Introduction Website performance plays an important role in providing a fast and smooth user experience. Static files such as CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts can increase page load time if they are not properly optimized. Nginx provides built-in features such as Expires headers and Gzip compression that can help reduce… Continue Reading Enable Expires Headers, gzip compression on nginx

Introduction This document provides a step-by-step guide for installing and configuring Nginx, PHP 7.0, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB on an Ubuntu 16.04.1 server. The setup is intended to provide a complete web application environment where Nginx acts as the web server, PHP-FPM processes PHP applications, and MariaDB provides database services. The… Continue Reading Install Nginx, Php, MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04.1

Securing your website with HTTPS is no longer optional — it’s a baseline requirement for user trust, SEO rankings, and browser compatibility. Let’s Encrypt makes this easy by offering free, automated SSL/TLS certificates through a nonprofit Certificate Authority backed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). In this guide, you’ll… Continue Reading How to Install and Configure Free SSL with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS

Introduction There are situations where you may need to securely access resources on a remote network without setting up a traditional VPN. SSH tunnelling provides a simple and secure way to route your traffic through a remote server using an encrypted connection. Prerequisites Before you begin, ensure you have: Implementation… Continue Reading Tunnel Setup on Windows Without a VPN Using PuTTY

Organizations often need an internal messaging platform for team communication without relying on external services. After evaluating multiple options, we found that Openfire provides a simple and reliable way to deploy a chat server within a private network or over the internet. This guide walks through installing and configuring Openfire… Continue Reading Deploy your own chat application on network

Introduction Boto is a Python library that allows you to interact with Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Python. It can be used to automate various AWS-related tasks and operations. In this article, we will explain how to install the Boto library on a Windows machine using Python and pip. The… Continue Reading How to install Boto on Windows

Introduction Backing up MySQL databases is one of the most critical responsibilities for database administrators and DevOps engineers. While full database backups are useful, there are many scenarios where backing up individual tables provides greater flexibility, faster recovery, and reduced storage consumption. In this guide, you’ll learn how to automate… Continue Reading Automate MySQL Table-Level Backups to Amazon S3 with Encryption

Restoring a large MySQL database through phpMyAdmin can often fail due to PHP limitations such as memory_limit, post_max_size, and max_execution_time. Using the MySQL command line is a faster and more reliable method, especially for large database backups. This guide explains how to restore a MySQL database in XAMPP using the… Continue Reading Restore Database on Xampp from command line

Introduction Setting up a reliable and high-performance web server is one of the first steps in hosting dynamic web applications. The LEMP stack—Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM—is a popular choice due to its speed, stability, and efficient resource utilization. Although CentOS 7 has reached its end of life, many organizations… Continue Reading Install Nginx, PHP-fpm, Mariadb on Centos 7

Introduction ResourceSpace is an open-source Digital Asset Management (DAM) system used to organize, manage, search, and distribute digital assets such as images, videos, documents, and audio files. It is widely used by organizations, educational institutions, and media companies to maintain a centralized repository of digital content. This guide explains how… Continue Reading ResourceSpace Installation on Ubuntu Server