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Installing & Configuring PhalconPHP

Download article as PDF Phalcon PHP is a very impressive PHP MVC Framework that I’ve started to play around with. What differentiates it from the rest of the pack is the fact that it runs in memory on your server

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Configuring PHP5-FPM Pools with Suhosin / Custom php.ini Settings

Download article as PDF If you have followed my server setup guide you should already have php5-fpm installed using some pretty basic settings. Pools are very powerful and you can do a lot more with them if you choose. You

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Automatic MySQL Backups

Download article as PDF This feature goes perfectly with my previous article on Google Drive Syncing. If you pair it with these automatic backups you can have your mysql backups automatically sync to your google drive account. I recommend checking

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Google Drive syncing on Ubuntu

Download article as PDF Google Drive is a perfect choice for performing web server backups. There’s no official linux client as far as I can make out but fortunately for us there is an open source implementation called “Grive” that

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Setting up SSL with Nginx & StartSSL (FREE!)

Download article as PDF In the past I’ve used PositiveSSL to enable SSL on my domains, you can find my old article at my other blog if you for some reason still want to use PositiveSSL. I purchased my PositiveSSL

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Installing Nginx and PHP5-FPM

Download article as PDF This article is a continuation of a previous article that outlined basic server setup of a Linode VPS running Ubuntu 14.04. If you missed it, please read the previous article. This article assumes you have a

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Setting up your linode

Download article as PDF If you are not familiar with Linode, they are a provider of VPS (Virtual Private Servers) which is basically a semi-private version of shared hosting. You generally don’t have to share the box with hundreds of

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