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Installing and Securing Webmin on your Centos Web Server

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This tutorial is a continuation to Setting up Centos 7 as a web server on Time4VPS and migrating websites from a shared hosting provider published earlier on this blog. Administering Linux servers can be very boring, and spending your days typing in commands in black terminal screens will eventually get to you. Having tools that automate lengthy command line tasks and … [Read more...] about Installing and Securing Webmin on your Centos Web Server

Backing up your vps or shared hosting server on your Home Laptop or PC with Windows 10 (Part 2)

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In the first part of this tutorial, we have setup a private/public key pair, and enabled password-less ssh access to our vps or shared hosting server. In the second part, we will setup a bash script to copy (dump) the contents of our databases on the server, and copy (incrementally) the website files to a local folder on our windows machine. Open the Ubuntu bash on your … [Read more...] about Backing up your vps or shared hosting server on your Home Laptop or PC with Windows 10 (Part 2)

Migrating opensource Zimbra 8.6.0 on Centos 6.8 to Zimbra 8.7.1 on Centos 7 safely and with no downtime !

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Zimbra to Zimbra (zcs to zcs) migration A bit of history for the context After running a Zimbra mail server in a 500Gb Virtual Machine, for about 4 years, the server started feeling a bit crowded and with  #df -h reporting less than 50Gb of space left, it was time to move to a larger machine. The version I was (and still am) running is the open source version, there are no … [Read more...] about Migrating opensource Zimbra 8.6.0 on Centos 6.8 to Zimbra 8.7.1 on Centos 7 safely and with no downtime !

Shared Hosting or VPS ?

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  Shared hosting today is cheap, every month there is an excuse to offer discount coupons, and incentives to get you to open an account and have your own domain and website up and running within minutes. The GUI, usually driven by CPanel, is very easy to use, even for the uninitiated (less geeky) amongst us. You can setup DNS pointers using a very user friendly GUI, and … [Read more...] about Shared Hosting or VPS ?

Setting up Centos 7 as a web server on Time4VPS and migrating websites from a shared hosting provider

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As you might have already read in my previous blog post, I took the plunge, and setup a VPS server on Time4VPS running Centos 7. This blog post is about how I went about setting up and configuring the Server to become a web server, and how I migrated websites from a shared hosting provider (Bluehost in this case) to the new server without any downtime whatsoever. At this … [Read more...] about Setting up Centos 7 as a web server on Time4VPS and migrating websites from a shared hosting provider

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