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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

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

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