<![CDATA[Post4VPS Forum | Free VPS Provider - Web Design & Projects]]> https://post4vps.com/ Wed, 06 May 2026 12:46:58 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[A Minimalist Free Web Hosting Success Story!]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-A-Minimalist-Free-Web-Hosting-Success-Story Sun, 09 May 2021 17:12:52 +0000 deanhills]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-A-Minimalist-Free-Web-Hosting-Success-Story who was successful in installing an above average quality minimalist free hosting service to members of gigarocket.net.  Gigarocket.net stopped providing hosting to its members in December of last year.  So fitkoh came up with his own minimalist solution.  For me it was brilliant in its simplicity.  During the development of his project I had plenty of correspondence from him that I feel needs to be documented here.  Just in case someone else wants to try something similar.  He was basically using three small VPSs from RackNerd (he won these in a competition) with a free dot.design domain.  

Fitkoh invited me during December to be a "guinea pig" and I'm so glad I participated as presently my CyberPanel User Account with him is the fastest and most efficient hosting account I have.  Now that I've created my own CyberPanel installation I understand how expert an Admin Fitkoh must be as every detail in his setup is excellent.  To get all three of the micro VPSs to talk expertly to one another and to increase instead of decrease speed and performance is an art bar none.  Cool

fitkoh Wrote:My goal when I began this project was to create a shared hosting alternative to gigarocket that was comparable in quality, without the significant cost/overhead. To me, the best thing about it is it's 100% free. The domain was from a free porkbun promo. The vps from racknerd giveaway. The software is FOSS. And yet, in spite of the zero cost associated with it, it's remarkably high quality, simple, easy to use. Perfect? Not by a long shot. Will it ever be able to grow to the size of gigarocket? Doubtful. Yet it's doing exactly what I planned for it to do: high quality free shared hosting.

fitkoh Wrote:These aren't high spec vps with multi-core dedicated cpu and tons of disk space, so I was trying to figure out a way to increase the scope of the shared hosting potential without exceeding the boundaries. Seeing that cyberpanel does remote database, I thought that if I split the services, I could potentially double the scope... and WOW I was stunned. The speed that wordpress moved on the backend was really something. Like when loading plugins/themes they just pop right up. I thought that using a remote database was going to make the service slower, due to the latency between the web server and db server. I was very happy to be wrong on this occasion. That was when I looked and saw that both of the vps are on the same node. The ping time between the db and web server is ~.3ms, or .0003 seconds. That's why it's so fast. Usually wordpress hits a bottleneck when loading from the database, but with the db having its own cpu, and not responsible for doing anything else (unless I happen to be logged into webmin), it can really look up and serve those records incredibly fast - faster than the web server can with everything else it's trying to do.

Fitkoh Wrote:The only real ceiling is the size of the server. These are micro vps instances. They're built on solid hardware (Ryzen 9 cpu, NVME disk, ECC DDR4 RAM) but still small. Each vps has only 15gb of disk which is the main limitation to what you can do with it.

The database is tricky. Because it's a remote database, cyberpanel doesn't manage it or warn me when disk is approaching package limits like it will for user files, so it will take careful monitoring to maintain its health.

The service is distributed between 3 vps.

s0 runs OpenLightSpeed WebServer + cyberpanel
s1 runs mariaDB + webmin
s2 (still in development) has OLSWS + cyberpanel with local db, and to be used to run the landing site for the service.
]]> who was successful in installing an above average quality minimalist free hosting service to members of gigarocket.net.  Gigarocket.net stopped providing hosting to its members in December of last year.  So fitkoh came up with his own minimalist solution.  For me it was brilliant in its simplicity.  During the development of his project I had plenty of correspondence from him that I feel needs to be documented here.  Just in case someone else wants to try something similar.  He was basically using three small VPSs from RackNerd (he won these in a competition) with a free dot.design domain.  

