How To Guides
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How to Move a Wordpress Website from Cyberpanel to Webdock
A step-by-step guide to migrate your Wordpress site from Cyberpanel to Webdock
Last updated: February 12th 2025
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How to Move A Wordpress Site From Plesk to Webdock
Step-by-step instructions to move your Wordpress site from Plesk to Webdock
Last updated: February 12th 2025
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How to Move a Wordpress Website from DirectAdmin to Webdock
Step-by-step instructions to migrate your Wordpress site from DirectAdmin to Webdock
Last updated: February 12th 2025
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Optimizing Network Speed on Your Webdock KVM Server
A mini article with some kernel tweaks to improve network performance on your server
Last updated: September 6th 2024
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How to configure Crontab on Linux
In this article we detail how Crontab works and all the available options for configuration along with correct syntax and examples.
Last updated: January 4th 2024
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How to free up disk space on an Ubuntu Nginx or Apache Web Server
This article outlines useful commands you can run on your server in order to free up disk space.
Last updated: October 16th 2023
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How to enable Remote access to your MariaDB/MySQL database on Ubuntu Focal / MariaDB > v10.6
In this article we show how you can easily enable remote access to a new database in Webdock..
Last updated: November 10th 2022
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How to enable Remote access to your MariaDB/MySQL database on Ubuntu Bionic or MariaDB < v10.6
In this article we show how you can easily enable remote access to a new database in Webdock or alternatively how to perform the process manually if you need fine-grained access control
Last updated: December 28th 2022
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How to back up your MariaDB/MySQL database
An article on backing up your database and enabling binary log.
Last updated: February 12th 2025
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Server Security Checklist
In this article we list a number of things you should check if you are setting up a server from scratch as well as a few things which can enhance security on our Perfect Server Stacks.
Last updated: November 10th 2022
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How to check for open ports on your Ubuntu server
This article details various approaches to finding out which ports are open and accessible on your server.
Last updated: November 10th 2022
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How to work with your firewall (UFW - Uncomplicated Firewall)
In this article we show how UFW - or Uncomplicated Firewall - works along with common commands and usage examples.
Last updated: January 10th 2024
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How to Configure Nginx to serve Multiple Websites on a Single VPS
Learn how to serve multiple websites living in each their own web root with Nginx on Webdock Stacks.
Last updated: November 10th 2022
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How to Configure Apache to serve Multiple Websites on a Single VPS
Learn how to serve multiple websites living in each their own web root with Apache on Webdock Stacks.
Last updated: November 10th 2022
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How to issue Let's Encrypt certificates for multiple websites (Nginx and Apache)
Learn how to issue SSL certificates for each individual site you have set up in a shared hosting / multiple website environment using one of our previous guides.
Last updated: November 10th 2022
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How to install OpenLiteSpeed on Webdock
In this article we show you how you can install the OpenLiteSpeed web server on Ubuntu Jammy.
Last updated: March 29th 2023
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How to Deploy your First Node.js Application on your Ubuntu Web Server
Deploy a Node.js application on your Ubuntu server and how to issue SSL certificates for your Node application.
Last updated: July 19th 2023
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How to set up WireGuard on your Webdock Server
This article details how you can quickly and easily install WireGuard on your Webdock Server.
Last updated: February 17th 2025
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Overview of Desktop Environments
In this introductionary article we go through the main Desktop environments you can install on your Webdock server and what their pros and cons are as well as what the recommended system requirements are.
Last updated: May 3rd 2023
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How to connect to your Desktop with a RDP client
This article details how you can connect to your XRDP daemon in order to use your Desktop Environment of choice on your Webdock server.
Last updated: May 3rd 2023
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How to install NoMachine on your Webdock server
NoMachine is a proprietary software application for remote access which can be a great alternative to XRDP as it offers much better performance and more features out of the box.
Last updated: February 19th 2025
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A production workflow for Laravel using Webdock servers
In this series we'll show you how to create a basic workflow between your local development environment and a live environment on our server stacks, leveraging git and git hooks
Last updated: February 24th 2025
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Laravel development server with aaPanel on Webdock VPS for beginners
In this article we are going to explain how to easily setup Laravel development server for beginners.
Last updated: February 24th 2025
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Laravel development server with aaPanel on Webdock VPS for beginners - Part 2
Building on our previous article, we are going to install and configure user authentication logic with CSS and JS scaffolding for frontend. In this way we will test database connection and email connection by building something meaningful and reusable.
Last updated: December 24th 2021
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Migrate your WordPress website to Webdock for free, without downtime using plugins
This guide shows how to migrate a Wordpress website without downtime to your Webdock server using a Wordpress plugin.
Last updated: February 12th 2025
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Migrating a Wordpress site to Webdock
Our friend Erik Hanchett shows in this video how you can move a Wordpress site from any server to Webdock.
Last updated: July 19th 2022
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Fixing Wordpress Redirect Issues
Wordpress really likes to redirect to the website address where it thinks it is installed. This may cause infinite redirect loops where you get a browser error, or your site is redirecting you to an old or unexpected address. Learn how to fix these issues.
Last updated: July 19th 2022
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How to install and run Docker containers on a Webdock Ubuntu server
Learn how to manually install and run Docker containers in an optimized way on a Webdock server
Last updated: February 19th 2025
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How to install and run Docker containers on a Webdock AlmaLinux 8 server
Learn how to manually install and run Docker containers in an optimized way on a Webdock server
Last updated: July 29th 2024
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How to install and run Docker containers on a Webdock CentOS 8 server
Learn how to manually install and run Docker containers in an optimized way on a Webdock server
Last updated: July 29th 2024
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Upgrading your webservers from Ubuntu Xenial to Ubuntu Bionic
In this article we go through the steps you need to take to upgrade a web server (LAMP or LEMP) to the new Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver.
Last updated: September 15th 2019
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Upgrading your webservers from Ubuntu Bionic to Ubuntu Focal
In this article we go through the steps you need to take to upgrade a web server (LAMP or LEMP) to the new Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa
Last updated: July 15th 2020
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Upgrading your webservers from Ubuntu Focal to Ubuntu Jammy
In this article we go through the steps you need to take to upgrade a web server (LAMP or LEMP) to the new Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
Last updated: May 11th 2022
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Node.js, Bun.js, and Deno: How JavaScript Runtimes Have Changed
An short article on different javascript runtimes: Node, Bun, and Deno
Last updated: February 5th 2025
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JavaScript’s event loop vs. PHP’s multi-process model
An article comparing JS's event-loop and PHP's multi-process model
Last updated: February 5th 2025
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Node.js boilerplate Typescript, Express, Prisma
On creating a modern Express.js API with Typescript
Last updated: February 6th 2025
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Database Partitioning in PostgreSQL
Instructions on creating partitions in PostgreSQL
Last updated: February 5th 2025
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Installing PostgreSQL on Ubuntu
A detailed guide on how to install PostgreSQL database server on Ubuntu
Last updated: March 6th 2024
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Analyze SQL queries with the Query Planner for PostgreSQL
An article on analyzing SQL queries with the query planner
Last updated: February 5th 2025
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