New member checking in

welcome @Derek to Centmin Mod Community and Centmin Mod. Yeah Centmin Mod has it's own work flow and way of doing things. Best is to setup a test VPS and test site first and learn the ropes - that way no fear or messing it up. Using DigitalOcean for testing probably easiest way as their snapshot system is best so you can setup fresh Centmin Mod LEMP install, take snapshot backup. Then mess around and if you stuff up, just restore that snapshot back or you can use the time to practice reloading fresh CentOS and doing a fresh Centmin Mod install

You might want to try the 123.09beta01 build as it will be next stable release and well has alot of improvements if you check 2nd post change log at Beta Branch - Centmin Mod .09 beta branch Testing

Threads you might want to participate in

• What are you using Centmin Mod for ?
• How did you find out about Centmin Mod ?
• What PHP Version do you use ?
• How much memory installed on server running Centmin Mod ?
• Fill out Centmin Mod 2016 Survey

Threads & Info To Bookmark

Threads to read, pages to bookmark and threads to watch/subscribe to get to know Centmin Mod would include:

• Getting Started Guide, FAQ and What's New and centmin.sh guide.
• How to Install Centmin Mod 1.2.3-eva2000.08 Stable - you'd want to bookmark or subscribe to this thread for updates to the code, bug fixes, security updates etc.
• How to upgrade Centmin Mod 1.2.3-eva2000.08+ stable
• How to troubleshoot initial installs (as well as find the log files for all software for troubleshooting).
• Centmin Mod Configuration Files Overview
• Centmin Mod + Youtube Resources - recently created to illustrate visually what Centmin Mod can do. Alot of the vidoes are to showcase Centmin Mod .08 betas features which eventually will become the next stable release.
• All things SSL https related at SSL - HTTPS as a Google ranking signal
• Centmin Mod Insights forum - delve deeper into Centmin Mod code if you want to tweak it or extend it yourself. Find out how PHP Opcode cachers like APC Cache, Zend Opcache and Xcache are configured and installed and how Memcached server is setup etc.
• Several ways to follow Centmin Mod code development and changes/commits via Github Commit forum or directly on Centmin Mod Github repository - 123.08stable branche
• For forums, also check threads in dedicated Forum Software Usage forums. Some Xenforo users including myself have posted out Nginx vhost configs at Xenforo - My Xenforo Nginx vhost configuration
• For Nginx Pagespeed check out the official site page for Centmin Mod's integration of ngx_pagespeed module. Also check out the prefix linked forum url Nginx, PHP-FPM & MariaDB MySQL | Centmin Mod Community easy way to jump into all threads and info related to ngx_pagespeed. In particular bookmark the Nginx PageSpeed Troubleshooting sticky thread as there is high chance you need to tweak your Nginx pagespeed.conf config file for your web apps and styles used. You can see an example of this forum's pagespeed.conf tweaked for Xenforo and my particular used Xenforo style/theme and some discussion of troubleshooting advertising and ngx_pagespeed.
• Nginx example configuration listing at centminmod.com/nginx_configure.html

Premium Membership

• Centmin Mod Premium Membership Benefits - including access to custom tailored dbbackup.sh mysql database backup script and updates/improvements.