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Just launched 6x 2GB Vultr KVM VPSes in 6 different location to run my centminmodbench.sh comparison benchmarks like I did here. Since I am developing my own custom GeoDNS based SPDY SSL CDN using Centmin Mod web stack as the core, I thought I'd see how these specific Vultr locations would do ...

Benchmark compare DigitalOcean vs Linode vs Vultr VPS servers using centminmodbench.sh...

Dedicated thread to my first time adventures using SoYouStart E3-SSD-3 server in their BHS, Canada datacenter. ID validation & Order Process... It took ~15hrs for ID validation to process my submitted IDs and then took ~4hrs for them to setup the server for me. So all up ~19hrs from time of order to getting the email that my E3-SSD-3 server was ready. No horror stories of extended delays...

Chromium Blog post reports that Chrome 39+ browsers will be downgrading SHA-1 SSL signatures' reported trustworthiness via the security indicator over several Chrome browser versions including 39, 40 and 41. Read more about how to check if you have SHA-1 or SHA-2 signature hash algorithms for your SSL Certificates.

This Vultr KVM VPS install guide shows how to use Vultr's ISO mount and install feature to install Oracle Linux 6.5. If you like this guide please consider using my referral link to sign up for Vultr KVM VPS hosting. Centmin Mod LEMP web stack was made for CentOS Linux servers. However, I have been working on Oracle Linux 6.x compatibility for Centmin Mod...

DigitalOcean now has a CentOS 7.0 OS template for their KVM VPS droplet servers so decided to test out my latest Centmin Mod .08 beta which is being tested specifically for CentOS 7.0 operating system compatibility...

Recent release of OpenSSL 1.0.1i to fix security bugs http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt & OpenSSL Update, No Major Security Threats - DigiCert Blog. How to update OpenSSL for 1.0.1i fixes?...

By now the news has spread that Google is how factoring in https / SSL as signal in their search ranking algorithm. It will initially only affect less than 1% of global queries so there is still time to get your SSL certificates and get your domains sorted for conversion from http:// to https://. Centmin Mod Nginx users can setup https with an SSL certificate outlined...

Working on an improved Centmin Mod Nginx Add Vhost function which can generate both http and https (SPDY SSL) Nginx vhosts. RSA 2048 bit vs ECC 256 bit The new function can also auto generate the SSL CSR Code based on either the standard RSA 2048 bit keys or on the newer more performant ECC 256 bit keys (equivalent to RSA 3072 bit) as well as auto generate self-signed SSL certificates for test usage as well. ECC = Elliptic Curve Cryptography ECC key based has smaller key sizes, more secure and can offer between 10-20x times faster signing performance...

GoAccess is an open source real time web log analyzer that parses the specified web log file and outputs the data to the X terminal or cam generate html based reports...

Centmin Mod already has an official Addon for AVG Anti-Virus for Linux to manually scan for viruses and malware on Linux servers at http://centminmod.com/addons.html#avg and it's very fast for scanning but doesn't detect all malware out there. Linux Malware Detect (maldet) on the other hand is much slower up to 50x times slower than AVG for scanning but can pickup more malware variants out there...

Folks maybe wondering how they can also test CentOS 7.0 64bit with Centmin Mod 1.2.3-eva2000.08 beta 01 (from centos 7 beta 01 branch). Below are the 2 ways you can help test using the Centmin Mod .08 beta 01 Github branch...

My first time installing CentOS 7.0 so decided to install it on a local VirtualBox Guest server using the CentOS 7.0 x86_64 64bit ISO dvd. Will use this for my base test server for Centmin Mod testing just as I did with CentOS 5.x and 6.x Screenshots below.

Centmin Mod 1.2.3-eva2000.07 stable build is officially released on the official web site at http://centminmod.com/download.html. There's basically now 3 methods to install Centmin Mod starting with 1.2.3-eva2000.07+ and higher versions...

Folks may have heard of ngxtop for real time metrics for Nginx https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop ? ngxtop parses your nginx access log and outputs useful, top-like, metrics of your nginx server. So you can tell what is happening with your server in real-time...

Forums have enabeld the Resource Manager https://community.centminmod.com/resources/ which I plan to use to popular with Centmin Mod Nginx related web app configuration guides including Wordpress, vBulletin, IP.Board, Xenforo and ownCloud etc. It has it's own accompanying Resource discussion forum at https://community.centminmod.com/forums/resource-discussions.16/. Also have moved the Showcases and Testimonial forums https://community.centminmod.com/forums/show-cases-centmin-testimonials.6/ from under Introductions forum...

Official Centmin Mod Getting Started Guide is listed at http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html. These are the steps straight after you have installed Centmin Mod http://centminmod.com/download.html.

So anyone actually use centmin.sh menu option 17 to install and use the included multi-threaded compression tools (pigz, pbzip2, lbzip2, plzip, p7zip) ? Heaps of benefits particularly for using pigz as opposed to gzip http://vbtechsupport.com/2094/

So what do other folks use for SFTP/FTP client and SSH client apps ? For me, I use Vandyke's SecureCRT for SSH and SecureFX for SFTP/FTP. Please share what you use...

Forums have enabled Twitter and Google login support. After you sign up for your forum member account, you can go to External Accounts page https://community.centminmod.com/account/external-accounts to associate your Twitter and Google accounts to your forum member account. This will allow you to log in using your Twitter or Google accounts if you want...