Set Up A WordPress VPS With Centos & Apache

Lets learn how to set up a VPS with Apache & PHP & install WordPress in it. (i) Choose Centos 6 32 bit as your operating system (OS) from your VPS’ control panel; (ii) Update Centos with the command yum update (iii) Install apache with the command yum install httpd (if you run into a

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Create MySQL database with SSH command

MySQL databases can be created either through phpmyadmin or through the SSH command line Lets see how to create a MySQL database with SSH command (i) First log in to mysql with your user name (change if not root). You will be prompted for a password. mysql -u root -p (ii) create the database with

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How to optimize and speed up your site

Increasing the speed with which a page loads involves aspects (i) the server configuration and (ii) the web pages (or wordpress) configuration. First, lets look at how we can speed up the time that it takes for the server to respond. (i) Using nginx instead of apache: My personal experience has been that nginx responds

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Why keyword stuffing should be avoided

In trying to understand how google ranks a page in its search results, I learnt that keywords were important. Google determines the relevance of a page based on the density of the keywords and ranks it accordingly. So, a page which has more occurrences of ‘Nikon D2’ will be deemed to be a page on

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