The Perfect NGINX Server CentOS Edition

The Perfect NGINX Server – CentOS Edition, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.9, with 102 lectures, based on 213 reviews, and has 1397 subscribers.

You will learn about Setup, from scratch, a secured, hardened and optimized CentOS based Virtual Private Server Purchase, from any host, an unmanaged VPS and have the knowledge to setup the VPS correctly and most importantly securely Using NGINX, host and serve multiple WordPress sites on a single CentOS based server. Install, secure and optimize NGINX, MariaDB and PHP Install a WordPress site in a few seconds using the WordPress Command Line Interface Secure and Optimize a WordPress site correctly Install multiple WordPress sites on a single server Install FREE Lets Encrypt SSL certificates and configure automatic renewal of the SSL certificates for all your sites hosted on the server Create a site backup solution to backup your sites – plugin free This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to host their sites using NGINX or Anyone who is tired of Apache and the .htaccess files that slow down your site. or Site slow? NGINX delivers sites up to 70% faster than Apache or Anyone who wants to benefit from the rock solid stability of CentOS or This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS or Anyone who wants to secure a WordPress site correctly – without plugins or If you have ever wondered how do I move my WordPress site? or How do I backup my WordPress site? WITHOUT plugins or Web developers who want to offer additional services to their clients and earn an additional recurring income. It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to host their sites using NGINX or Anyone who is tired of Apache and the .htaccess files that slow down your site. or Site slow? NGINX delivers sites up to 70% faster than Apache or Anyone who wants to benefit from the rock solid stability of CentOS or This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS or Anyone who wants to secure a WordPress site correctly – without plugins or If you have ever wondered how do I move my WordPress site? or How do I backup my WordPress site? WITHOUT plugins or Web developers who want to offer additional services to their clients and earn an additional recurring income.

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Summary

Title: The Perfect NGINX Server – CentOS Edition

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.9

Number of Lectures: 102

Number of Published Lectures: 101

Number of Curriculum Items: 102

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 101

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Setup, from scratch, a secured, hardened and optimized CentOS based Virtual Private Server

Purchase, from any host, an unmanaged VPS and have the knowledge to setup the VPS correctly and most importantly securely

Using NGINX, host and serve multiple WordPress sites on a single CentOS based server.

Install, secure and optimize NGINX, MariaDB and PHP

Install a WordPress site in a few seconds using the WordPress Command Line Interface

Secure and Optimize a WordPress site correctly

Install multiple WordPress sites on a single server

Install FREE Lets Encrypt SSL certificates and configure automatic renewal of the SSL certificates for all your sites hosted on the server

Create a site backup solution to backup your sites – plugin free

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to host their sites using NGINX

Anyone who is tired of Apache and the .htaccess files that slow down your site.

Site slow? NGINX delivers sites up to 70% faster than Apache

Anyone who wants to benefit from the rock solid stability of CentOS

This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS

Anyone who wants to secure a WordPress site correctly – without plugins

If you have ever wondered how do I move my WordPress site?

How do I backup my WordPress site? WITHOUT plugins

Web developers who want to offer additional services to their clients and earn an additional recurring income.

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to host their sites using NGINX

Anyone who is tired of Apache and the .htaccess files that slow down your site.

Site slow? NGINX delivers sites up to 70% faster than Apache

Anyone who wants to benefit from the rock solid stability of CentOS

This course is meant for anyone who is tired of shared hosting and wants discover the benefits hosting their WordPress sites on a VPS

Anyone who wants to secure a WordPress site correctly – without plugins

If you have ever wondered how do I move my WordPress site?

How do I backup my WordPress site? WITHOUT plugins

Web developers who want to offer additional services to their clients and earn an additional recurring income.

The PERFECT NGINX SERVER – CENTOS EDITION

Course covers both CentOS 7 and Rocky Linux 8.x

This is abeginners course thatassumes you have no knowledge configuring aCentOSserver orNGINX.

NGINX is a high performance web server that is responsible for serving almost all of the most popular sites in the world. You can serve your WordPress sites using the same web server as the busiest sites in the world. NGINX can deliver your site(s) up to 70% faster than Apache.

CentOS is a free operating system derived entirely from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. CentOS provides an enterprise class server operating system and is probably the most popular Linux distribution for servers. The main reason is stability. When you think of CentOS, think of stability and rock solid reliability with uptime measured in years rather than weeks.

I will teach you, step by step, to a point where you will have the skill, knowledge and confidence to host multiple secure and optimized WordPress sites on an unmanaged Virtual Private Server. You will need no support from your host. You will be your own system administrator and tech support agent.

