How to Login to Manage

J. Mays | Category: Billing + Manage, Getting Started, Series, Tutorials
Tagged with: account management • billing • manage • storm • Storm Server • virtual private server • VPS

Storm® Platform 101: Basic Interface Interaction

I. How to Login to Manage
II. An Introduction to Manage

The Manage interface is Liquid Web’s Account and Cloud Management Portal. From Manage it is possible to control your cloud servers and services, whether your deployment is one Storm® VPS (Virtual Private Server), or a combination of many Storm® Dedicated servers and other cloud services.

Manage will help you administer your private network, VPN (Virtual Private Network), CDN (Content Delivery Network), firewalls, upgrades, and much more!

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for logging into Liquid Web’s Account and Cloud Management Portal, called Manage.

Continue reading “How to Login to Manage” →

DNS Record Types

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support
Tagged with: dns • zone file

One of the many challenges that can face a person while attempting to make modifications to a zone file is knowing what all of the different records are used for. This article highlight several of the commonly used records in an attempt to help demystify them.

Continue reading “DNS Record Types” →

How to Install Git on Ubuntu 15.04

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: command line • core managed • git • linux • ssh • ubuntu • ubuntu 15.04 • vcs • version control

Introduction

Git is an open source, distributed version control system (VCS). It’s commonly used for source code management (SCM), with sites like GitHub offering a social coding experience, and popular projects such as Perl, Ruby on Rails, and the Linux kernel using it.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended for installing Git on Ubuntu 15.04.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed Ubuntu 15.04 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Continue reading “How to Install Git on Ubuntu 15.04” →

How to Install lsyncd on Fedora 22

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: fedora • fedora 22 • file synchronization • lsync • lsyncd • replication • rsync • synchronization

lsyncd is an rsync-based tool that monitors specified directories (including subdirectories) for updates and modifications, then syncs those changes to a specified destination.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for installing the lsyncd on Fedora 22.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 22 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Continue reading “How to Install lsyncd on Fedora 22” →

How to Install Logwatch on Fedora 22

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: fedora • fedora 22 • log files • logs • logwatch • perl

Logwatch is a Perl-based log management tool for analyzing, summarizing, and reporting on a server’s log files. It is most often used to send a short digest of a server’s log activity to a system administrator.

What are log files? Logs are application-generated files useful for tracking down and understanding what has happened in the past.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for installing the Logwatch on Fedora 22.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 22 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Continue reading “How to Install Logwatch on Fedora 22” →

How to Install the Memcached PHP Extension on Ubuntu 15.04

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: cache • caching • memcached • performance • ubuntu • ubuntu 15.04

Memcached is a distributed, high-performance, in-memory caching system that is primarily used to speed up sites that make heavy use of databases. It can however be used to store objects of any kind. Nearly every popular CMS has a plugin or module to take advantage of memcached, and many programming languages have a memcached library, including PHP, Perl, Ruby, and Python. Memcached runs in memory and is thus quite speedy, since it does not need to write data to disk.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for installing the Memcached PHP Extension on a single Ubuntu 15.04 node.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed Ubuntu 15.04 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.
Follow our tutorial on How to Install Memcached on Ubuntu 15.04 prior to this KB!

Continue reading “How to Install the Memcached PHP Extension on Ubuntu 15.04” →

How to Install and Configure Git on Fedora 22

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: command line • fedora • fedora 22 • git • linux • ssh • vcs • version control

Introduction

Git is a widely adopted, distributed version control system (VCS) and open source. It’s commonly used for source code management (SCM), with sites like GitHub offering a social coding experience, and popular projects such as Perl, Ruby on Rails, and the Linux kernel using it.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended for installing Git on Fedora 22.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 22 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Continue reading “How to Install and Configure Git on Fedora 22” →

How to Install and Configure vsftpd on Ubuntu 15.04

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: ftp • ubuntu • ubuntu 15.04 • vsftpd

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is likely the most well-known method of uploading files to a server; a wide array of FTP servers, such as vsftpd, and clients exist for every platform.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for installing the vsfptd on Ubuntu 15.04.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed Ubuntu 15.04 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Continue reading “How to Install and Configure vsftpd on Ubuntu 15.04” →

Change a Password for PostgreSQL on Linux via Command Line

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: authentication • authentication method • centos • database • fedora • md5 • password • postgres • postgresql • psql • systemctl • systemd • ubuntu

PostgreSQL supports many client authentication methods, but in this case we’re only going to concern ourselves with two: password and md5.

Note: The default authentication method for PostgreSQL is ident. If you’d like to change the PostgreSQL authentication method from ident to md5, then visit the linked tutorial!

Continue reading “Change a Password for PostgreSQL on Linux via Command Line” →

Change PostgreSQL Authentication Method from Ident to MD5

J. Mays | Category: Technical Support, Tutorials
Tagged with: authentication • authentication method • centos • database • fedora • ident • md5 • postgres • postgresql • psql • systemctl • systemd • ubuntu

PostgreSQL supports multiple client authentication methods including: trust, reject, md5, password, gss, sspi, krb5, ident, peer, ldap, radius, cert, and pam. Here we’re only going to concern ourselves with two: ident and md5.

Continue reading “Change PostgreSQL Authentication Method from Ident to MD5” →

Introduction

Pre-Flight Check

Pre-Flight Check

Pre-Flight Check

Pre-Flight Check

Introduction

Pre-Flight Check

Pre-Flight Check

Need Additional Help? We're Here.

Our Heroic Support team is available 24 hours per day.