Month: June 2013

Disable unwanted services – Linux Server

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One of the first steps that we should do while presetting a server is to disable unwanted services on the server. The server should be preloaded with some services like bluetooth, X services, etc which are not required to a server normally. The number of such services will vary, based on the default packages installed by your provider. After a little research, we have compiled in a list of services that can be disabled on  Linux servers. Please note that this is a generic one and you should check the list before implementing it, if you are going to build any custom stuff. Normally it should work seamlessly with control panel installations, web services , etc.

The list of services that can be disbaled are listed below seprately for VPS and dedicated servers.

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WordPress – Some quick notes!

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What is WordPress?

WordPress is a well known PHP based CMS with MySQL back-end, mostly used to build blogs. In addition to develop blogs, WordPress is commonly used to develop websites as well. Even though the WordPress is build as a blog software, it is very flexible and we can develop beautiful websites with it. There are millions of WordPress powered websites run in Internet now. It built in plug-in architecture and a template system.

Features

1. Customization :- As WordPress is built and operates based on a template system, it provides lots of opening to customize your web pages.

2. Dashboard :- The dashboard of WordPress is quiet nice and very user friendly. Among the other CMSes available in the market, it is very simple but powerful and can be managed even by a newbie easily.

3. Themes :- We can easily switch WordPress themes. There are thousands of themes available in the market; both free and paid versions. As it is a very popular application, your search for good theme will end up in a good result.

4. Plugins :- Plugin support is another big advantage of WordPress. You can find almost all types of your plugin needs with WordPress. Due to its wide range of user-base, plugin development and maintenance is very active in the community.

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