FOSSBilling is a fork of BoxBilling. It is a self-hosted billing web software with ticket support and knowledgebase mainly designed to be easy for clients and sellers of web hosting niches. However, anyone related to online business or freelancing can use this software. It is suitable for freelancers, small, medium or even large businesses. FOSSBilling comes with Apache 2.0 license, which means it … [Read more...]
Troubleshoot Not enabling PHP x.y FPM by default Notice on Ubuntu Server
If you are receiving the notice "Not enabling PHP x.y FPM by default" (with Apache webserver) after upgrading your Ubuntu server then you need to spend time behind the server and remain attentive during reboot. After I received this notice, I Google searched and read at least 50 web pages to understand where the error is arriving. The main information I got from Linode's community: … [Read more...]
How to Add a Brand Logo and Blue Tick to Emails with BIMI
In recent times, Google is talking about Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), which includes adding an MX Record, a SPF Record, a DMARC Record, and a BIMI Record. Adding an MX Record, an SPF Record and a DMARC Record is free and we have discussed the technical part on our website in the past - How to add DKIM, SPF Record, DMARC Record. Activate the records, if you have already … [Read more...]
How to Install Supabase on Ubuntu Server (with Docker)
In our earlier guide, we discussed installation of AppWrite on own server. If you are developing ESP32 Arduino, then probably Supabase will feel more like Firebase. Apart from Firebase, AppWrite, and Supabase, there are other options such as AceBase, Amplication, Conduit and so on. Supabase is one the most established BaaS provider among the three. In a sense, Supabase is nearly an equivalent … [Read more...]
How to Install Appwrite as a Backend Server
Appwrite does more than Google Firebase can do and Appwrite is open source. That means you can run Appwrite on your server without any usage restrictions. Appwrite is a self-hosted backend as a service packaged as a set of micro-services which can run inside a container. It helps to avoid writing backend code and provides you with a better starting point for your project and a better developer … [Read more...]
Dynamic WebP Image Delivery in WordPress with Bunny CDN
Loading the WordPress post images in WebP format is of great importance today since WebP format reduces the size and Google wants that we use WebP format. Even if the gain in terms of size reduction is not significant, it is probably a good idea to solve the "issues" pointed out as errors in PageSpeed Insights. Various whimsical rules and instructions imposed by Google do not stay with time. … [Read more...]
Advantages and Disadvantages of Ubuntu Server Distribution
There is a lot of difference between a Server OS and Desktop OS. Only a few Linux server distributions are commonly used for web hosting and app hosting which include Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, REHL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and openSUSE. Ubuntu is a Debian derivative server distribution but Ubuntu is more popular than Debian. Ubuntu is composed mostly of free and open-source software but has … [Read more...]
Easily Set Up Email with SMTP on Ubuntu Server
It is very easy to use msmtp package, configure a dedicated email account for the server and send email alerts from the server or the web application, such as WordPress. However, for making web applications such as WordPress work, you need to perform a few extra steps which we have not described in this article. To follow this guide, you need a dedicated email account for this purpose. If you … [Read more...]
How To Install Apache NiFi On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
This is an updated guide on installation of Apache NiFi. Version 1.21.0 is the latest. It was built by NSA to automate the flow of data between their systems. Nifi is a Java based project and executes within a JVM. The biggest advantage is that, it has a web based interface to create, monitor and control data flow. You'll get a good documentation on limits … [Read more...]
Nginx vs Apache – Which is the Best Webserver for WordPress?
If you are a single person handling few WordPress sites hosted on unmanaged servers, then Apache is the robust option for you. You can always use Nginx on a small cloud server to reverse proxy the Apache server (in the way we have described in this guide). The question is not whether Nginx or Apache is better than the other. The question is about use case, documentations, easy to add new features … [Read more...]
GeoDNS vs Anycast for Websites
Normally we set up our WordPress sites for the unicast system. Our servers bear one IP, and DNS also have one primary name server IP. The setup is simple and works great when the users or visitors are within 200 km of the datacenter. Hosting a website on a datacenter on Texus and accessing it from Kolkata adds a huge latency simply because the data have to travel so long path. Although it is … [Read more...]