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 ====== Start Shared Hosting with cPanel, LiteSpeed, and Digital Ocean ====== ====== Start Shared Hosting with cPanel, LiteSpeed, and Digital Ocean ======
 You can start performance shared hosting with cPanel and LiteSpeed Web Server on Digital Ocean. Here's how. You can start performance shared hosting with cPanel and LiteSpeed Web Server on Digital Ocean. Here's how.
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 ===== Start an Instance ===== ===== Start an Instance =====
  
-Login to your Digital Ocean dashboard, click ''​Create''​ and select ''​Droplets''​+Log in to your Digital Ocean dashboard. Click **Create ​> Droplets**.
  
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-Choose CentOS 7, cPanel also supports CentOS 6.x, but its EOL is November 30, 2020.+Choose ​''​CentOS 7''​. ​cPanel also supports CentOS 6.x, but its EOL is November 30, 2020.
  
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-Choose plan, cPanel requires ​minimal ​1GB RAM on CentOS 7 and 768MB RAM on CentOS 6+Choose ​a plan. cPanel requires ​a minimum of 1GB RAM on CentOS 7 and 768MB RAM on CentOS 6.
  
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-Choose location.+Choose ​a location.
  
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-And then click ''​Create'' ​at bottom of page, an e-mail with root password and IP will arrive ​to your e-mail momentarily. +Click **Create** at the bottom of the page. An e-mail with root password and IP will arrive ​in your e-mail ​inbox momentarily.
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-===== Install cPanel ===== +
-**Remember**:​ A fully qualified domain name must contain two dots, i.e ''​hostname vps.mydomain.com''​. +
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-Run the install command from the console:  +
-  cd /home; curl -o latest -L https://​securedownloads.cpanel.net/​latest;​ sh latest +
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-If installation is successful, you will see a log like this: +
-<​code>​268 ( INFO): cPanel install finished in 17 minutes and 20 seconds! +
-1195 ( INFO): Congratulations! Your installation of cPanel & WHM 11.74 is now complete. The next step is to configure your server.</​code>​ +
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-You can now open your browser and go to ''<​nowiki>​https://​your-server-ip:​2087</​nowiki>''​ to access WHM. +
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-Account/​Password = root/​ssh_password +
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-===== Create a WordPress Site===== +
-Create a user/domain at **Home > Account > Create a New Account** +
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-Use cPAddons Site Software to install WordPress +
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-Log in to the user's cPanel and Click **Install** from **SOFTWARE > Site Software**, and you will see the WordPress site installed in a few seconds. +
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-===== Set up Let's Encrypt (Optional) ===== +
-Run the following command from the console:  +
-  /​scripts/​install_lets_encrypt_autossl_provider +
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-===== Install the LiteSpeed WHM Plugin ===== +
-Run the following command from the console:  +
-  cd /usr/src; curl https://​www.litespeedtech.com/​packages/​cpanel/​lsws_whm_plugin_install.sh | sh +
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-===== Install and Switch to LiteSpeed Web Server ===== +
-You'll want to use LiteSpeed Web Server to increase performance. +
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-==== Install Web Server==== +
-If you search for ''​LiteSpeed'',​ it will pop up from the **Plugins** section. +
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-If you don't have a LiteSpeed license and you want to try it, choose **Request a trial license**. We recommend you enable PHP suEXEC.  +
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-Set up your password for LiteSpeed web admin. +
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-====Switch to LiteSpeed ==== +
-If both servers are running, you may see this message.: +
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-Simply click **Switch to LiteSpeed** to fix it . +
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-====Disable Ruid2==== +
-If ''​mod_ruid2''​ is enabled, a variety of functionality may be disrupted. This is because WHM is creating files that the web server user cannot access. +
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-Access **EasyApache 4 > Customize > Apache Module** and set **mod_ruid2** to ''​Disabled''​. +
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-====Install timzoneDB extension==== +
-To improve PHP performance,​ please click **Resolve Now** to fix it. +
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-===== Enable Cache===== +
-Follow our instructions at [[litespeed_wiki:​cpanel:​whm-plugin-lscwp-management|LiteSpeed Cache For WordPress Management]] to set up caching. If [[https://​wordpress.org/​plugins/​litespeed-cache/​ | LSCache ]] is successfully enabled for WordPress, you will see green on **Cache Status**. +
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-====== Benefits of This Setup ====== +
-So, why would you want to start performance hosting with cPanel and LSWS? +
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-===== High Performance ===== +
-You can accelerate all users' websites. +
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-Simply test using the [[ https://​httpd.apache.org/​docs/​2.4/​programs/​ab.html | AB benchmark tool ]], Like so: +
-  ab -n 100000 -c 100 -k -q -H "​Accept-Encoding:​ gzip,​deflate"​ http://​litespeed.test.com/​ +
-   +
-**Result**: 16,213 Requests/​second +
-<​code>​ +
-Server Software: ​       LiteSpeed +
-Server Hostname: ​       litespeed.test.com +
-Server Port:            80 +
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-Document Path:          / +
-Document Length: ​       20791 bytes +
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-Concurrency Level: ​     100 +
-Time taken for tests: ​  6.168 seconds +
-Complete requests: ​     100000 +
-Failed requests: ​       0 +
-Keep-Alive requests: ​   99100 +
-Total transferred: ​     2115495500 bytes +
-HTML transferred: ​      ​2079100000 bytes +
-Requests per second: ​   16213.20 [#/sec] (mean) +
-Time per request: ​      6.168 [ms] (mean) +
-Time per request: ​      0.062 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) +
-Transfer rate:          334950.64 [Kbytes/​sec] received +
-</​code>​ +
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-Note: Please do benchmark testing with ''​ab''​ command requests from a separate public server. ​  +
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-===== More Accounts on the Same Server ===== +
-Double the maximum capacity of your current Apache servers with LiteSpeed Web Server'​s streamlined event-driven architecture,​ capable of handling thousands of concurrent clients with minimal memory consumption and CPU usage.+
  
-===== More Secure ​===== +===== Set Up cPanel and LiteSpeed ​===== 
-Protect your servers with already familiar ''​mod_security''​ rules, while also taking advantage ​of a host of built-in anti-DDoS features, such as bandwidth and connection throttling.+The rest of these steps are the same for every provider. Please see [[litespeed_wiki:​cpanel:​set-up-shared-hosting|these instructions]] to continue.
  
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