Category: Dedicated Server

The current stable version of CentOS Linux OS is 6.5 If you want to upgrade your VPS / dedicated server to CentOS 6.5 from 6.4/6.3, follow below steps.

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install Nginx on a CentOS server / VPS. This is very easy and will not take more than 5 minutes. Before starting installation of Nginx, make sure you have installed PHP and MySQL How to install PHP How to install MySQL Login to your server via SSH […]

I was recently installing and configuring a new server. After installing CentOS I installed Apache. But server IP was not opening default Apache page. I was getting ping reply from my computer to server IP. So, I quickly figured out that Port 80 and Port 224 on server are blocked for incoming web traffic. we […]

If you want to see CPU details of your Linux server / VPS, here is how you can check. Login to your server as root and via SSH, and run following command: cat /proc/cpuinfo This will show you your server CPU details like Total processors, CPU model number, speed, cache. [vps_hosting]

If you want to check how much disk space your server has, how much disk has been used and how much free disk space is left on your Linux server, here is simple command for that. Login to your server as root via SSH and run following command. df -h This will show size, Used, […]

If you want to see the list of users who are logged in server and their IP and what they are doing, here is how you can do. Login to your server as root and run following command. w OR who Above command will list all logged in users, their IP, what they are doing. […]

If for some reason you do not want to update your server kernel but want to update other packages running on CentOS, here is how you can do. Update can be done using yum command and to exclude kernel from update we need to add exclude command. Login to your server as root via SSH […]

If you want to copy a file / folder from one server to another, you can use wget or scp command. In this tutorial I will show how to use scp command to copy files / folder from one server to another. Let us suppose Server One IP is: 1.1.1.1 Server Two IP is: 2.2.2.2 […]

We can test server disk read / write speed from SSH. Below command will show the speed that the server can read and write a 1GB file. Login to your server via SSH and run below command: dd if=/dev/zero of=sb-io-test bs=1M count=1k conv=fdatasync Higher scores is better. SSD disk will give you very fast read […]

Apache is the most popular HTTP server. Hers is how you can install Apache server on a CentOS / RedHat server. Login to your server as root via SSH and run below command: yum install httpd Now start Apache service httpd start Done!! [vps_hosting]