Cloudflare turned 13 this year. For Cloudflare Birthday week, they announced support for Post-Quantum key exchange connections (KEX) to Cloudflare origin servers using X25519Kyber768Draft00. For this to work, origin servers need to support Post-Quantum key exchanges. This post outlines how Centmin Mod LEMP stack’s Nginx server can be configured to support Post-Quantum KEX.
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HTTP Archive Core Web Vitals Technology Report
Senior Google engineer Rick Viscomi has released a new HTTP Archive Core Web Vitals Technology report dashboard for Google Datastudio New dashboard: the Core Web Vitals technology report. You can see how respective web technology based sites are doing collectively for Google Core Web Vital metrics.
How To Switch From Letsencrypt to ZeroSSL Free SSL Certificates On Centmin Mod
Centmin Mod uses Neil Pang’s acme.sh client as the underlying tool to issue and obtain free Letsencrypt certificates for Nginx HTTPS auto created sites. The acme.sh client has added support for other free ACME protocol compatible CA SSL providers like Buypass (BuyPass Go SSL) and ZeroSSL. This guide shows how you can switch over from Letsencrypt to using ZeroSSL SSL certificates which uses Sectigo (Comodo) certificates and supports free wildcard SSL certificates and doesn’t have any rate limiting for SSL certificate issuance.
Centmin Mod Managing Letsencrypt DST Root CA X3 Certificate Expiration On CentOS 7
On September 30, 2021, Letsencrypt’s DST Root CA X3 cross-sign (by IdentTrust) root certificate expired and was replaced with Letsencrypt’s own ISRG Root X1 CA root certificate. I’ll outline how Centmin Mod LEMP stack handled the Letsencrypt’s DST Root CA X3 certificate expiration for CentOS 7.x operating systems.
How To Setup Cloudflare Argo Tunnel On CentOS 7
Cloudflare Argo Tunnel allows you to expose your web server to the internet without having to open routes in your firewall or setup dedicated routes. This guide will outline how you can setup Cloudflare Argo Tunnel for private encrypted HTTP/2 connection to your origin web server or web application on CentOS 7 for Centmin Mod LEMP stack users.
New blog.centminmod.com
New blog.centminmod.com in development. Will be blogging about all Centmin Mod related news, product and feature developments right here.
WordPress Cache Enabler Advanced Full Page Caching Guide
This guide will show you step by step how to install WordPress with Cache Enabler plugin’s advanced full HTML page caching configuration which bypasses PHP completely allowing the WordPress full HTML page cached files to be served 100% at Nginx server cache level.
Centmin Mod vs Easyengine vs Webinoly vs VestaCP vs OneInStack LEMP Stack Benchmarks
Made use of ssdnode’s 4 CPU KVM VPS with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and LXD containers to create several LXD containers to compare several CentOS and Ubuntu LEMP stacks, Centmin Mod, EasyEngine, Webinoly, VestaCP and OneInStack. The bnchmark compare Nginx non-HTTPS and HTTP/2 HTTPS based performance.
How To Install WordPress On Centmin Mod LEMP Stack Guide
This blog post was migrated from ServerManage.guide. This WordPress site was created using Centmin Mod’s centmin.sh menu option 22 automatic WordPress installer routine and hosted on a Upcloud.com KVM VPS server running Centmin Mod Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB MySQL on CentOS 7 64bit server paired with Cloudflare free plan.
Centmin Mod Advanced Customised Installation Guide
The initial Centmin Mod install guide and the Getting Started guide outline the normal way of installing Centmin Mod LEMP stack on CentOS 7.x 64bit based server. However, there’s additional steps you can do to further customise your Centmin Mod LEMP default out of the box configuration and to enable additional optional features.