We would like to thank you for being on the journey with us this past year. We wish you the best of luck, prosperity, and health this new year and we look forward to serving you,
We’d like to use this opportunity to share/showcase some of the key goals we’ve achieved this past year!
New Products,
We added a new AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Powered product at the start of this year past year under the SSD KVM product line-up,
These new AMD Ryzen 9 5950X powered products are available at,
Los Angeles, USA
Atlanta, USA (Ryzen 9 3950X available currently, Ryzen 9 5950X to be made available shortly)
Frankfurt, DE
Checkout our blog post for more information on this,click here
cPanel and DirectAdmin upgraded to SSD
All of our cPanel and DirectAdmin powered services were upgraded over to SSD-based storage, plus with a much newer CPU, better RAID controller, and faster memory.
This upgrade has been key in ensuring better stability and consistent performance, and the shift to SSDs has given us a major boost in disk performance which has ensured that every website, from the smallest to the largest we host has seen a major improvement in loading times.
Checkout our blog post for more information on this, click here
UI Improvements on CrownPanel
We’ve constantly worked on improving the functions available in our control panel, and this past year our primary focus was on the usability, UI, and improving things on the inside of the control panel, to improve performance and reduce the loading time as well,
Some of the key (user-visible) improvements we’ve made this year are,
Apart from the above, We’ve improved the performance of the dashboard, users with multiple VPSes now see much much better loading times.
New Templates
As always we try to ensure that there’s good availability of operating system templates for all our customers, this past year we’ve updated various templates as well as made available the following new templates,
Alma Linux 8 (KVM and OpenVZ)
CentOS 8 Stream (KVM and OpenVZ)
Debian 11 (KVM and OpenVZ)
RockyLinux 8 (KVM only)
Ubuntu 21.04 (KVM only)
Ubuntu 21.10 (KVM only)
IncrediblePBX (one-click PBX solution)
We would like to thank Ward Mundy from IncrediblePBX for creating a simple way to provision Incredible PBX on our platform. You can install an instance with below versions and get started with PBX.
Another key goal we achieved this year was improving the performance of our LA1 datacenter network, while in the past we did have a good amount of spare network capacity, the network design/devices-in-use did not allow us to scale better in the future, so a network upgrade was performed wherein we upgraded all the network devices in use to better devices which allowed us to scale better and allow for better networking at our LA1 datacenter.
ATL Router Upgrade
One of the last upgrades we performed for this year was the upgrade of our core router at Atlanta, the previous router had certain restrictions on it due to the memory available on it which caused issues in certain
The CentOS 8 project has been transformed into CentOS Stream, CentOS stream sits between Fedora and RHEL. Compared to earlier where CentOS releases would come after RHEL releases making CentOS tried and tested and super stable.
While in our testing CentOS Stream has been stable enough and there are advantages as well such as newer packages may make their way into CentOS quicker now compared to past releases, the long-term stability remains unknown due to the way the CentOS Stream releases are now placed before RHEL.
AlmaLinux 8
AlmaLinux was initially developed by CloudLinux and now further developed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, it is an open-source operating system that is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL and is supported by the community.
Since AlmaLinux is open-source it is completely free without any usage restrictions. It was developed to handle enterprise-grade workloads, and hence comes recommended for server environments and for handling critical workloads.
We’ve created a 1-click install template for AlmaLinux, available for both OpenVZ and KVM-based VPSes. Click hereto check the blog post for more information.
If you are already running CentOS 8, you can easily convert by using this instruction to AlmaLinux 8
Rocky Linux 8
Rocky Linux is another community-powered enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL.
Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project and this project’s aim is to provide a community-supported, production-grade enterprise operating system.
We’ve created a Template for Rocky Linux which will help you install it One-Click Click hereto check the blog post for more information
If you are already running CentOS 8, you can easily convert by using this instruction toRocky Linux 8
Since Centos has been used for quite a while in server environments especially by small businesses we’ve created simple guides to help to use AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux
In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Flarum on Ubuntu 20.04
Flarum is a free, open-source, and next-generation forum application that helps you to build your online discussion forum. Flarum looks and feels great out of the box. The user interface is streamlined so you can spend less time clicking and more time talking.
All settings correct for using Composer
Downloading...