Fitkoh invited me during December to be a "guinea pig" and I'm so glad I participated as presently my CyberPanel User Account with him is the fastest and most efficient hosting account I have.  Now that I've created my own CyberPanel installation I understand how expert an Admin Fitkoh must be as every detail in his setup is excellent.  To get all three of the micro VPSs to talk expertly to one another and to increase instead of decrease speed and performance is an art bar none.  Cool

fitkoh Wrote:My goal when I began this project was to create a shared hosting alternative to gigarocket that was comparable in quality, without the significant cost/overhead. To me, the best thing about it is it's 100% free. The domain was from a free porkbun promo. The vps from racknerd giveaway. The software is FOSS. And yet, in spite of the zero cost associated with it, it's remarkably high quality, simple, easy to use. Perfect? Not by a long shot. Will it ever be able to grow to the size of gigarocket? Doubtful. Yet it's doing exactly what I planned for it to do: high quality free shared hosting.

fitkoh Wrote:These aren't high spec vps with multi-core dedicated cpu and tons of disk space, so I was trying to figure out a way to increase the scope of the shared hosting potential without exceeding the boundaries. Seeing that cyberpanel does remote database, I thought that if I split the services, I could potentially double the scope... and WOW I was stunned. The speed that wordpress moved on the backend was really something. Like when loading plugins/themes they just pop right up. I thought that using a remote database was going to make the service slower, due to the latency between the web server and db server. I was very happy to be wrong on this occasion. That was when I looked and saw that both of the vps are on the same node. The ping time between the db and web server is ~.3ms, or .0003 seconds. That's why it's so fast. Usually wordpress hits a bottleneck when loading from the database, but with the db having its own cpu, and not responsible for doing anything else (unless I happen to be logged into webmin), it can really look up and serve those records incredibly fast - faster than the web server can with everything else it's trying to do.

Fitkoh Wrote:The only real ceiling is the size of the server. These are micro vps instances. They're built on solid hardware (Ryzen 9 cpu, NVME disk, ECC DDR4 RAM) but still small. Each vps has only 15gb of disk which is the main limitation to what you can do with it.

The database is tricky. Because it's a remote database, cyberpanel doesn't manage it or warn me when disk is approaching package limits like it will for user files, so it will take careful monitoring to maintain its health.

The service is distributed between 3 vps.

s0 runs OpenLightSpeed WebServer + cyberpanel
s1 runs mariaDB + webmin
s2 (still in development) has OLSWS + cyberpanel with local db, and to be used to run the landing site for the service.
]]> <![CDATA[Freenom DNS works for me!]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Freenom-DNS-works-for-me Fri, 07 May 2021 23:44:41 +0000 deanhills]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Freenom-DNS-works-for-me
Freenom domains these days are not as easy to get as before though. Something to do with how they scrutinize and compare your user details with the info in the application. And it usually happens right at the end of the application process, annoyingly so. But it's still possible to get a domain if you try, try and try again. Just make sure however that you don't use the Freenom free domain for sites that get a lot of traffic, as I've heard bad stories about Freenom making the domain disappear. My Freenom domains are mostly used with low-profile personal blogs. I've lost the odd Freenom domain over the years due to my own fault, as one can only renew the site 2 weeks before the expiry date and not earlier. And I have forgotten from time to time to renew it on time. In most cases however I've been able to get the domain back.]]>
Freenom domains these days are not as easy to get as before though. Something to do with how they scrutinize and compare your user details with the info in the application. And it usually happens right at the end of the application process, annoyingly so. But it's still possible to get a domain if you try, try and try again. Just make sure however that you don't use the Freenom free domain for sites that get a lot of traffic, as I've heard bad stories about Freenom making the domain disappear. My Freenom domains are mostly used with low-profile personal blogs. I've lost the odd Freenom domain over the years due to my own fault, as one can only renew the site 2 weeks before the expiry date and not earlier. And I have forgotten from time to time to renew it on time. In most cases however I've been able to get the domain back.]]> <![CDATA[TBDC iOS App]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-TBDC-iOS-App Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:19:05 +0000 tbelldesignco]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-TBDC-iOS-App
So over the past week I have been working on an app for my business and I finally have it to a point where I can show off the interface mockups. With this project, I really wanted to create a project that showed off my ability with UI/UX design, so I could better market this set of my skillset. This project started off as wireframes and has now progressed to this point of mockups using Adobe XD Prior to moving this project to Xcode to begin taking this from design to SwiftUI.

