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Nam Huy Linux is using Nginx because Nginx is a great lightweight and high performace web server/reverse proxy server. Nginx is the second most popular webserver just after Apache web server, there are many popular sites using Nginx like Wikipedia, Sina, Weibo, Yahoo, Reddit, Tumblr, Worpress… Nginx can easily handle thousands …

Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server developed by a community of developers and users, supported by non-profit corporation Apache Software Foundation. Apache web server is often placed at the edge of the server to serve httpd traffic hence it’s the most vulnerable service to an attack. Even …

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 …

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 …

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (P can be replaced with Perl Or Python). I’m going to show you how to install a standard full-featured LAMP server on Debian 7 Wheezy system. Apache is the most popular web server in the world which more than 50% of web …

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 …

Varnish is a great web application accelerator. Both varnish and nginx can be configured as a httpd cached proxy, but varnish is more advanced in caching (varnish can cache whole page both static and dynamic page), and nginx works better as a web server. Previously I wrote an tutorial How to …

Even thought most people will think Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution, but did you know Ubuntu is based on Debian! Interesting fact isn’t it. Well I’m going to show you How to install VNC Server on Debian 7 wheezy today. If you are not using Debian but Ubuntu, …