Composer (version 1.10.10) successfully installed to: /root/composer.phar
Use it: php composer.phar
Move Composer binary file to the /usr/local/bin/ directory with the following command,
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Verify Composer version using below command,
composer -V
Output:
Composer version 1.10.10 2020-08-03 11:35:19
Install Flarum
Need to create directory for Flarum inside Apache web directory,
mkdir /var/www/html/flarum
Download the latest version of Flarum using Composer,
Create Apache virtual host configuration file for host Flarum,
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/flarum.conf
Replace (customer-domain.here) with (actual domain name).
Add the following lines,
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin customer-domain.here
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/flarum/public
ServerName customer-domain.here
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /var/www/html/flarum/public/>
Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Enable the Flarum virtual host and Apache rewrite module using the below command,
a2ensite flarum
a2enmod rewrite
Restart Apache serving to apply the changes,
systemctl restart apache2
systemctl status apache2
Output:
? apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-08-23 09:57:11 UTC; 2min 44s ago
Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
Main PID: 27164 (apache2)
Tasks: 6 (limit: 2353)
Memory: 12.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
??27164 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
??27165 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
??27166 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
??27167 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
??27168 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
??27169 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
Secure Flarum with Let’s Encrypt SSL
First, install the Certbot Let’s Encrypt client using the below command,
apt-get install python3-certbot-apache -y
Run the below command to install Let’s Encrypt SSL for Flarum Site,
certbot --apache -d customer-domain.here
You will be asked to provide your email address and accept the terms,
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Enter email address (used for urgent renewal and security notices) (Enter 'c' to
cancel): Your_Email_Address
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Please read the Terms of Service at
https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-2017.pdf. You must
agree in order to register with the ACME server at
https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
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(A)gree/(C)ancel: A
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Would you be willing to share your email address with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a founding partner of the Let's Encrypt project and the non-profit
organization that develops Certbot? We'd like to send you email about our work
encrypting the web, EFF news, campaigns, and ways to support digital freedom.
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(Y)es/(N)o: Y
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for customer-domain.here
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Created an SSL vhost at /etc/apache2/sites-available/flarum-le-ssl.conf
Enabled Apache socache_shmcb module
Enabled Apache ssl module
Deploying Certificate to VirtualHost /etc/apache2/sites-available/flarum-le-ssl.conf
Enabling available site: /etc/apache2/sites-available/flarum-le-ssl.conf
Choose whether or not to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS.
Please choose whether or not to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, removing HTTP access.
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1: No redirect - Make no further changes to the webserver configuration.
2: Redirect - Make all requests redirect to secure HTTPS access. Choose this for
new sites, or if you're confident your site works on HTTPS. You can undo this
change by editing your web server's configuration.
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Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press 'c' to cancel): 2
Output:
Redirecting vhost in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/flarum.conf to ssl vhost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/flarum-le-ssl.conf
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Congratulations! You have successfully enabled https://customer-domain.here
You should test your configuration at:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=customer-domain.here
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/customer-domain.here/fullchain.pem
Your key file has been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/customer-domain.here/privkey.pem
Your cert will expire on 2020-11-21. To obtain a new or tweaked
version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot again
with the "certonly" option. To non-interactively renew *all* of
your certificates, run "certbot renew"
- Your account credentials have been saved in your Certbot
configuration directory at /etc/letsencrypt. You should make a
secure backup of this folder now. This configuration directory will
also contain certificates and private keys obtained by Certbot so
making regular backups of this folder is ideal.
- If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by:
Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate
Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le
- We were unable to subscribe you the EFF mailing list because your
e-mail address appears to be invalid. You can try again later by
visiting https://act.eff.org.
Navigate your browser:
Replace customer-domain.here with actual_domain_name.
Hello, In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Kernel 5.x on AlmaLinux 8
Kernel is central component of an operating system that manages operations of computer and hardware. It basically manages operations of memory and CPU time. It is core component of an operating system. Kernel acts as a bridge between applications and data processing performed at hardware level using inter-process communication and system calls.
Prerequisites
Access to AlmaLinux command line terminal.
Root privileges or Sudo privileges.
Enable ELRepo repository
Run the following commands to enable ELRepo repository.
Run the following command to display the list of packages.
dnf repolist
Output:
[root@vps ~]# dnf repolist
repo id repo name
appstream AlmaLinux 8 - AppStream
baseos AlmaLinux 8 - BaseOS
elrepo ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el8
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
epel-modular Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
extras AlmaLinux 8 - Extras
