In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PowerDNS and Poweradmin on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP-FPM. PowerDNS is an open source, high-performance and reliable DNS server, written in C++ and can be used as an alternative to BIND. Poweradmin is a free, web-based administration tool for PowerDNS written in PHP. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.