The goal of this project is integrate the app into my website powered by Wordpress, where using RestAPI, GraphQL and other technologies to integrate posts, user accounts, eCommerce and remote notifications. As this project progresses, I hope to start a fork to integrate TBCMS into this app where when my CMS is completed I can use that system to continue to power and feed data into my app. I would love to hear feedback on this UI design, I tried to use elements from my current web design, so hopefully there is continuity and things translate!

[Image: deeec7i-81d26f25-6676-4bbd-aeeb-33d998cd...wUC-m5vI4M]]]>
So over the past week I have been working on an app for my business and I finally have it to a point where I can show off the interface mockups. With this project, I really wanted to create a project that showed off my ability with UI/UX design, so I could better market this set of my skillset. This project started off as wireframes and has now progressed to this point of mockups using Adobe XD Prior to moving this project to Xcode to begin taking this from design to SwiftUI.

The goal of this project is integrate the app into my website powered by Wordpress, where using RestAPI, GraphQL and other technologies to integrate posts, user accounts, eCommerce and remote notifications. As this project progresses, I hope to start a fork to integrate TBCMS into this app where when my CMS is completed I can use that system to continue to power and feed data into my app. I would love to hear feedback on this UI design, I tried to use elements from my current web design, so hopefully there is continuity and things translate!

[Image: deeec7i-81d26f25-6676-4bbd-aeeb-33d998cd...wUC-m5vI4M]]]> <![CDATA[Look at my portfolio and help me improve it :)]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Look-at-my-portfolio-and-help-me-improve-it Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:35:21 +0000 LightDestory]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Look-at-my-portfolio-and-help-me-improve-it

You can find the latest "production" release available on my website but you can also find the source code on my github.

If you find any bug or strange behavior report me!

Please send me the following information:
  • Screenshot, if it is a graphical bug;
  • Device: Desktop - Laptop - Smartphone - Tablet
  • Device specs: RAM & CPU/GPU information
  • Screen Resolution: Needed to check CSS media query
  • Browser & Browser version: (Example: Chronium-Edge 86)
Regards,
LightDestory]]>

You can find the latest "production" release available on my website but you can also find the source code on my github.

If you find any bug or strange behavior report me!

Please send me the following information:
  • Screenshot, if it is a graphical bug;
  • Device: Desktop - Laptop - Smartphone - Tablet
  • Device specs: RAM & CPU/GPU information
  • Screen Resolution: Needed to check CSS media query
  • Browser & Browser version: (Example: Chronium-Edge 86)
Regards,
LightDestory]]> <![CDATA[TBCMS]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-TBCMS Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:39:12 +0000 tbelldesignco]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-TBCMS TBCMS
Version 1.0 - WIP

About TBCMS
TBCMS is a working title for a content management system I am creating using PHP, HTML and Javascript. This project started April 2020, when I began looking for alternatives to Wordpress and simply was not finding a system that both looked visually appealing, but also offered an intuitive yet powerful content manager when it boiled down to page and post creation. Currently, the project is in a conceptualization stage, as I am fleshing out how the interfaces will look prior getting into the code. This CMS will be open source and free to use and will have a comprehensive knowledgeable for developers and designers a like to create theme and plugins for the platform.

