LimeSurvey is a free and an open source online survey application written in PHP and uses a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install LimeSurvey on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) server.

This tutorial shows the steps to install an Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server with Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Postfix, pure-ftpd, BIND, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3.1. ISPConfig is a web hosting control panel that allows you to configure the installed services through a web browser. This setup provides a full hosting server with web, email (inc. spam and antivirus filter), Database, FTP and DNS services.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the latest Nextcloud 13.0.2 release on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. We will run Nextcloud with a Nginx web server and PHP7.1-FPM and use MySQL server as the database system. Nextcloud is a free (Open Source) Dropbox-like software, a fork of the ownCloud project.

Ever since AMD released their EPYC CPU for servers I wanted to test it, but I did not have the opportunity until recently, when Packet.net started offering bare metal servers for a reasonable price. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU. In this benchmark, I discovered some interesting discrepancies in performance between  AMD and Intel CPUs when running under systemd .

The set up

To test CPU performance, I used a read-only in-memory sysbench OLTP benchmark, as it burns CPU cycles and no IO is performed by Percona Server.

For this benchmark I used Packet.net c2.medium.x86 instances powered by AMD EPYC …

I received a lot of good feedback Building the PHP MySQL XDevAPI PECL Extension on MySQL 8.0.11 and PHP 7.2 for the MySQL Document Store including a few folks asking if I could document that it takes to get the MySQL X DevAPI working with an RPM based Linux distro.

Well I'd really like to.  But I can't.

Redhat Linux 4 I still remember getting my copy of Redhat Linux 4.0 (not RHEL -- no enterprise thoughts in those days)  It was January 1997 and I installed it the week before Rehaht 4.1 came out.  I thought that RPMs were much better than the old 'unzip the tar file;./configure; make install' circus. I thought Redhat was pretty cool. Heck I even became a RHCE.  
Then I found the Debian variants easier to work with and more up to date.  My not so …

Pimcore is a free and open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP language and uses MySQL/MariaDB for databases. It is fast, flexible, and designer and developer-friendly that allow us to manage and share all of our digital assets across any channel.

Ghost is a completely open source (MIT license) blogging platform, that is gaining popularity among developers and ordinary users. In this tutorial, we are going to set up and deploy a secure Ghost blog with the help of Ghost's Ghost-CLI tool on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server using Let's Encrypt, Acme.sh, Node.js, npm, Yarn, NGINX and MySQL/MariaDB.

Seafile is an open source file-hosting and cloud storage system similar to Dropbox, but you can install and run it on your own server. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install and configure a Seafile server with Nginx web server and the MySQL database.

Magento is a widely used Open Source e-commerce software and content management system for e-commerce websites based on the PHP Zend Framework. It uses MySQL or MariaDB as database backend. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Magento 2 with Nginx, PHP 7.1 FPM, and MySQL as the database. I will use ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) as server operating system.

CMS Made Simple is a free and open source content management system written in PHP and uses MySQL to store their data. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install CMS Made Simple on Ubuntu 18.04.