How to install Froxlor on CentOS 5.5 with Nginx server

For Apache server, there are more than enough control panels for you to choose from such as cPanel, Direct Admin, Plesk and so on.   However, there are not that many choices for Nginx.  If you have already installed your Nginx sever with the LNMP  package I introduced, you might find this post helpful. Froxlor is [...]

How to setup PPTP VPN Client connection

What is VPN? A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure such as the Internet to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization’s network. It aims to avoid an expensive system of owned or leased lines that can be used by only one [...]

Go OpenVZ or Go Xen for VPS?

Paravirtualization-capable hypervisors include  Xen, Virtuozzo, Vserver, and OpenVZ (which is the open source and development version of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers), but the most common types used are OpenVZ and Xen.  If you are a first time VPS user, you might want to know which one to go for: OpenVZ or Xen? OpenVZ is an operating [...]

How to Set Up LNMP on Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS

As I announced that Rockia.com has been moved to Linode VPS, I received numerous emails asking how they can do that.  My answer is that if you are professional in Linux, you can just follow the tutorials in Linode Library; I strongly believe that there are more tutorials than you actually need to set up [...]

How-to: Set Up Parked Domain on Netfirms for Google Adsense

A friend of mine asked me if he could use Google Adsense without purchasing a hosting plan; the answer was obviously “yes” because Google has prepared Adsense for parked domains. In this post, general domain registration with Netfirms and Google Adsense are not taking into consideration; I am writing because Netfirms is not one of [...]

How to Set Up Telus.net Email Account in Office 2007

Over the last weekend, I received a job to set up an email account for a customer who purchased a desktop from the store I am working at. His email account was provided by telus; I initially thought it was going to be fairly easy to set up because while I googled online, I found [...]

IP-changed notifier without crontab

I wrote about how to notify myself upon IP changes via email for Home Servers quite a while ago. The theory was simple; just one PHP script to detect the current IP address and compare it with the one stored in a text file. If the IP was changed, then update the text file and [...]

Dec, 31 2011 0 Comments Full Story
How to minimize website downtime while domain is being transferred

How to minimize website downtime while domain is being transferred

First off, most of us hate downtime, especially on our own websites (duh!). From time to time we might need to transfer the domain names from one registrar to another, however, we might experience some difficulties to keep the website online. The tricky part is that most domain registrar will either keep your original nameserver [...]

Dec, 28 2011 0 Comments Full Story

Notify myself upon IP Changes via email for Home Servers

I have set up a server at home and I do most of the PHP testing upon that server.  Other than HTTP server, it also serves as a FTP server and a remote desktop (I am a Mac user, and I can connect back home whenever I need Windows). As I noted before, most the [...]

May, 19 2011 0 Comments Full Story
Upgrade from LNMP to LNMPA

Upgrade from LNMP to LNMPA

I have been using LNMP (Linux Nginx MySQL and PHP) for a year and the way I set up using LNMP automatic shell compiler really allow me to spend more time on the actual blogging and not fighting with the server configuration. If you happened to follow my blogging, you might have noticed that I [...]

Apr, 28 2011 23 Comments Full Story

How to Reset Mysql Root Password for LNMP

I  set up my server with the LNMP shell, and I happened to forget one of my local server’s MySQL root password. (I don’t know how this could happen, but it just did. ) It seems that I couldn’t use the the normal method to reset the password, weird. If you reach this post by [...]

Mar, 28 2011 0 Comments Full Story

Concurrent User Session with Windows 7 SP1

OK, I just updated my only Windows 7 desktop at home to SP1.  This computer is mainly serving as a remote desktop just in case I need to grab something from home or I have a program that I must need to run on Windows. I set up the computer with concurrent user session enable [...]

Feb, 28 2011 3 Comments Full Story
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