Never used the command line before? Never edited a configuration file before? No problem, I will teach you and provide you with the knowledge you need. This course also includes a Linux Essential Skills Crash Course – learn the basics quickly and easily.

I cover all aspects, no matter if your are using Windows or MACOSX. We will download the software, I’ll show you how to install and configure the software and most important how to use the software. Prior to each section, I’ll explain what we are doing, why we are doing it and in plain easy to understand English. You wont find any long and boring PowerPoint presentations and minute after minute looking at me talking to the camera. Its us and the command line, nothing else. The command line is easy to use, just think of terminal as a very basic word processor. I’ll be there guiding you step by step.

This course covers the entire spectrum of configuring a CentOS based NGINX server. We will cover everything from initial server configuration to installing NGINX, MariaDB and php7.4. We will configure, secure and optimize nginx, install, secure and optimize WordPress and end with installing Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates and plugin free backups.

The most important aspect of any server is security. I don’t just glance over this aspect, every configuration step you will take is geared towards security. Some of the security aspects included in the course are: SSH Keys, the firewall, fail2ban, changing “dangerous” default settings, NGINX “deny” directives and Security Enhanced Linux. These are just some of the steps we are going to use in securing your server and your sites. Installing a WordPress “security plugin” does not secure your server or your WordPress site. Some “security plugins” are a source of vulnerabilities themselves.

We will NOT disable SELinux ( Security Enhanced Linux ) to make security configuration easier, we will configure SELinux to work with our existing security configuration.

After security we need to look at site optimization. Speed is everything and with our optimization NGINX will deliver WordPress sites at blazingly fast speeds. We will use a varied approach to optimization – command line, “caching” directives, server side object and page caching. Only after optimizing the server will we look at WordPress caching plugins. A caching plugin is used to complement the server configuration, its not meant to be your first choice in optimization.

Performance: Redis Object Caching, FastCGI Caching, W3 Total Cache and how to correctly enable Cloudflare on your VPS.

Security: stop xmlrpc.php and the seemingly never ending wp-login.php attacks using Nginx Rate Limiting. Make use of nginx directives to block certain user agents, spam bots and common exploits. Nginx directives also aid in stopping certain sql and file injection attacks. Further protect your site by restricting from where assets can be fetched by the clients browser using a Content Security Policy.

By the end of this course, you will be ready to reap the benefits. There will be numerous new services you will be adding to your resume as a web developer. You will be able to charge for numerous new services –  site hosting, site optimization, ssl certificate installation and renewal, backups and even a monthly maintenance fee. This course will add a new recurring revenue stream – monthly recurring income – hosting your own sites using NGINX.

This course was not designed to be completed locally, on your pc or mac or using one of the many available “Virtual Machines”. Oracle’s VirtualBox is one example. The aim of the course is to instruct you on how to setup a secure/hardened hosting environment and then host multiple hardened WordPress sites on a commercially purchased VPS or dedicated server.

This course is not a lab experiment with no real-world application.

All that’s left is for you to sign up for this course and start your wonderful journey as your very own system administrator running multiple NGINX powered WordPress sites on a CentOS based server.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Software Required

Lecture 3: 2019 Update: Server Specifications and Web Hosts

Chapter 2: Linux Essential Skills

Lecture 1: Linux Essential Skills – Introduction

Lecture 2: Linux Essential Skills – Terminal Prompt

Lecture 3: Linux Essential Skills – Typing a Command

Lecture 4: Linux Essential Skills – Navigating the File System

Lecture 5: Linux Essential Skills – Configuration Files

Lecture 6: Linux Essential Skills – Nano

Lecture 7: Linux Essential Skills – Users

Lecture 8: Linux Essential Skills – Ownership

Lecture 9: Linux Essential Skills – Permissions

Lecture 10: Linux Essential Skills – Packages and YUM

Chapter 3: CENTOS 7: Initial Server Configuration and Security

Lecture 1: First Server Login – ROOT User

Lecture 2: First Server Login – NON ROOT User

Lecture 3: SSH Key Authentication

Lecture 4: SSH Key Authentication – Config File

Lecture 5: The Firewall

Lecture 6: Fail2Ban

Chapter 4: CENTOS 7: Install, Secure and Optimize NGINX MariaDB and PHP

Lecture 1: Install NGINX

Lecture 2: Install and Secure MariaDB

Lecture 3: Configure MariaDB

Lecture 4: Further MariaDB Configuration

Lecture 5: Install and Secure PHP

Lecture 6: Configure Unix Socket

Chapter 5: CentOS 8 – Introduction

Lecture 1: CentOS 8 – Introduction

Chapter 6: CentOS 8 & Rocky Linux – Initial Server Security

Lecture 1: First Login and Initial Server Hardening as the ROOT User – Part 1

Lecture 2: First Login and Initial Server Hardening as the ROOT User – Part 2

Lecture 3: Initial Server Hardening as the NON ROOT User – Introduction

Lecture 4: Initial Server Hardening as the NON ROOT User – SSH Key Aiuthentication

