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.
Fast Tar And Rsync Transfer Speed For Linux Backups Using Zstd Compression
Newer Tar 1.32+ and Rsync 3.2.3 versions have added Facebook’s zstd compression algorithm and Rsync has added lz4 and xxHash checksum algorithms which give Tar and Rsync a tremendous boost in transfer speed. I’ve switched most of my own personal backup scripts to using these newer Tar 1.32+ and Rsync 3.2.3 versions now.
CentOS 7 Python 2.7 Upgrade Deprecation Message – End Of Life January 1st, 2020
For CentOS 7 based Centmin Mod users, you may run into the Python 2.7 deprecation message when running CentOS 7 native Python 2.7 and that Python 2.7’s end of life is on January 1, 2020 and that you need to upgrade Python 2.7. You should not upgrade the CentOS 7 native Python 2.7 as that may break your system and YUM operation. Instead, you should install a newer Python version side by side.
GTMetrix Switched To Google Lighthouse v6 For Page Speed Testing
The new version of GTMetrix page speed tool has now switched to using Google Lighthouse v6 engine which includes new Google Core Web Vital metrics for Largest Contentful Paint, Total Blocking Time, Cumulative Layout Shift as well as Time To First Byte and Time to Interactive. Check out their blog post explaining the changes at …
Ran IPTables Flush? How To Regain SSH Access After Being Locked Out Of CSF Firewall Servers
You’ve accidentally run the SSH command iptables -F
and have locked yourself out of your server and can not SSH login again. So how do you regain SSH access? Centmin Mod LEMP stack uses CSF Firewall which is a wrapper interface to CentOS system’s underlying IPTables. If you run the SSH command, iptables -F
you may end up locking yourself out of the server as this command flushes all the existing IPTable rules that are configured and setup by CSF Firewall at startup. This guide will outline ways you can possibly regain SSH access using example VPS providers – Upcloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Hetzner and Amazon AWS EC2 instance servers.
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.