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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 [...]
How to get unlocked iPhone legally from Carriers
Most of the iPhones are manufacture-locked; that means you will have to stick with whatever telecommunication carrier you were with in order to use your iPhone. Rockia lives in Canada where Fido and Rogers were the first two companies that carried iPhones. Personally, I have been with Fido for a long time. When I got [...]