How to Deploy a Flask App in Ubuntu 20.04 using Apache and Passenger
Flask is a Python micro framework that is very popular. In this guide we will deploy a Flask application on an Ubuntu 20.04 server using Apache Web Server and Passenger….
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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…
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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How to secure PHP for WordPress
WordPress is a Content Management System that runs on PHP and MySQL. It the most popular CMS used worldwide and as such, is targeted most by attackers. In a previous…
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How to harden Apache Web Server on Centos 7
Apache is the most popular web server used in the internet. It is ideal for most situations and allows flexibility for shared environments through the use of .htaccess file. This…
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How to create a local domain for XAMPP in Centos 7/RHEL 7
Instead of using the local domain localhost for your local development environment, you may create a custom domain name, named anything else and use it instead. In this example, we…
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