This is a quick, simple yet effective tutorial on how to install Drupal 8 on FreeBSD. Drupal is a robust, complete well stablished CMS used on many important websites around the globe. Extensible with modules (some sort of plugins), customizable with themes it remains in third position behind Wordpress on mainstream content management systems. At this point I guess you’ve done … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2018
Live monitoring with Netdata
Netdata is a real time monitoring software that allows administrators, developers and architects have a visual representation of a system’s performance live. In short, porn for system’s tuners and other masochists but also a great tool to check system’s behaviour under load giving all members of a team to look at their part while the system is running. Since Netdata is a … [Read more...]
VMWare ESXi (One)
The VMWare ESXi is a hypervisor developed by the VMWare company and it is widely known and used in many environments and enterprises of all sorts. Nowadays it is the main component of a sort of a software suite. It is a type one hypervisor which means it runs directly on to the hardware controlling and managing it. This is also called bare metal hypervisors. Xen, Microsoft’s … [Read more...]
How to install WordPress on Debian 9 (LAMP stack)
In this guide we’ll see how to install a simple, clean, new Wordpress site. In order to run this site we’ll have to have a LAMP (or FAMP if you prefer FreeBSD over Linux) stack in place. Read the correspondent guides in order to get the necessary software layers all together, rightly configured. The first step to install Wordpress on Debian is creating a database into MariaDB … [Read more...]
The LAMP stack (Debian 9)
LAMP stack stands for a software stack composed by Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl). It is used for many purposes and its common ground for system administrators. Since there are several of Linux distributions there are some differences in the way the LAMP stack is installed. In this guide we are using the latest Debian version available, 9.3. Before we start installing … [Read more...]