Thomas @VirtuBox - AnyStack

How to install a Mastodon instance on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Have you already the new open-source social network Mastodon ? I have launched few days ago my own instance to contribute to this project. If you want to launch your own instance, here a quick tutorial to install mastodon on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server with Nginx as a reverse-proxy

Tutorials

How to upgrade Ghost

If you are using a self-hosted Ghost, you may have sometimes to upgrade it to the new release. To do that, you have at first to download the latest Ghost release. For that create a new folder next your current Ghost folder and download Ghost : mkdir newghostfolder && cd newghostfolder wget

sysadmin

Self-Hosting made easy with Cloudron

Because there is nothing better than self-hosting, you are may looking for a way to manage your apps easily and to be able to host yourself all your web apps ? I have tried several solutions in the past, but there was always something wrong and I was looking for something

Tutorials

How to setup Magento 2.1.7 with EasyEngine - Nginx & Redis-cache

If you have already setup redis-server for object-caching with WordPress, you are maybe looking for something more powerful to setup ? Magento 2 will be the perfect benchmark for your server. It's an open source e-commerce software and content management system for e-commerce websites based on the PHP Zend Framework. Magento

EasyEngine

Good bye WordPress - Welcome Ghost !

I'm using WordPress for few years now, but that's always the same problem, WordPress require plugins to have some functionalities and plugins make WordPress running slower. Even with an advanced caching system like redis, that's always a lot of work to make wordpress running fast and safe. So I have

server

Optimize easily your WordPress images without any plugin

You want to improve your pagespeed score by optimizing your images in WordPress ? But you don't want to pay a subscription for a plugin ? If you are using a VPS or a dedicated server, you don't need any plugin to optimize all your images easily. For that you can use

hosting

Making WordPress faster by running wp-cron with Linux

WordPress use wp-cron to check updates for themes, plugins and some other process but it could have an impact on your website speed because WordPress execute it on every page-loading. So if you have a lot of traffic, it will (no benchmark proof at the moment) delay page loading for

Docker

How to use Nginx as reverse proxy with Docker

I have already write some articles [https://anystack.xyz/tag/easyengine/] about EasyEngine [https://easyengine.io], and I'm really in love with this command line tool, because it make Nginx easier to use than Apache. But I haven't talk about all functionality of EE yet. If it provide you the

hosting

NIXStats - Server and domains monitoring

Today a very small post to talk about NIXStats [https://nixstats.com], a new server and domains monitoring service currently in beta and totally free. You can monitor your server using a bash script or a python script and you domain to receive an alert in case of downtime. You

server

HTTP2 & Web Optimization - How to have a fast website in 2016

Few years ago, the HTTPs protocol was slower than the http, due the the initial handshake of any SSL transaction. But with the HTTP2, there are several improvements available and some rules have change when we talk about web optimization. Most of the PageSpeed tools will recommend you to use

HOW CLOUDFLARE SPEED UP AND PROTECT YOUR WEBSITE – PART 2.

Cloudflare SSL : 3 security levels You are maybe aware than https will become a standard for all websites in the next few years, because it's encrypt the connection between your visitors and your website, making it safer for them. With Cloudflare you have 3 level of SSL security. The first

linux

New VPS for the Blog - Setup Guide

I was using a VPS with Plesk Onyx to host the Blog, but even with Redis in a Docker container to make it faster, it wasn't enough ... So I have setup a small VPS on my dedicated server with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using VMware vSphere 6. I will make

How to make your code more beautiful on WordPress

Because I have started using it only few days ago, I have to make a small article about it. If you are using TinyMCE on WordPress, you should already have more functionality for the code rendering in an article. But if you want to have beautiful colors and perfectly readable

server

How Cloudflare speed up and protect your website - Part 1.

You don't know what is Cloudflare ?So let's see how cloudflare make your website loading faster, and why you should already use it for all your websites. 1. ) Cloudflare DNS - Free & Fast Cloudflare provide at first one of the best DNS hosting service available. And to make a website

WordPress

Remove Query strings and add featured images in WordPress feeds

A small post today to share with you a small tips to remove all the queries strings from WordPress static assets, and also to add featured images of your posts in the WordPress feeds. 1. Go into your WordPress dashboard > Appearance > Editor 2. Then find the file functions.php of

linux

Linux & SSD : How to speed up your VPS

When you want to buy a VPS, most of them use SSD, because a SSD have a better capacity for reading/writing than a Hard Drive and it also have a response time up to 40x faster than HDD. But there are some small configuration to edit to get the

nginx

Ubuntu - Blazing fast WordPress with Nginx php7 redis

You have buy a VPS to speed up WordPress, but you are using a control panel and it's not faster than before ? In this tutorial, you will learn how to setup a Blazing fast WordPress with Nginx php7 and redis cache. This will require to use the the command linux

plesk onyx

[Review] Plesk - A powerful web server control panel

Like anyone who want to manage easily multiple websites on a VPS or a dedicated server, i was looking for a control panel with good performance and ready for production. I have tested many control panels : (following panel are ranked by me and it's only my personal opinion) 1. CentOS