Web Hosting Management

Improve website security with HTTP Security Headers – OpenLiteSpeed Tutorial

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What are Security Headers? These are a set of commands or directives configured for your website or web server. These directives tell the browsers what is allowed and what isn’t allowed for your website in terms of security and code execution. This helps protect the client browsers and also your website, from attacks and malicious …

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How to setup and secure PHPMyAdmin on OpenLiteSpeed Server

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I will walk you through installing and setting up PhpMyAdmin tool on the OpenLiteSpeed server. This is a must have tool that will help you in managing databases that run your website. In addition to setting it up, I will also walk you through securing the phpMyAdmin so that it isn’t accessible to the open …

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Tutorial: Run a FAST webhosting server with OpenLiteSpeed on Amazon Lightsail

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This video tutorial, will look at setting up a Web hosting server using OpenLiteSpeed. This is an alternative to Apache or NGINX web servers, that can run WordPress websites as well as other websites and web applications. It is supposed to help with performance with its built-in caching mechanism called LiteSpeed cache or LSCache and …

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How To Replace SSH Keys for Amazon Lightsail Server Instance

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This tutorial walks through replacing the SSH Key pair for an existing AWS Lightsail server instance. This can be helpful when you have shared your private key with others and no longer want them to have access to your server instance. We will look at how to setup Custom key pairs in Lightsail dashboard, and …

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How To Add Swap Space on AWS Lightsail Server Instance

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In this video tutorial I will walk through the steps to add swap file to your server instance. What is a swap file? A swap file is a mechanism to increases your servers available memory and can safe-guard your application from crashing. For example If you have an AWS Lightsail instance with 1GB memory and …

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How To Enable .htaccess for Apache on AWS Lightsail WordPress

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This will be a very quick tutorial in which I will show you how to enable Apache to read the .htaccess file. WordPress websites and plugins rely on the .htaccess file and Bitnami by default disables Apache from parsing the .htaccess file. Instead they provide a different method of adding parameters however may WordPress plugins …

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Setup Varnish for Bitnami WordPress on AWS Lightsail

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In this webhosting video tutorial I will walk through setting up Varnish Caching service on a Bitnami based WordPress website within the AWS Lightsail platform. Varnish is an http accelerator or caching service that acts like reverse proxy so it sits in front of Apache/PHP and its’ primary purpose is to take static access like …

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How To Configure Lightsail CDN for multiple websites on single instance

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In the video below we’ll take a look at configuring the Lightsail CDN for multiple websites. For those that are not aware CDN  stands for (Content Delivery Network) and can be used to cache static files assets and hopefully speed up your websites. Some of you in the past have asked if the Lightsail CDN …

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