These three questions may be naive and stemming from my cursory understanding of DNS. Let's say I register mydomain.com at a third party registrar and I point it to the Digital Ocean name servers. Someone finds out ab...

Is there a way to forward an MX record to Gmail without a Google Apps account? Gmail already has everything I need and I want to avoid paying for Google Apps service. I know very little about MX records. This is the ...

I am new to zone business stuff. I have domain.com which resolves to my droplet IP and the website loads. However, when I use www.domain.com prefix, DNS does not resolve. I added CNAME record for www.domain.com which ...

I am currently running Debian 7.6, PHP 5.4.4, Wordpress 4.0 and Nginx 1.2.1. Should I install PHP 5.5 or 5.6? Neither seems to be available in the Debian repositories yet. I don't particularly want to break anything...

If I enable access and error logs in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf: access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; Should I also be keeping logs in server blocks like: server { listen 80; s...

I have enough understanding on Nginx configuration file concepts and syntax. I also get that using multiple configuration files has architectural advantages, i.e. global configuration that never changes can live in it...

I have setup a LEMP stack and intend to consolidate all of my 4-5 sites from other hosting providers to my VPS. All but one use Wordpress and they mostly serve text and a few pictures, no audio, no video. Daily traff...

I played with this for a couple of hours and hit the wall. Wordpress is giving me "Error establishing a database connection." I have a fresh LEMP install with Debian 7. I created a new MySQL user and a new database fo...