How to Install Dolphin on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS

In this guide, we will show you how to install Boonex Dolphin 7 on an Ubuntu Cloud VPS.

Boonex Dolphin is a popular social networking platform and web application designed for you to create easy-to-use community and social media oriented websites. With dolphin, you can create small-scale social networks, a community page, or a social club for any topic you wish. Additionally, thanks to its user friendly interface and excellent customizability all through the web interface, you won’t need to know how to program or design websites to get up and running with Dolphin. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install Redmine on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Redmine, along with its prerequisites such as MySQL, Ruby, and Nginx, on an Ubuntu 18.04 Cloud VPS.

Redmine is an open source project management web app and issue tracking tool based on Ruby on Rails framework that allows users to manage projects flexibly while offering robust monitoring tools and a broad library of plug-ins. This free and open-source solution offers an alternative to management tools. We can track multiple projects in one installation, it has an integrated support for news, document management, file management, a support wiki, forum, calendars, and so on making it a very versatile platform. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install Django on Debian 9

In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you how to install Django on your Debian Cloud VPS.

There is a very good reason why Django is the top Python web development framework. It is powerful, flexible, and at the same time, it does not get in the developers’ way. It scales very well too, powering sites such as Instagram.

It is quite simple to install a Django development environment on Linux, and Debian makes it that much more simple. You can go with two different methods of installation: the virtualenv way, and the Debian way. The virtualenv way keeps all Python packages, including Django, installed with it contained, and that allows multiple installations with different packages and their versions. For installation and management of Django the Debian way uses  apt, which can be considered as the more user-friendly method. In this tutorial, however, we’ll be covering both methods. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install DokuWiki on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install DokuWiki on an Ubuntu 18.04 Cloud VPS with Apache and PHP.

DokuWiki is a free and open source lightweight wiki software platform. What makes it different from other similar wiki applications is that DokuWiki works without the need for a database. Instead, it stores its data in PHP data-files, which makes it pretty fast and simpler to set up. The installation is pretty easy and it should take no longer than 10 minutes, so let’s get started.

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How to Install OpenVPN on Debian 9

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenVPN on a Debian VPS.

A VPN (short for Virtual Private Network) allows you to connect securely to the internet, a public network (such as free wifi at the airport), or any other public area. VPN also allows users to share data remotely through public networks. VPN is also often required in order to be able to access your corporate or office or home server resources. You can bypass filters and unblock location-restricted websites with a VPN.

Through a VPN, you can browse the internet anonymously – it allows you to access websites and web application in complete anonymity. This helps keep you protected while browsing online, which is becoming more and more important in today’s age of tracking and analytics. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Set Up Redis on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we are going to build and install Redis on our CentOS 7 Cloud VPS from source.

Redis is an in-memory data structure store primarily used as a database and cache. Redis supports different kinds of abstract data structures such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, hyper logs, bitmaps, and spatial indexes. The Redis package that is included in the default CentOS repositories is pretty outdated, so installing from the source code will ensure that we have the latest version of Redis installed on our system. Let’s begin with the installation.

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How to Install MariaDB on Debian 9

In this article, we will show you how to install MariaDB on a Debian 9 Cloud VPS.

MariaDB is a free and open-source, backwards-compatible, enhanced and drop-in replacement of the popular MySQL database management server software. It is very fast, stable, and scalable, making this database server ideal for almost everyone, which is why it’s one of the most used database servers in the world. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install Dolphin on Ubuntu 18.04

In this guide, we will show you how to install Boonex Dolphin 7 on an Ubuntu Cloud VPS.

Boonex Dolphin is a popular social networking platform and web application that allows you to create easy-to-use community and social media oriented websites. It’s open-source, and thanks to its design and customization-oriented nature, you can make your site unique to suit your ideas. Let’s get started with the installation.

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How to Install Yarn on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Yarn on an Ubuntu 16.04 Cloud VPS, as well as go over some of the basics with using Yarn.

Yarn is a Javascript package manager, serving as an alternative to NPM. It is an open-source project and was built by a team at Facebook. There are many advantages when using Yarn, such as:

  • Offline Installation
  • Faster download, packages are installed in parallel
  • Support for multiple registries

As you can see, the interesting feature is the offline installation. Once you have installed a package, it will be cached and we can create another project from scratch without being connected to the internet, which in turn will save our bandwidth usage.
Usually, a project requires some dependencies and every time we install them to start a project, the “npm install” command would consume your bandwidth. When using Yarn, the download is done just once. Let’s begin installing Yarn.

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How to Install SQLite on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing SQLite on an Ubuntu 16.04 Cloud VPS, which is fast, easy, and can be done in less than 5 minutes.

SQLite is a software library that provides a relational database management system (RDBMS). It can work as a database engine for small sized websites as well as large websites and projects, and it comes with a lot of useful features. The maximum size of a SQLite database is about 140 terabytes, making it future proof as well. Used by millions of users around the world, including some of the well-known companies such as Google, Facebook, Adobe, Microsoft and others, it is the most widely deployed database engine. Let’s begin with the installation.

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