Category Archives: Panels

How ServerAvatar Works

ServerAvatar is a cloud service for hosting WordPress and other PHP websites on servers at ServerMeister, Linode, Rackspace, or anywhere else. You can think of ServerAvatar as a modern, centralized hosting control panel. ServerAvatar does not provide servers, ServerMeister does. Instead, we make it easy to host PHP sites on your own servers. Those servers […]

How to install Let’s Encrypt on DirectAdmin

Since version 1.5, DirectAdmin has added Let’s Encrypt to their control panel. With Let’s Enrypt you can add SSL Certificates to your website completely free of charge. To set up Let’s Encrypt on DirectAdmin, you must first have version 1.5 installed. # /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin v Version: DirectAdmin v.1.50.0 By default, Let’s Encrypt is disabled within DirectAdmin, […]

What does ServerAvatar install?

ServerAvatar installs various packages on your server. Some of these packages are from Ubuntu’s repositories. Packages provided by us are designed to not conflict with packages from Ubuntu. However, if you install another webserver that runs on port 80, 81, or 443, your website’s may no longer work. Apache 2.4 Apache listens only on localhost […]

Getting Started with ServerAvatar

ServerAvatar is an automated service for managing your WordPress sites and other PHP apps hosted with cloud servers on ServerMeister and other hosting providers. This series will discuss how ServerAvatar manages your server’s web stack along with how to add and remove servers to your ServerAvatar account. Server Requirements What kind of server can be […]