webserver Migrate to Magento 2.2.x & the VPS - Part II Since part I, we're having a empty Magento2 demo webshop (Luma) successfully running on the new VPS and that means it's time to start working on the real migration from Magento 1 to
webserver Simply upgrade NGINX 1.10 to 1.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 By default Ubuntu seems to play things safe and tries to stick with older, but stable versions of software pushed out via the Ubuntu repositories. In most cases this is perfectly fine, but
webserver Migrate to Magento 2.2 & the VPS - Part I Today I've finished the first migration of a Magento webshop from version 1.9 to 2.2. Together with this move we are also upgrading the Ubuntu VPS from 14.04 LTS to
development Hardening your VPS - part 2: The Uncomplicated Firewall After simplifying and hardening the login process to your VPS software, the next step is to start enable defensive software which can keep unwanted guests outside. This can be done with the a
development Hardening your VPS: Disable SSH plain text login. Secure Shell, or SSH[1], is a cryptographic (encrypted) network protocol operating at layer 7 of the OSI Model[1:1] to allow remote login and other network services to operate securely over
development Let's encrypt: Getting Grade A+ SSL security! -- Out of beta & updated guide. 3 months ago I wrote down an article about this topic. It was back then based on the invitation only beta program. Since then the team behind letsencrypt changed a couple of steps.
development Enabling HTTP/2 on Nginx Yesterday I posted a blog about how to encrypt your connection and being granted with an A+ label for the effort you did. For having a modern blog on reasonable webserver the last
development Let's encrypt: Getting Grade A+ SSL security! A couple days ago I received a very welcome e-mail from the Let's Encrypt Closed Beta Invite Program. If you do not know what it is, get yourself informed, because this will be
front-end Basic setup of a Ubuntu webserver with Nginx & Nodejs I'm going to walk you through a setup of a new, clean VPS[1] with Nginx v1.9.6 & Nodejs v4, based on Ubuntu Server LTS 14.04, with no default packages