Wednesday, January 29, 2020

How to Easily Set Up a Mail Server on Debian 10 Buster with iRedMail

Setting up your own email server on Linux from scratch is a pain in the butt, if you are not a skilled server admin. This tutorial will be showing you how to use iRedMail to quickly set up a full-featured mail server on Debian 10, saving you lots of time and headaches. What is iRedMail?…


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How to Easily Set Up a Mail Server on Debian 10 Buster with iRedMail

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Use Postfix Transport Map and Relay Map For Flexible Email Delivery

In previous tutorials we discussed how to quickly set up a full-featured mail server using iRedMail or Modoboa, and we also learned how to set up SMTP relay with Postfix SMTP server to bypass port 25 blocking or IP blacklists. However, you might not want to set up your entire email server to use relay…


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Use Postfix Transport Map and Relay Map For Flexible Email Delivery

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Run Apache, Nginx & HAProxy on Same Server (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS)

If you’re a server admin, you probably have a web server of your choice like Apache, or Nginx. Apache is a well-known web server since the 1990s. Nginx was first developed in 2004 and quickly gained traction due to its lightweight memory footprint and fast processing speed for static HTML files. Both Apache and Nginx…


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Run Apache, Nginx & HAProxy on Same Server (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS)

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Install Roundcube Webmail on CentOS 8/RHEL 8 with Apache/Nginx

Roundcube is a free and open source webmail client written in PHP. A webmail is a mail client in your browser, which means instead of reading and sending emails from a desktop mail client like Mozilla Thunderbird, you can access your email from a web browser. Roundcube functionality includes MIME support, address book, folder management,…


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Install Roundcube Webmail on CentOS 8/RHEL 8 with Apache/Nginx

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Part 4: Set Up SPF and DKIM with Postfix on CentOS/RHEL Mail Server

After completing part 1 and part 2, we have a working Postfix SMTP server and Dovecot IMAP server. We can send and receive email using a desktop email client. Although I have created correct MX, A and PTR record, my emails were flagged as spam by Gmail and Outlook mail. So in this part, we…


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Part 4: Set Up SPF and DKIM with Postfix on CentOS/RHEL Mail Server

Thursday, January 16, 2020

PostfixAdmin – Create Virtual Mailboxes on CentOS/RHEL Mail Server

In previous articles, we discussed how to set up your own mail server on CentOS/RHEL from scratch. In part 1 and part 2 of this tutorial series, we learned how to set up Postfix SMTP server and Dovecot IMAP server, but so far we can only have email addresses for users with local Unix account.…


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PostfixAdmin – Create Virtual Mailboxes on CentOS/RHEL Mail Server

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Part 2: Install Dovecot IMAP Server on CentOS and Enable TLS Encryption

This is part 2 of building your own email server from scratch on CentOS/RHEL tutorial series. In part 1, we showed you how to set up a basic Postfix SMTP server. In this tutorial, we are going to configure our email server so that we can receive and send emails using a desktop email client…


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Part 2: Install Dovecot IMAP Server on CentOS and Enable TLS Encryption

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Run Your Own Email Server on CentOS - Postfix SMTP Server

Why run your own email server? Perhaps you have a website, which needs to send emails to users, or maybe you want to store your emails on your own server to protect your privacy. However, building your own email server from scratch can be a pain in the butt because there are so many software…


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Run Your Own Email Server on CentOS - Postfix SMTP Server

How to Set Up Postfix SMTP Relay on CentOS with Mailjet

This tutorial is going to show you how to set up Postfix SMTP relay with Mailjet on CentOS/RHEL. Postfix is a popular open-source SMTP server. Previously I wrote an article how to easily set up a full-blown email server on CentOS/RHEL with Modoboa, which helped a lot of readers run their own email server. However,…


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How to Set Up Postfix SMTP Relay on CentOS with Mailjet

Thursday, January 9, 2020

How to Install Ghost Blogging Platform on CentOS 8/RHEL 8 Server

This tutorial will be showing you how to install the Ghost blogging platform on CentOS 8/RHEL 8 server. Ghost is an open-source blogging software coded in Node.js, allowing you to create modern, beautiful blogs. Compared to WordPress, Ghost is lightweight and much faster because it’s built specifically for blogging and isn’t a comprehensive content management…


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How to Install Ghost Blogging Platform on CentOS 8/RHEL 8 Server

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Set Up Your Own BIND9 DNS Resolver on CentOS 8/RHEL 8

This tutorial will be showing you how to set up a local DNS resolver on CentOS 8/RHEL 8, with the widely-used BIND9 DNS software. There are many synonyms for DNS resolver, some of which are listed below. They all refer to the same thing. full resolver (in contrast to stub resolver) DNS recursor recursive DNS…


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Set Up Your Own BIND9 DNS Resolver on CentOS 8/RHEL 8

Monday, January 6, 2020

How to Install CentOS 8 on VPS in VNC Mode

This tutorial is going to show you how to install CentOS 8 on a VPS (virtual private server) in VNC mode. This is useful when your hosting provider doesn’t offer CentOS 8 in one-click install, or you want to customize the installation, such as encrypting the disk. VNC (Virtual Network Computing) allows you to manage…


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How to Install CentOS 8 on VPS in VNC Mode

How to Host Multiple Mail Domains in PostfixAdmin

This tutorial will be showing you how to set up multiple mail domains (virtual hosting) with PostfixAdmin, which is an open-source web-based interface to configure and manage a Postfix based email server for many domains and users. Prerequisites To follow this tutorial, it’s assumed that you have already configured PostfixAdmin with one mail domain and…


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How to Host Multiple Mail Domains in PostfixAdmin

Friday, January 3, 2020

Set Up OpenConnect VPN Server (ocserv) on CentOS 8/RHEL 8 with Let’s Encrypt

This tutorial is going to show you how to run your own VPN server by installing OpenConnect VPN server on CentOS 8/RHEL 8. OpenConnect VPN server, aka ocserv, is an open-source implementation of the Cisco AnyConnnect VPN protocol, which is widely-used in businesses and universities. AnyConnect is a SSL-based VPN protocol that allows individual users…


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Set Up OpenConnect VPN Server (ocserv) on CentOS 8/RHEL 8 with Let’s Encrypt