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Looking Low Cost External LEMP Server Management
Any ideas about this ?
We need a low cost LEMP server management service, basically to handle any issues with Nginx or help us with some optimization in the server.
The server is already installed with LEMP centminmod stack (nginx + PHP-FPM + MariaDB + HTTPS / HTTP/2 + CSF + Memcached ) and in production, there's a WordPress site in it, that's it.
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It'd probably be cheaper and give you more peace of mind to just move it to a managed WordPress service.
@KeyJey if you have issues or questions, you might want to sign up for official Centmin Mod LEMP stack forums https://community.centminmod.com/ and maybe learn to manage your own servers. After all you'll be a future Centmin Mod expert eventually
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Centmin Mod LEMP stack setups are pretty different from your usual LEMP stacks so not sure how many 3rd party managed services would fully know how to support /manage them. There's a few folks doing Centmin Mod based managed services for Xenforo & Invision forum folks. I know a few web hosts who are playing with Centmin Mod or have instructed their techs to learn/practice with Centmin Mod. But none of those are currently advertising it publicly.
Right now there's only 2 I'd recommend who know their way around Centmin Mod LEMP stacks and system admin in general would be:
Friend Matt who offers Centmin Mod install https://mattwservices.co.uk/products/centos-nginx-build.12/ and management https://mattwservices.co.uk/resources/monthly-server-maintenance.41/
Folks at Bigscoots https://www.bigscoots.com - they're only web host i know who is using Centmin Mod in production for their own site(s) and according to my Centmin Mod users are offering managed hosting where customers can request using Centmin Mod instead of WHM/Cpanel ! Not sure if they're still doing that, so might want to ask.
CTM feature set is great , but am I the only one who feels it's kind of complicated and hard to use ?
ServerPilot.io was the perfect solution for you.
CTM = Centmin Mod ? Maybe too much documentation ? Reading, learning and practice is the key to picking up any new skills/tech understanding
Once you have read all the documentation, you will find there's alot of shortcuts if you want to use them. For example, installing and setting up Xenforo 2.0.0 Betas via SSH command line https://community.centminmod.com/threads/xenforo-2-0-0-beta-1-released.12781/ or generate multiple nginx vhosts and mysql datbabases at same time https://community.centminmod.com/threads/guide-save-time-creating-nginx-vhost-mysql-users-and-databases.8257/
Install Centmin Mod latest beta + set nginx vhost domain = domain.com with letsencrypt ssl certificate and http/2 https default (with http to https redirect can be done in a few SSH commands
Install
yum -y update; curl -O https://centminmod.com/betainstaller.sh && chmod 0700 betainstaller.sh && bash betainstaller.sh
Enable Letsencrypt integration
Create a new Nginx with letsencrypt free ssl certificate where domain.com and www.domain.com DNS A record point to server IP using either addons/acmetool.sh outlined at https://centminmod.com/acmetool
or nv command line
nv -d domain.com -s lelived -u ftpusername
nv command help examples
or via centmin mod shell based centmin.sh menu option 2
Create MySQL database named = mydb with username = myadmin and password = mypass using addons/mysqladmin_shell.sh https://community.centminmod.com/threads/mysqladmin_shell-sh-shell-based-addon.543/
If that is too much for install, I also have official Linode stackscript for automated Centmin Mod installs at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/official-centmin-mod-linode-stackscript.12513/
So there's various ways to create domain nginx vhosts and mysql databases etc so you can script or automate your own setups. But yes, you're not going know all this without reading and practicing