Introduction Ruby based Chef is an open source framework & tool which allows great automation of your server management, as well as quick installation of preconfigured VPS without the need for you to remember precisely how to configure them.This is very important as it is now commonplace to have different testing, database, production and development servers…
Introduction A novel method for infrastructure management, Salt is a completely open source configuration management and remote execution tool. It is not only simple enough to be operational within minutes, but is also scalable enough for managing a large number of servers and is speedier enough for communicating with all of them within seconds. Salt is…
Yii framework offers a number of features, an important one being a cache management system. It permits saving both your SQL/Active Record queries and static data that can aid in saving a great amount of page loading time if used carefully. In this guide, we will learn caching of Queries and Data. Given below is the procedure for…
This tutorial guides you to do the initial server set up with Debian 7. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to: Create a new user Set up root privileges for the new user Access your server with new user Root Login As you know, root login is not meant for regular…
About Varnish An HTTP accelerator, Varnish, is a helpful tool to speed up a server, particularly at those times when a site is experiencing very high traffic. It operates by diverting visitors onto static pages as and when possible and only draws on VPS whenever any requirement comes up for an active process. Setup A…
This tutorial guides you to do the initial server setup with CentOS. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to: Set up a new user with root privileges Configure SSH for making secure connection Access your virtual private server with new user Root Login Since root login on regular basis is…
About Varnish An HTTP accelerator, Varnish, is a helpful tool to speed up a server, particularly at those times when a site is experiencing very high traffic. It operates by diverting visitors onto static pages as and when possible and only draws on VPS whenever any requirement comes up for an active process. Setup For…
Introduction Nginx is a free and open-source high performance web server software, popular for its stability, simplicity in configuration and low resource consumption. In this tutorial also, the user needs to have root privileges for execution of commands. Please refer to the tutorial to do the initial server setup for CentOS. Installation of EPEL For the installation…
About Concrete5 An open source Content Management System (CMS), Concrete5 is developed in PHP. It is a very easy to understand and learn software that has been created with a concept that it should not only aid non-developer site owners in creation and installation of websites, but should also help in operating and managing them…
About Magento Magento software, owned by eBay.inc, is a widely used, open source e-commerce web application created in PHP (5.2.13+). It was made using Zend Framework’s components and a big community contributes towards its development. It can be operated by utilizing Apache web server and it uses MySQL as a storage engine. This guide shows…