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The first two letters of vsftpd stand for “very secure” and the program was built to have strongest protection against possible FTP vulnerabilities. Vsftpd supports virtual users with PAM (pluggable authentication modules). A virtual user is a user login which does not exist as a real login on the system …

So far I have written how to install LEMP server (nginx, mysql, php-fpm) on centos. If you are planning to use WordPress with your LEMP server (nginx, mysql, php-fpm) stack, I will show you How To Install WordPress with nginx on Centos in this article. Follow up previous article How to install …

OpenVPN is an open source software which let you tunnel any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP or TCP port. Similar to Microsoft’s VPN protocol, OpenVPN also supports L2TP/IPsec and SSTP (many VPN businesses still using old flawed PPTP protocol). OpenVPN comes with two versions Access …

I will show you how to install fail2ban on centos 6 and centos 7 to protect SSH brute force attacks. There are many ways to protect SSH server, the best way is to use ssh-keys authentication rather than regular password authentication. I have also written a long detailed article How to install, config …

Nginx is one of the most popular web server widely used by many popular websites like facebook, intel, cloudflare, hulu, netflix, dropbox, and more. Unlike Apache web server, nginx is a very light weight web server and proxy server yet comes with the same or even better features. Nginx does …

CentOS 7 was released few months ago which I was very excited, but I have been waiting for a while for bugs fixing. Usually when any Linux distro is released, they usually comes with unknow bugs which may break your system. CentOS is always my favorite linux distro since it’s …

LEMP stacks are an open source platform for applications that is compatible with the LAMP (refers to a Linux-based operating system, the Apache web server, the MySQL database server, and the PHP programming language). LEMP replaces Apache with Nginx which is  light-weight and its ability to scale easily on minimal …

I have shown you How to install LEMP server with Linux, Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL on Centos with standard packages from Centos repository, which comes with older version of PHP 5.3.x and MySQL 5.1.x. Since there are many new great features from PHP 5.5.x and MySQL 5.5.x which I mentioned in How to …

I have shown you how to setup a LAMP server Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP on Centos 6 before with default CentOS Provided Repositories CentOS-Base.repo. Hate it or love it, Apache web server has 55% market share which nginx or IIS (Microsoft) can’t beat it yet. By default Centos 6.5 will install: Apache …

Similar to the LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, LEMP Server (Linux, Nginx or engine-x, MySQL, PHP-FPM or PHP-FastCGI) is an alternative stack of open source software for web server. Unlike Apache, Nginx can increase web server scalability by optimize the web server hardware resources (cpu, memory…) which lead to a …