How To Add ngx_pagespeed to Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04
ngx_pagespeed, or just pagespeed, is an Nginx module designed to optimize your site automatically by reducing the size of its resources and hence the time the clients’ browsers need to load it.
How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04
How fast a website will load depends on the size of all of the files that have to be downloaded by the browser. Reducing the size of files to be transmitted can make the website not only load faster, but also cheaper to those who have to pay for their bandwidth usage. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to configure Nginx installed on your Ubuntu 14.04 server to utilize `gzip` compression to reduce the size of content sent to website visitors.
How To Back Up an Ubuntu 14.04 Server with Bacula
This tutorial will show you how to set up Bacula to create backups of a remote Ubuntu 14.04 host over a network connection. This involves installing and configuring the Bacula Client software on a remote host, and making some additions to the configuration of an existing Bacula Server.
How To Build Go Executables for Multiple Platforms on Ubuntu 16.04
The Go programming language comes with a rich toolchain that makes obtaining packages and building executables incredibly easy. One of Go’s most powerful features is the ability to cross-build executables for any Go-supported foreign platform. This makes testing and package…
How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on Ubuntu 12.04 Servers
Replication allows your databases to distribute load among more than one computer. While MariaDB natively supports master-slave replication, which allows you to offload read operations to a a number of slave servers, this master-master replication, which allows you to write data to any node, is not implemented. With a Galera cluster, MariaDB incorporates some patches that allow for master-master replication. We will be setting this up using Ubuntu 12.04 servers.
How To Configure BIND as a Private Network DNS Server on Ubuntu 14.04
In this tutorial, we will go over how to set up an internal DNS server, using the BIND name server software (BIND9) on Ubuntu 14.04, that can be used by your Virtual Private Servers (VPS) to resolve private host names and private IP addresses. This provides a central way to manage your internal hostnames and private IP addresses, which is indispensable when your environment expands to more than a few hosts.
How To Configure Jenkins with SSL Using an Nginx Reverse Proxy on Ubuntu 22.04
In this tutorial, you will configure Nginx as a reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt for TLS encryption to securely direct client requests to Jenkins.
How To Configure Remote Access for MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04
This tutorial walks you through configuring a MongoDB installation to securely allow access from a trusted remote computer. This will involve updating your firewall rules to provide the remote server access to MongoDB’s default port and changing Mongo’s configuration file to update its IP binding setting.
How To Configure Varnish for Drupal with Apache on Debian and Ubuntu
In this the cloud provider article, as a part of a series to help developers with scaling, we will be talking about configuring Varnish with Drupal. This will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes users to load your Drupal based website, and increase the simultaneous serving capacity of your the cloud provider VPS by passing requests through the Varnish Cache software first.
How To Create a calibre Ebook Server on Ubuntu 14.04
Calibre is a free and open source ebook manager.