Planned Features
TBCMS will feature a wealth of tools for content managers, developers and designers alike to use while creating top tier websites, themes and plugins. Features will include, but not limited to:
- Support for Forums & eCommerce
- Updater core with auto-update options
- Permalink manger compatible with NGINX and Apache
- SEO & AdSense Managers

I would love to hear your feedback on the interface designs and even what features you would like to see included in the development. This platform is being designed with ease of use at mind and you might have an idea or feature that I've not even thought of that would make the platform that much better. Thanks for all the support and feedback! Tyler

WIP Screenshots
[Image: de6d0r1-367b9ac4-519c-4f33-8831-2f3ac520...knyNL2JfCg]

Credits
Feather - Icons used in interfaces
]]> TBCMS
Version 1.0 - WIP

About TBCMS
TBCMS is a working title for a content management system I am creating using PHP, HTML and Javascript. This project started April 2020, when I began looking for alternatives to Wordpress and simply was not finding a system that both looked visually appealing, but also offered an intuitive yet powerful content manager when it boiled down to page and post creation. Currently, the project is in a conceptualization stage, as I am fleshing out how the interfaces will look prior getting into the code. This CMS will be open source and free to use and will have a comprehensive knowledgeable for developers and designers a like to create theme and plugins for the platform.

Planned Features
TBCMS will feature a wealth of tools for content managers, developers and designers alike to use while creating top tier websites, themes and plugins. Features will include, but not limited to:
- Support for Forums & eCommerce
- Updater core with auto-update options
- Permalink manger compatible with NGINX and Apache
- SEO & AdSense Managers

I would love to hear your feedback on the interface designs and even what features you would like to see included in the development. This platform is being designed with ease of use at mind and you might have an idea or feature that I've not even thought of that would make the platform that much better. Thanks for all the support and feedback! Tyler

WIP Screenshots
[Image: de6d0r1-367b9ac4-519c-4f33-8831-2f3ac520...knyNL2JfCg]

Credits
Feather - Icons used in interfaces
]]> <![CDATA[Thoughts on my Portfolio?]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Thoughts-on-my-Portfolio Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:33:52 +0000 tbelldesignco]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Thoughts-on-my-Portfolio
https://tbelldesign.co]]>
https://tbelldesign.co]]> <![CDATA[Introducing metaDedi - Feedback wanted]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Introducing-metaDedi-Feedback-wanted Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:08:24 +0000 Neoon]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Introducing-metaDedi-Feedback-wanted metaDedi.
metaDedi is a comparison table from multiple providers, updated every 1 or 10 minutes.

So you can find easy a good deal, with a few clicks.
As usual, no tracking or ad’s nor affiliates.

In case you miss a deal, we have Discord & Email notifications available.
If you have any suggestions, or notice any errors, lemme know.

Neoon.]]> metaDedi.
metaDedi is a comparison table from multiple providers, updated every 1 or 10 minutes.

So you can find easy a good deal, with a few clicks.
As usual, no tracking or ad’s nor affiliates.

In case you miss a deal, we have Discord & Email notifications available.
If you have any suggestions, or notice any errors, lemme know.

Neoon.]]> <![CDATA[How to develop Push Notification in PHP?]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-How-to-develop-Push-Notification-in-PHP Sun, 23 Feb 2020 04:03:36 +0000 Littlemaster]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-How-to-develop-Push-Notification-in-PHP Currently I am trying to implement a webpush notification in my website, I have tried some tutorials but without a full success. I tried webpush php but I could not use it correctly. Sometimes I can't unsubscribe the user.
Have you tried it anywhere and do you have a complete sample code of it?]]> Currently I am trying to implement a webpush notification in my website, I have tried some tutorials but without a full success. I tried webpush php but I could not use it correctly. Sometimes I can't unsubscribe the user.
Have you tried it anywhere and do you have a complete sample code of it?]]> <![CDATA[Best self-hosted website builder]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Best-self-hosted-website-builder Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:57:22 +0000 ikk157]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Best-self-hosted-website-builder
First things first, apologies if someone has posted anything related to this before, there are tons of topics making it hard to search it up... especially on mobile. So if such a post already exists, please do let me know.

I have been assigned a project to build and design my own website on anything. It needs to be advanced with several pages, buttons, you name it. And it has to include html, css and JS.