Lecture 5: Initial Server Hardening as the NON ROOT User – Config File

Lecture 6: Initial Server Hardening as the NON ROOT User – Server Updates

Lecture 7: Initial Server Hardening as the NON ROOT User – The Firewall

Lecture 8: Initial Server Hardening as the NON ROOT User – Fail2Ban

Lecture 9: Initial Server Hardening as the NON ROOT User – Conclusion

Chapter 7: CentOS 8 & Rocky Linux – Install, Harden & Optimize NGINX MARIADB & PHP

Lecture 1: Install NGINX & MARIADB

Lecture 2: Install PHP

Lecture 3: Harden NGINX, MARIADB & PHP

Lecture 4: Optimize NGINX & MARIADB

Lecture 5: Optimize PHP

Chapter 8: Centos 7, 8 and Rocky Linux: NGINX

Lecture 1: Understanding NGINX Configuration Structure and Terminology – Part 1

Lecture 2: Understanding NGINX Configuration Structure and Terminology – Part 2

Lecture 3: Understanding NGINX Configuration Structure and Terminology – Part 3

Lecture 4: Organizing, Securing and Optimizing NGINX – Part 1

Lecture 5: Organizing, Securing and Optimizing NGINX – Part 2

Lecture 6: Organizing, Securing and Optimizing NGINX – Part 3

Lecture 7: Creating Site Directories

Lecture 8: NGINX Server Blocks

Lecture 9: MariaDB Login Reminder

Lecture 10: Host Your First WordPress Site on the Server – Part 1

Lecture 11: Host Your First WordPress Site on the Server – Part 2

Chapter 9: Securing WordPress

Lecture 1: Securing Your WordPress Site – Part 1

Lecture 2: Securing Your WordPress Site – Part 2

Lecture 3: Securing Your WordPress Site – Part 3 – SELinux

Lecture 4: Securing Your WordPress Site – Part 4 – SELinux

Lecture 5: Securing Your WordPress Site – Part 5

Lecture 6: Securing Your WordPress Site – Part 6

Lecture 7: Securing Your WordPress Site – Part 7

Lecture 8: Secure xmlrpc.php & wp-login.php Using NGINX Rate Limiting

Chapter 10: SSL Certificates

Lecture 1: Lets Encrypt – Part 1

Lecture 2: Lets Encrypt – Part 2

Lecture 3: Lets Encrypt – Part 3

Lecture 4: Lets Encrypt – Part 4

Lecture 5: Lets Encrypt – Part 5

Lecture 6: Lets Encrypt – Part 6

Lecture 7: Implement HTTPS Everywhere Policy on your site(s)

Chapter 11: Optimizing WordPress

Lecture 1: Optimizing WordPress

Lecture 2: Optimizing WordPress Using W3 Total Cache

Lecture 3: Optimizing WordPress Using Object Caching – Redis

Lecture 4: Configure Cloudflare on your VPS

Lecture 5: NGINX FastCGI Caching

Chapter 12: Content Security Policy

Lecture 1: Create a Content Security Policy (CSP) for your WordPress Sites – Part 1

Lecture 2: Create a Content Security Policy (CSP) for your WordPress Sites – Part 2

Chapter 13: Additional Security Layer

Lecture 1: NGINX and Fail2Ban

Chapter 14: Adding Additional Sites – Serve Multiple WordPress Sites From Your Server

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: 1 – Configure DNS

Lecture 3: 2 – Create Site Directories

Lecture 4: 3 – Configure NGINX Server Blocks

Lecture 5: 4 – Install WordPress Site

Lecture 6: 5 – Secure WordPress

Lecture 7: 6 – Secure WP – NGINX Directives

Lecture 8: 7 – Install LE Cert

Lecture 9: 8 – Configure SSL Blocks NGINX

Lecture 10: 9 – Auto Renew SSL

Lecture 11: 10 – Implement HTTPS Everywhere Policy on your site(s)

Lecture 12: 11 – Optimize WordPress

Instructors

Andrew Eaton
WordPress and Linux Guru

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2 stars: 4 votes

3 stars: 12 votes

4 stars: 31 votes

5 stars: 165 votes

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