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If you’ve used a VPS before, then you already know how to access your VPS. However, you might have just migrated to a VPS from shared hosting and are still developing the skills necessary for VPS management. If this is the case, don’t worry. I’m going to show you two ways to access your VPS, […]
Earlier, I’d written about when to move from shared hosting to a VPS. However, migrating to a VPS from shared hosting is no easy matter. You need to know what you’re getting into if you intend to manage the VPS independently. Even with a fully managed NameHero VPS, there’s no escaping the tasks you need […]
Here at NameHero, we give you the freedom to configure your VPS as you wish. But many people aren’t ready for this kind of management, so they opt for a “pre-packaged” VPS instead. These providers use the infrastructure of companies like DigitalOcean and Amazon or Google Compute and install pre-packaged applications that you can manage […]
When navigating through the shell, I’m often logged in with dangerous privileges. I try and minimize the potential damage by logging in as a user with sudo privileges, but it can still be a nerve-wracking experience knowing that an accidental click of a key or a moment’s thoughtlessness can bring your entire system crashing down. […]
If you’re not careful, your Linux system will become full of unused and discarded packages you installed a long time ago, and don’t use anymore. What’s worse, often when you install a particular program, it comes with a list of dependencies that get installed along with it. Ideally, you would want to get rid of […]
Updated: July, 7 2023 If you’re using the latest version of PHP, your site will automatically have OPCache enabled. This is great news for us because we no longer have to install it manually. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to manage your OP cache and check if it’s working correctly. What Is OPCache? […]
I had struggled for a while to find the answer to this vexing error clogging up my CSF logs. I’ve written before about the ConfigServer Security & Firewall plugin for VPS and dedicated servers, and how to add log files for monitoring. But whenever I opened my Apache httpd error_log file, it was filled with […]
Updated: May 1, 2023 One of the ways you can speed up your dynamic page generation is by increasing the amount of RAM your database uses for storing its queries and temporary objects. For WordPress sites, this is called the InnoDB buffer pool size. A lot of people on shared hosting don’t have the permissions […]
The ConfigServer Security and Firewall plugin for your VPS does a better job at managing your server’s firewall than the default option. In addition to being more user-friendly, it has a bunch of useful features that I wouldn’t want to do without. One of the more useful features is the ability to monitor a long […]
By default, all NameHero VPS servers come installed with the ConfigServer Security & Firewall (csf) plugin. But if you don’t have it on your server, I strongly suggest that you install it. It’s invaluable. After setting up the CSF firewall on your VPS server, you might see a message in the CSF logs talking about […]