Install Nginx + PHP FPM + Caching + MySQL on Ubuntu 12.04

Lot of people are going to use Plegmahost VPS as webservers, a good choice would be Nginx as a webserver. In this topic I’m going to describe on how to install Nginx, PHP FPM and MySQL. Also we’re going to look at Nginx’s caching feature. In this topic we’re using Ubuntu 12.04. First steps Make […]

Better Monitoring Tools For Ubuntu And CentOS

Linux systems ship with monitoring tools by default like top, df, and du that help monitor processes and disk space. Often times though, they are not very user/visual friendly. We’ll be setting up three friendlier versions of the previously mentioned tools (htop, ncdu, pydf) to help better monitor our VM instances. Installation On Debian/Ubuntu systems […]

How To Setup a Shoutcast Server on Ubuntu

With a Shoutcast server, you can setup your own radio station for others to listen. In this guide, I’ll teach you how to setup a Shoutcast server on Ubuntu. Follow the steps below. Step 1: Creating a user For security reasons, we’re going to create a new user: adduser shoutcast Enter the required information and su […]