However, I currently don’t have the time to hard-code it from scratch. So I was wondering if there are any site builders that I can self-host on my VPS. All the ones I’ve found are hosted within the builder’s servers.

I’ve tried Wordpress and joomla, but they seem awfully complicated and I honestly don’t think they’re really intended to be used as a site builder. And googling only comes up with the site builders that host the sites on their servers (the ones described above).

And hence I need your generous help as soon as possible!

Thanks in advance.]]>
First things first, apologies if someone has posted anything related to this before, there are tons of topics making it hard to search it up... especially on mobile. So if such a post already exists, please do let me know.

I have been assigned a project to build and design my own website on anything. It needs to be advanced with several pages, buttons, you name it. And it has to include html, css and JS.

However, I currently don’t have the time to hard-code it from scratch. So I was wondering if there are any site builders that I can self-host on my VPS. All the ones I’ve found are hosted within the builder’s servers.

I’ve tried Wordpress and joomla, but they seem awfully complicated and I honestly don’t think they’re really intended to be used as a site builder. And googling only comes up with the site builders that host the sites on their servers (the ones described above).

And hence I need your generous help as soon as possible!

Thanks in advance.]]> <![CDATA[Best Moblie Friendly Forum Script]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Best-Moblie-Friendly-Forum-Script Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:31:43 +0000 xdude]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Best-Moblie-Friendly-Forum-Script
  • bbPress
  • NodeBB
  • VanillaForums
    • bbPress is responsive as it can get and really good. But compared to other forum scripts it has limited base features. Maybe it has enough addons to cover all of this now. I should check about this more. NodeBB is something I haven't heard much about. It's also moblie friendly and looks very neat and simple. Now VanillaForums seems to be the next best thing to myBB as far as I can see. So have you guys used any of these 3 options ? If there are any other good alternatives plz share. But 2 mains factors are moblie friendlness and been a free product.]]>
  • bbPress
  • NodeBB
  • VanillaForums
    • bbPress is responsive as it can get and really good. But compared to other forum scripts it has limited base features. Maybe it has enough addons to cover all of this now. I should check about this more. NodeBB is something I haven't heard much about. It's also moblie friendly and looks very neat and simple. Now VanillaForums seems to be the next best thing to myBB as far as I can see. So have you guys used any of these 3 options ? If there are any other good alternatives plz share. But 2 mains factors are moblie friendlness and been a free product.]]>         <![CDATA[[Need Help] Collapse all replies on thread expect last.]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Need-Help-Collapse-all-replies-on-thread-expect-last Sat, 08 Feb 2020 20:40:39 +0000 arsalahmed786]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Need-Help-Collapse-all-replies-on-thread-expect-last
    I wanna show the first post and and last post on the thread all rest of other posts between first and last are collapsed.
    Example if i created thread.
    - Thread first post
    - reply hidden.
    - reply hidden
    - last reply show.

    Visitor have to click "show replies" which redirect him/her to full thread page. Hope separately show each post on same page without any redirection.

    I want it for forum software called XenForo OR MyBB

    Now just tell me if i need any module/plugin OR any CSS customization. Give me link if you know any similar tutorial.

    And from now on i'm coming back, Will active daily *Fingercrossed*]]>
    I wanna show the first post and and last post on the thread all rest of other posts between first and last are collapsed.
    Example if i created thread.
    - Thread first post
    - reply hidden.
    - reply hidden
    - last reply show.

    Visitor have to click "show replies" which redirect him/her to full thread page. Hope separately show each post on same page without any redirection.

    I want it for forum software called XenForo OR MyBB

    Now just tell me if i need any module/plugin OR any CSS customization. Give me link if you know any similar tutorial.

