COMMON WEB HOSTING MISTAKES – Critical Pitfalls
Finding your first host can be intimidating. Although hosting will seem simple once you’ve been around awhile, at first it’s all very opaque. Part of the problem is simply that there’s a lot of misinformation out there. There are hundreds of hosting providers, and all of them are trying to convince you that they’re the…
Benefits of Cloud Hosting It’s aggravating when your website has poor performance. Especially when it’s because of other websites overloading the resources of your shared server. With Cloud hosting, even though you share server space, resources are split across multiple servers. This provides a flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient solution that keeps your site performing well even…
PHP is the most important part of LAMP. By default, PHP version 5.4 is available in CentOS 7 repositories. Steps to install PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 & 7.4 on CentOS 7 Connect using putty to log in to Server and use below command to install epel and utils repositories Now download and install remirepo repository…
What is Apache Server Apache Server provides secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services. Apache Server is available in Cent OS repository. Once packages are up-to date Once apache is installed, it is time to open the port 80 to allow apache server request over HTTP. To allow apache server request over HTTPS…
SELinux is a security feature available in Linux kernel and by default it is set to disabled. SELinux feature has 3 modes: enforcing mode passive mode disabled mode To check the current mode type-in the following command by default it will show as SELinux=disabled Steps to enable SELinux Change the status of SELinux service in…
Firewall can be easily installed using yum install command in CentOS
The default port to access using SSH is port 22. This default port can be changed in Linux to any custom port not used by other applications. Open SSH configuration file using the above command and locate the line where port is updated as #Port 22 Uncomment the line by removing “#” from the beginning…