Lately I recognized that the RAM on this server is pretty full. A bit freed up when I removed the Piwik Analytics install recently. But still, it was too full for too little stuff running.

It's never a good idea to let doors open. Neither should there be unnecessary open ports on your server. With Iptables, a firewall shipped with Ubuntu, it's not that hard to secure your server. A very detailed and nice introduction can be found in t…

Since there is php-fpm in Nginx it's save to run PHP applications without an Apache webserver just using Nginx. I'll explain how to set up php-fpm to run your php app. My system runs on Ubuntu 12.04 server and Nginx is already installed and running.