How to Access Your Guest OS from Host OS in Virtualbox 6.1
Virtualbox is a very important desktop software for any person in IT. It allows us to spin up environments and run tests on operating systems without the fear of making…
Read More » How to Install Virtualbox 6.1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Virtualbox is a software created by Oracle and allows you to create virtual computers on your computer. This allows you to explore the features and run tests on different OS…
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How to install OpenLiteSpeed on Ubuntu 20.04/19.10/19.04
OpenLiteSpeed (OLS) is one of the fastest web servers around and can support hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. Its runs in Unix like systems and is built as an…
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A comparison of web servers: Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed and Microsoft IIS
A web server is a software that responds to clients requests over the world wide web. A client (e.g browser) sends a request for information and the web server responds…
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How to Install OpenLiteSpeed on Centos 7
OpenLiteSpeed (OLS) is one of the fastest web servers available in the market today. Here, we’ll show you how to install OLS from its repository in Centos7.6, configure PHP and…
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How to decide which hosting plan is best for you
If you are hosting a website for the first time, you may wonder which package is best for you. Here, we’ll have a look at how you can arrive at…
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How it is working from home in Kenya
2020 has got us all by shock: WW3 fears at the start of it and now Corona virus. Since my birth over 2 decades ago, I have not heard of…
Read More »Use Case: Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling with Nginx
When deploying high traffic sites/web apps, often times you’ll be faced with a dilemma on whether to use horizontal scaling or vertical scaling. Horizontal scaling is the use of several…
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Overview of Load Balancing with Nginx
Load balancing is a way of distributing traffic to computing resources such as servers or other network components. The technique is primarily used to improve performance: by increasing concurrency and…
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How to create a HTTP load balancer with Nginx
Introduction A load balancer is simply a piece of hardware or software that distributes traffic between two or more servers (upstream/backend servers). Load balancing is a common technique used to…
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