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Mautic 5 Install Tutorial: Ubuntu 22.04, PHP 8.1, MariaDB 11.2

Mautic 5 setup

5 Simple Steps to Install Mautic 5

  1. Install the packages required to run Mautic 5.
  2. Install Mautic 5.0.4
  3. Run the Mautic 5 configuration wizard.
  4. Install the Mautic 5 Cron Jobs.
  5. Enjoy your first Mautic 5 installation!

With a major code refactoring, a new Symfony 6 under the hood and an intensive fat reduction treatment, Mautic 5 is as lean and mean as it gets.

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Upgrade from Mautic 3.x to Mautic 4.4.11

It is not yet time to migrate to Mautic 5 for your production environment, it is still too soon!
Mautic 4 on the other hand is currently very mature. This is the most stable, efficient and secure Mautic version we had in a very long time, especially after the recent release of Mautic 4.4.11, which is the last release in the Mautic 4.x series.
If you haven’t yet updated your Mautic 3 to Mautic 4, now is the time, here’s a guide to do so, how to upgrade to Mautic 4 in 3 simple steps.

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[Solved] Maxmind GeoLite2 & GeoIP Database Auto-Update

If you just installed Mautic in 2020, you might have noticed the Maxmind IP lookup doesn’t seem to work anymore. That’s because Maxmind has changed the method to obtain the latest updated databases from them.
The difference is simple, now you need to provide your credentials, but it completely changes the process to update your IP database.

In this post you’ll find 5 simple steps to fix the Maxmind Geolite2 and GeoIP issue in under 10 minutes, so you can make your Mautic installation compliant with the new process and automate obtaining the Geolite2 database for your Mautic installation.

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Mautic Installation: Mautic Hardware Requirements

The adequate amount of hardware resources you need for your Mautic installation will depend on the Mautic features you’ll be using.
There’s no silver bullet when it comes to Mautic performance, but we will try to provide a guide on how to calculate the requirements for your own, self-hosted, Mautic installation.

Find out how to accurately forecast the Mautic Requirements for your next Mautic installation and prevent Mautic from running slow or completely freezing.

As a Mautic Ops and Systems Architect, I have encountered several perfectly OK Mautic installations that were just terribly slow (to the point of not being usable anymore) but otherwise perfectly OK, what usually happens is that the new server is gauged accordingly to some basic rules, like 1GB of RAM for every 10K users. This way of forecasting your Mautic hardware requirements is too simplistic and will probably lead to either a slow-running Mautic installation or a too big invoice.

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