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Simple Guide to Monitor System Metrics with TICK Stack on CentOS 7

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Simple Guide to Monitor System Metrics with TICK Stack on CentOS 7Monitoring system metrics is an essential part of maintaining the health and performance of a server. With TICK Stack, it’s easy to monitor and visualize system metrics in real-time. In this guide, we will walk you through the steps to install and set up TICK Stack on CentOS 7 to monitor system metrics.

What is TICK Stack?
TICK Stack is a set of open-source tools used for monitoring and visualizing time-series data. The name stands for Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor. Each tool serves a specific purpose in the monitoring and visualization process. Telegraf is used for data collection, InfluxDB for data storage, Chronograf for data visualization, and Kapacitor for alerting and anomaly detection.

Step 1: Install Telegraf
Telegraf is a data collector that collects data from various sources and sends it to InfluxDB for storage. To install Telegraf, follow these steps: Read More

How to Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on Ubuntu 20.04

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How to Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on Ubuntu 20.04Nginx is a highly popular and efficient web server that is widely used on Linux servers. It allows you to configure it as a standalone web server or as a reverse proxy for other web applications. In this article, we will learn how to configure Nginx as a web server and reverse proxy for Apache on a Ubuntu 20.04 server in your web hosting.

Step 1: Install Nginx and Apache on Ubuntu 20.04

First, we need to install Nginx and Apache on our Ubuntu 20.04 server. You can do this by using the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx apache2

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How to speed up WordPress with Plugins

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WordPress is one of the most preferred and most actively used open-source ready-made website application on the
internet. However, it is important to underline that some WordPress sites, especially WordPress, is gaining a lot of
complaints about slowness from users. An essential factor to consider is your configuration of WordPress; depending on
how you have set up your WordPress it can negatively affect the performance of your website. Websites that perform
on the WordPress infrastructure are generally slow due to database overflow; features such as theme elements, plugins
and plugins on a theme can be the blame for this. Optimizing the CSS, JavaScript, plugins and image files being used by
themes can help reduce and lighten the load on your site considerably. However, to perform these actions, you may
have to interfere with software operation, which may force you to do somethings manually on WordPress. However, if
you are not a programmer, this task can be very tedious and challenging.
You can install plugins that can help boost your WordPress infrastructure that you will be able to notice. I have compiled
a list of plugins that may help you to improve the performance of your WordPress site. Let’s dive in, shall we? Read More