentOS 7 server. We support DokuWiki running on all our SSD VPS hosting plans and with our DokuWiki hosting stack, you’ll get DokuWiki pre-loaded on your virtual server, making your wiki up and running in no-time.

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What is DokuWiki?

DokuWiki is considered to be the most versatile open source Wiki software application which is proven to meet your demanding wiki needs.

DokuWiki does not require a database and it’s extremely simple and easy to use. Check out DokuWiki features to learn more.

System Requirements?

  • Webserver such as Apache, Nginx etc..
  • PHP server version 5.2 or later
  • PHP-GD / Image Magick library

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Install and configure Linux Malware Detect on a CentOS VPS

maldetLinux Malware Detect or just Maldet is free and open source malware scanner for Linux machines. It scans the machine for known malwares and quarantine suspicious files or simply alert you for their presence.  It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks and generates signatures for detection. In addition, threat data is also derived from user submissions with the LMD checkout feature and from malware community resources.

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Install HumHub on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB

humhubIn this guide we will show you how install HumHub on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB. HumHub is a flexible open source social network application written in PHP on top of the Yii framework. HumHub has a bunch of great features such sharing documents and files, responsive design, user spaces, activity stream and many more. This should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

 

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