by Richard W | Jul 7, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Nginx is a great web server. I am using it on other blogs I owned online. It’s probably the second most popular web servers in used today.. and growing rapidly. Some will argue that Nginx is more resource-friendly than Apache2 and can be used as a reverse-proxy...
by Richard W | Apr 27, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux
One long awaited feature that was recently released as part of Ubuntu 16.04 is the ability to dock ot move the Unity Launcher to the bottom of your screen. In previous version of Ubuntu, the launcher was installed at the left side of your screen with no easy way to...
by Richard W | Apr 22, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” was just recently released and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to do an in-place upgrade easily. An in-place upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04 is quite easy. All you need is a stable Internet connection and running few...
by Richard W | Apr 19, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Wordpress
I recently had to install Let’s Encrypt certificates on one of my websites hosted on a Ubuntu server running Apache2 web server. The process was painless and easy.. and this brief tutorial is going to show you what steps I took and what to look out for when...
by Richard W | Mar 28, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
This brief tutorial shows you how to easily and quickly change WordPress admin password and email address from its database. The reason I’m writing this is I ran into a minor issue where I lost control of my admin account.. not due to hackers or someone who...
by Richard W | Mar 7, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
Hosting your WordPress blogs on your own server is better than on a shared server. New webmasters will opt for shared environments as they’re easy to setup and manage. The one big hurdle of running your own server is you become the server, network and security...