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Your website is the face you present the virtual world. Your company relies on customers that find you online…. And now it is broken. Broken images, pages not displaying properly or even worse … just an empty page! Contact us using the chat system or the contact us form and we will get to work […]
Somehow you typed the wrong password last time you changed it and now you have no idea what it was. Or you have not used this computer for 2 years and now you remembered that you have that important file on it…. But you can’t remember your password. Just contact us either through chat or […]
Your computer is giving you all the troubles in the world and you need it NOW? Geek Squad placed you on hold to give you only …. “No help at all”? We are here and we are online now! We will connect to your computer using ConnectWise in … 3…2…1…connected! When you’ve got tech issues […]
Either you change host, or if you are hosting at home you want a faster server, there are many reasons why you would need to move your WordPress site. Here we will learn how to do this. The Situation When I have build my site (www.paulgeanta.com) I decided to host it at home. If you […]
All previous how-to-s are the preamble to the current post. In fact, what we desire is to host our website at home, and be in complete control on what and how we install on our server. At this point you should have an Ubuntu server on which Apache, MySQL, PHP and WordPress have been installed. […]
If you completed Apache, MySQL and PHP installation you have all the blocks needed to install WordPress and start building quality websites with as much effort as typing a word document. WordPress installation on Ubuntu can be done using apt-get just as we have installed Apache, MySQL and PHP. However, this is not the preferred […]
Installing PHP on Ubuntu is not a complicated task. If you read the previous how-to, you will see that the php installation process is very similar to installing Apache or MySQL . Let’s get to work: First login your Server, start Terminal and become root user using “sudo su”. Next type the following commands (we […]
Another important step towards a web hosting system is a backend database. On Linux many databases systems are available, but the one most webhosts use is MySQL. Besides MySQL, Postgres and MariaDB also deserve mentioning. The installation is not more complicated than Apache server installation (did you read the Install Apache how-to?) Start a terminal […]
Installation Installing Apache correctly is a very important part in your quest to Host your website at home. Luckily, on Ubuntu this is an easy task. I hope you went through the Install Linux how-to and you had the time to play around a little. But enough playing and let’s get to work! First, let […]
You heard about it, you are using it every day if you have a smart phone, but you never dared to get deeper into it and get your hands dirty. Let me introduce you to Linux. I will not go into the history and details, nor will I explain here what the difference between Linux […]