System Admin

How to Install Moodle 3.3.x on CentOS 7

Moodle is an open-source Learning Platform or course management system (CMS) - a free Open Source software package designed to help educators create effective online courses. This tutorial will cover the process of installing the latest stable release of...

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Monitoring Solutions for Your VPS

In this article, you will learn about a selection of the monitoring solutions available for your Vultr server. Depending on your operating system choice, there are various ways that you can monitor resource usage. Many of the solutions presented here will...

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How to Setup ionCube Loader on CentOS 7

ionCube Loader is a PHP extension that allows a web-server to execute PHP files that have been encoded using ionCube Encoder and is required to run the majority of commercial PHP Applications. In this article, we will be installing ionCube Loader on Cent...

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Update Linux Kernel Without Rebooting Using LivePatch on Ubuntu 16.04

Keeping your Vultr VPS up-to-date is important for security and performance. A core part of this process is ensuring that your system runs with the latest Linux kernel release. However, until now, updating your kernel meant rebooting the server after inst...

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Install Plesk On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)

Plesk is a proprietary web host control panel that allows users to administer their personal and/or client's websites, databases, email and domains. It allows for easy point and click administration/maintenance through a browser. Prerequisites A freshl...

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Install Plesk On Debian 7 (Wheezy)

Plesk is a proprietary web host control panel that allows users to administer their personal and/or client's websites, databases, email and domains. It allows for easy point and click administration/maintenance through a browser. Prerequisites A freshl...

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Install Plesk On Debian 8 (Jessie)

Plesk is a proprietary web host control panel that allows users to administer their personal and/or client's websites, databases, email and domains. It allows for easy point and click administration/maintenance through a browser. Prerequisites A freshl...

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How to Install and Configure OTRS on CentOS 7

OTRS, also known as "Open-source Ticket Request System" is a free and open source web-based ticketing system. In this tutorial, we will install and configure OTRS on CentOS 7. Prerequisites A newly deployed Vultr CentOS 7 server instance. A non-root u...

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How to Install and Configure OTRS on Ubuntu 16.04

OTRS, also known as "Open-source Ticket Request System" is a free and open source web-based ticketing system. In this tutorial, we will install and configure OTRS on Ubuntu 16.04. Prerequisites A newly deployed Vultr Ubuntu 16.04 server instance. A no...

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Upgrading the FreeBSD Operating System Using Freebsd-update

In this article, we will upgrade the FreeBSD operating system using freebsd-update. The freebsd-update utility can be used to update your instance with the latest patch release or you can also choose to upgrade to either a minor or major release. Step 1:...

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