Learn Web Servers

Learn how to use web servers to host your applications successfully. These tutorials cover a wide range of techniques for making effective use of web servers.

All Web Servers content:

  1. Improving SEO Using Nginx

    Improving SEO Using Nginx

    Tutorial Beginner

    SEO is about making your websites rank higher in organic results. This tutorial will guide you through some basic steps to improve performance of your...

  2. New Course: Easy Node.js Development Environment With Vagrant

    New Course: Easy Node.js Development Environment With Vagrant

    Tutorial Beginner

    When developing a Node.js app, you will probably need one or more of these dependencies: a database server, a key-value store, a background worker or a...

  3. Working With Nginx

    Working With Nginx

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This article will cover some basic techniques for using Nginx, such as managing configuration files, debug mode, CLI, and auto-indexing.

  4. Get Started With Monitoring Your Web Application Using New Relic Alerts

    Get Started With Monitoring Your Web Application Using New Relic Alerts

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to create software alerts for your web-based application using New Relic's new Alerts system.

  5. Running Your Own Open Source Email Server: Administering iRedMail

    Running Your Own Open Source Email Server: Administering iRedMail

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Now that you've installed iRedMail, I'll guide you through configuring and customizing your new mail server with the iRedAdmin administrative panel and other...

  6. Nginx Guide: Essentials

    Nginx Guide: Essentials

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article you'll learn about the essential nginx modules and get a list of other important resources for building your own nginx modules.

  7. Nginx Guide: Introduction

    Nginx Guide: Introduction

    Tutorial Beginner

    More than 20% of sites on the internet use Nginx as their web server. How can you use it for your website?

  8. Running Your Own Open Source Email Server

    Running Your Own Open Source Email Server

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Whether for security, privacy, economy, control or just plain geeky reasons, iRedMail with Roundcube makes a compelling choice for running your own mail server.

  9. How to Back Up a WordPress Site with CodeGuard

    How to Back Up a WordPress Site with CodeGuard

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Use CodeGuard's website time machine to configure secure backup services for your WordPress site, files and databases.

  10. Securing Your Server Login

    Securing Your Server Login

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Here's our guide to a handful of common approaches to securing access to your Linux-based web and application server. You'll learn about adding two-factor...

  11. Using New Relic to Monitor Your Servers

    Using New Relic to Monitor Your Servers

    Tutorial Beginner

    Today we will look at how to use New Relic to monitor your infrastructure (i.e. your production server) and why you'd want to.

  12. Easily Deploy Redis Backed Web Apps With Docker

    Easily Deploy Redis Backed Web Apps With Docker

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to setup and deploy a Redis powered Python web app using Docker.