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2015-10-13T05:03:56Z

‎Chip in with 5 bucks and be amazed

2015-10-13T05:02:55Z

‎Chip in with 5 bucks and be amazed

2015-10-13T04:56:17Z

‎Chip in with 5 bucks and be amazed

2015-03-21T02:40:22Z

‎Requirements for a JomSocial based site

2014-09-15T11:10:28Z

‎Enable Memcached

2014-09-15T10:56:24Z

‎Install Pagespeed module from Google

2014-09-15T10:53:44Z

‎Update OS

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2014-09-15T10:42:38Z

‎Enable OPCache

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‎Resources

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 == Chip in with 5 bucks and be amazed ==
-[[File:Digitalocean10free.png|200px|link=https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=db5c4ca59447|right|frame|$10 free credit to drive your server for 2 months]]
+[[File:Digitalocean10free.png|link=https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=db5c4ca59447|right|frame|200px|$10 free credit to drive your server for 2 months]]
 So, lets get straight to business. Where is that super server for $5 we are talking about?<br/>
 It is located on the [https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=db5c4ca59447 Digital Ocean].<br/>

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 == Chip in with 5 bucks and be amazed ==
-[[File:Digitalocean10free.png|link=https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=db5c4ca59447|right|frame|$10 free credit to drive your server for 2 months]]
+[[File:Digitalocean10free.png|200px|link=https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=db5c4ca59447|right|frame|$10 free credit to drive your server for 2 months]]
 So, lets get straight to business. Where is that super server for $5 we are talking about?<br/>
-It is located on the [https://cloud.digitalocean.com/login Digital Ocean].<br/>
+It is located on the [https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=db5c4ca59447 Digital Ocean].<br/>
-Login, and pay $5 which is minimum you need to [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-your-first-digitalocean-droplet-virtual-server launch the most basic droplet] <br/>
+<strike>Register, and pay $5 which is minimum you need to [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-your-first-digitalocean-droplet-virtual-server launch the most basic droplet] </strike><br/>
 As you can see, for just a $5 you get 1CPU, 512MB of RAM 20GB Solid State Disk and 1TB of transfer which is off the bat the better deal than anything you can find. Ofcourse, later you can easily increase your package. With minimum downtime, DigitalOcean does provide this possibility.
 :::[[File:Droplet-create.png ]]

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 == Chip in with 5 bucks and be amazed ==
 So, lets get straight to business. Where is that super server for $5 we are talking about?<br/>
 It is located on the [https://cloud.digitalocean.com/login Digital Ocean].<br/>
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 * '''Root password''' - Random string of text and numbers. You will be prompted to change this after first login
 You will see something like this once your droplet is created
 :::[[File:Droplet-finish.png]]
 ==First login on the server==

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 * '''Email Server''' - for sending out the emails from your site.
 * '''Cron Job''' - On every linux machine, cron jobs run as a system level process and is natively available
-* '''Optimization modules and handlers''' - We also need something to keep our website fast and ready for great performance. For this guide, we will use [http://modpagespeed.com/ mod_pagespeed from Google], [http://php.net/manual/en/book.opcache.php opcache] that is built into PHP 5.5 and [http://memcached.org/ Memcached]. [http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php APC] is not supported in PHP 5.5 because opcache comes as native layer and replacement for APC.
+* '''Optimization modules and handlers''' <span class="label label-warning">'''Not Required'''</span> - We also need something to keep our website fast and ready for great performance. For this guide, we will use [http://modpagespeed.com/ mod_pagespeed from Google], [http://php.net/manual/en/book.opcache.php opcache] that is built into PHP 5.5 and [http://memcached.org/ Memcached]. [http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php APC] is not supported in PHP 5.5 because opcache comes as native layer and replacement for APC.
 That is everything you need to kickstart a good hosting server. You might later want to install FFMPEG for video converting or additional PHP modules and extensions, which you will be able, because server that we are going to create is going to be self-managed, meaning, you will be your own server administrator.

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 Believe it or not, memcached is already completely installed and ready to go. Just restart the apache
 <pre>sudo service apache2 restart</pre>
 ==Install and configure Joomla==

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 ==Additional Modules and Cache handlers==
 ===Install Pagespeed module from Google===
 The goal of mod_pagespeed is to speed up your website. It does this by applying filters to a variety of files in order to reduce the number of trips the browser has to make to grab what it needs, to reduce the size of those files and to optimize the length those files are cached.<br/>

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 ==Update software and edit php.ini==
 ===Update OS===
-Since we installed stack version of LAMP on Ubuntu, there are two major softwares we need to update. Ubuntu itself and PHP<br/>
+Since we installed stack version of LAMP on Ubuntu, we need to update our operating system with new bugfixes and packages.<br/>
 First, restart the server as this step is required to get new updates. Type:
 <pre>reboot now</pre>
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 Answer with yes and wait for your server to get updated with latest software.<br/>
 <br/>
 ===Install cURL===
 To enhance the functionality of PHP, we can optionally install some additional modules.<br/> cURL is one of them that is needed, but not installed with default LAMP stack<br/>

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	{{alert\|<strong>Warning:</strong> This article explains how to setup your own server and will focus on using Terminal to login on remote Linux machine. Although might look like it is written for experienced Linux administrators, you can follow it and setup your server even without any, linux terminal knowledge.\|alert}}		{{alert\|<strong>Warning:</strong> This article explains how to setup your own server and will focus on using Terminal to login on remote Linux machine. Although might look like it is written for experienced Linux administrators, you can follow it and setup your server even without any, linux terminal knowledge.\|alert}}
	==Overview==		==Overview==

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 ===Enable OPCache===
-Soon
+Zend OPCache is already available in PHP, we only have to modify php.ini to enable it<br/>
 ===Enable Memcached===

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	Starting at just $5 you now have an super optimized server for best performance, packed with features that you can rarely find in any web hosting with CPanel. In fact, you might but in most cases, you'll have to ask hosting support for every minor configuration you want to make.		Starting at just $5 you now have an super optimized server for best performance, packed with features that you can rarely find in any web hosting with CPanel. In fact, you might but in most cases, you'll have to ask hosting support for every minor configuration you want to make.
	==Resources==		==Resources==
		+	Soon