What Happens When You Run a VPS with Zero Swap?
Do you need swap? Maybe. What happens if you don't? You'll meet the OOM Killer. Is that the end of the world? Let's look at the whole virtual memory landscape.
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I Didn't Know It Could Do That! Cool Google Sheets Tricks You Haven't Seen Before
Want to convert percentages to fractions? Add Roman numerals? You'd be surprised some of the things Google Sheets can do!goog
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So How Exactly Do You Learn About Security Issues on Your VPS?
If you're a sysadmin - and if you've got a VPS, you are - how do you learn about new security threats?
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Running a Gopher Server on a VPS: Retro Internet with Modern Tools!
Gopher was all the rage in the early 90s before the World Wide Web took over. Let's take a look at this old school protocol and get a Gopher server running on a modern system.x
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Roll Your Own: How to Setup and Maintain a Minecraft Server on Your VPS
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to setup a Minecraft game server on a Ubuntu VPS. But we won't stop at just starting the server but also will cover setting it up in systemd so it automatically starts/stops with the VPS boot, securing your Minecraft server with whitelisting, maintaining logs, and backing up your Minecraft server so you can roll back to earlier versions.
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A Deep Dive Into Debian 13's /tmp: What's New, And What To Do If You Don't Like It
Debian 13 "Trixie" comes with a whole new world of tmpfs, which is memory-based, and an automated cleanup process. Let's take a look.
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Run Your Own AI LLM Model on a LowEnd VPS for Only $2.49 a Month! Part One: Ollama and the Model
Large Language Models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, and typically they run in massive datacenters operated by tech giants. But here on LowEndBox, we're all about democratizing computing. Is it possible to run your own AI on a cheap VPS? Yes! We'll show you how.
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Tighten Up Your VPS With an SSH Audit! Let's Look at the ssh-audit Package...Does OpenBSD Score Higher Than Debian?
The SSH protocol is surprisingly complex, though the reason why it has to be makes sense once you think about everything it has to do. Using the ssh-audit package, you can audit your SSH server and tighten it up with an easy step-by-step instructions.
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Hackers Love Default Windows RDP Ports: Here’s Why You Should Change Yours, and How to Do It
Should your change your Windows RDP port? In LowEndBox's opinion, yes. Let's discuss why, and how to do it.
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Build Your Own Status Page with Uptime Kuma on a $1 Per Month VPS
If you run websites, services, or APIs, having a public status page is essential. Customers and staff want to know if your services are up, and you need monitoring that can alert you quickly when something goes down. The good news is that you don’t need expensive commercial services like Statuspage or Pingdom. Or Uptime Robot - which is not only no longer free but is jacking up prices 425%. With a $1 VPS and an open-source tool called Uptime Kuma, you can have a professional-looking status page in minutes.
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YOUR DATA IS GONE: How to Protect Your Synology From Being Ransomware'd
It'd be heartbreaking to find your NAS device compromised by ransomware. Here's some ways to prevent that from happening.
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How to Add Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to WordPress in About 2 Minutes
The world is a dangerous place. Take some of the edge off by enabling Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on your WordPress sites in about 60 seconds.
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How Do You Self-Host From Home When Your ISP Gives You a Dynamic IP?
If you have a service running at home, you need to be able to update a DNS record every time your ISP changes your IP. How? We'll look at two ways, including a very simple one-liner you can drop in cron.
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Apple Defeated: The Unbelievably Hard Journey to Totally Silence an iMessages Group Chat - It Can Be Done, But It's Ugly
I have a group chat I really can't drop out of for family political reasons, but I'd like to have it silenced. Completely silenced. Is there a way to do this in iOS? No. In MacOS? Only will extreme determination...
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The Vexing Wordpress "Missed Schedule" Issue - How to Fix It, Permanently
Occasionally, Wordpress will miss a scheduled post, sending it to oblivion. This problem is well known in the WP community, but the causes are still somewhat mysterious. In this tutorial, we dive into possible underlying reasons why it may occur, and more importantly, how to fix it once and for all.
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Let's Give the Newly-Released FreeDOS 1.4 a Spin on macOS With qemu
FreeDOS 1.4 is out. Let's take a look at at installing it. We'll use qemu on macOS so we have 1980s computing inside a 21st century machine.
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Hey raindog308, That TK5 Article Didn't Work on Debian! (Here's the Fix)
A few days ago I posted about the release of TK5, which is the "turnkey" mainframe operating system you can run at home on your Linux or other system. However, I learned that the "turnkey" OS isn't as "turnkey" as people like. Specifically, it doesn't work on Debian 12. Here's the fix!
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Is Your Soul as Dark as a Christmas Stocking's Coal? Make Your Online World Match
Should you use dark mode on your browser? Perhaps. About 20 years ago, I read something (probably in an airplane magazine) about dark screens being better for your eyes. The theory was that using dark mode, you are pumping less light into your eyes which...I guess...is supposed to be better for them? Today I actually decided to Google this, and here's what I found.
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How to Migrate a Linux Server Using Rsync: Linux VPS or Linux Dedicated Server, Migrate Easily
Do you need to move from one provider or one server to another? It's straightforward but there's a lot of loose ends and details. RackNerd has a tutorial to walk you through all the details.
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7 Steps To Save Your WHMCS Users' Personal Info From the Dark Web
WHMCS is your crown jewels, and it's catastrophic if it's ever hacked. How can you keep yourself safe?
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What is "aria-label"? And why you need to use it.
Something we recently added on LowEndBox as part of our web 2.0 SEO improvement project (and accessibility enhancements) is the addition of the aria-label attribute in hypertext links. So, what is WAI-ARIA, also known as ARIA-LABEL?
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One of the Most Useful Sites in the World is Also One of the Simplest: neverssl.com
Have you ever had connecting to a public wifi? It might be because they've got old software that wants you to go to an http connection so they can intercept it. We have a solution.
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BEFORE YOU SHIP: How to Prepare Your Server for Colocation - A Community Checklist
Thinking of colocating a server? Awesome. Here's some quick tips to make sure your experience is a happy one.
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NSD Tutorial Updated for 2024: Now With Zone Transfers!
I'm updating our guide to running an NSD authoritative DNS server to do proper zone transfers, like I showed you in the YouTube video tutorial. We go from scratch to having 2 redundant DNS servers in this howto.
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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 7: Round-Robin DNS, Let’s Encrypt, & Conclusion
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. We're at the final part and now we're going to wrap up with round-robin DNS, Let's Encrypt, and a test of the HA setup.
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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 6: MariaDB Multi-Master
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part six, we're setting up MariaDB multi-master replication using Galera.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 5: Wordpress Install
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 4: Gluster
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.
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