    And from now on i'm coming back, Will active daily *Fingercrossed*]]>         <![CDATA[WordPress Page Builders]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-WordPress-Page-Builders Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:34:07 +0000 xdude]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-WordPress-Page-Builders So anyone here uses one of these Wordpress page builders ?]]> So anyone here uses one of these Wordpress page builders ?]]> <![CDATA[Checkout my website please and tell me how can i improve it]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Checkout-my-website-please-and-tell-me-how-can-i-improve-it Mon, 21 Oct 2019 06:38:52 +0000 zakilm10]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Checkout-my-website-please-and-tell-me-how-can-i-improve-it
    This is my website http://meditwitt.in/digitwitt-1.0.3/

    Please Do check it out and tell me what i can improve so till then goodbye.]]>
    This is my website http://meditwitt.in/digitwitt-1.0.3/

    Please Do check it out and tell me what i can improve so till then goodbye.]]>         <![CDATA[Do you recommend Static Website Generators - Hugo or Jekyll? Or another one?]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Do-you-recommend-Static-Website-Generators-Hugo-or-Jekyll-Or-another-one Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:14:08 +0000 deanhills]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Do-you-recommend-Static-Website-Generators-Hugo-or-Jekyll-Or-another-one
    In my researches so far I've come across Hugo and Jekyll via YouTube.  As there are some good tutorials for them there.  Which one of the two would be better suited to a Linux VPS?  If you are using a different static website generator that you think is better for creating blog websites, tell us what your experience has been.

    To open the discussion, I've found a YouTube video giving a more entertaining explanation of what static website generators are and what the experience of the user has been:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxxvzkgaiEo]]>
    In my researches so far I've come across Hugo and Jekyll via YouTube.  As there are some good tutorials for them there.  Which one of the two would be better suited to a Linux VPS?  If you are using a different static website generator that you think is better for creating blog websites, tell us what your experience has been.

    To open the discussion, I've found a YouTube video giving a more entertaining explanation of what static website generators are and what the experience of the user has been:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxxvzkgaiEo]]>         <![CDATA[Plugin vs. .htaccess]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Plugin-vs-htaccess Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:58:41 +0000 Sn1F3rt]]> https://post4vps.com/Thread-Plugin-vs-htaccess
    I've made this post out of curiosity to know which method do you all prefer to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS. There are two solutions possible:

    1. Plugins(like Really Simple SSL)
    2. .htaccess file redirect
    Plugins like Really Simple SSL(and there are lots out there...) make it really easy for users to the HTTPS redirect. This is especially suggested for newbies who aren't much-aquainted to programming files themselves. It provides a really simple interface for users to do what they intend in the click of a button. However, This has a flip side too. That is, only the WordPress site gets redirected. Other direct access images or files remain open on HTTP port.

    The next method - the .htaccess file method -  is my personal favorite. This is because it redirects all requests on HTTP to HTTPS. There isn't much to understand. I will be providing the code. Just copy and paste this on top of all contents in your .htaccess file in your WP directory.

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]
    </IfModule>

    And you shall start realizing the magic. Feel free to post your opinion too - I am very eager to hear them Also created a poll so that you can vote for your preferred method. Cheers!

    Regards,]]>
    I've made this post out of curiosity to know which method do you all prefer to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS. There are two solutions possible:

    1. Plugins(like Really Simple SSL)
    2. .htaccess file redirect
    Plugins like Really Simple SSL(and there are lots out there...) make it really easy for users to the HTTPS redirect. This is especially suggested for newbies who aren't much-aquainted to programming files themselves. It provides a really simple interface for users to do what they intend in the click of a button. However, This has a flip side too. That is, only the WordPress site gets redirected. Other direct access images or files remain open on HTTP port.

    The next method - the .htaccess file method -  is my personal favorite. This is because it redirects all requests on HTTP to HTTPS. There isn't much to understand. I will be providing the code. Just copy and paste this on top of all contents in your .htaccess file in your WP directory.

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]
    </IfModule>

    And you shall start realizing the magic. Feel free to post your opinion too - I am very eager to hear them Also created a poll so that you can vote for your preferred method. Cheers!

    Regards,]]>