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CloudLinux Announces Support for CentOS 8 Through 2025

When IBM announced that they were changing CentOS and introducing "CentOS Stream," one minor detail was a sharply curtailed lifespan for CentOS 8, the final "Classic" version.  IBM has announced that support for CentOS 8 support will end on December 31, 2021. For those still running CentOS 8, the options to date have been to either gamble on CentOS Stream (which is now IBM's development playground rather than a RHEL clone...

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CloudLinux Announces Support for CentOS 8 Through 2025

Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

Training powerhouse Udemy frequently releases free courses for limited time periods. Obviously, their hope is that you'll try out their instruction, like what you see, and then purchase additional cou...

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Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

Painless MariaDB Replication with Galera Clusters

Galera is MariaDB's multi-master replication technology which makes it a snap to setup highly-available multi-node MariaDB clusters.  In this tutorial we'll walk through setting up a cluster and also...

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Painless MariaDB Replication with Galera Clusters

Hostigger is Now Hostiger and Has Ferociously Cheap VPS Offers for You! (Kansas City or Istanbul)

Hostigger is now Hostiger and they're bringing some awesome offers: Get a 2GB KVM with 40GB of disk and 2TB of traffic for only $4.99/month! Take 30% off if you buy annually! Larger sizes available to...

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Hostigger is Now Hostiger and Has Ferociously Cheap VPS Offers for You! (Kansas City or Istanbul)

CloudServer Brings Us 2GBLinux KVMs for Only $1.99/Month (on Annual) or Windows KVMs for $3/Month!

We last saw CloudServer back on July 4, 2021.  Now they're back with some more very cool offers for cheap VPS systems - either Linux or Windows: Get a 2GB Linux KVM for only $4/mo (or $1.99/mo on an a...

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CloudServer Brings Us 2GBLinux KVMs for Only $1.99/Month (on Annual) or Windows KVMs for $3/Month!

Debian 11 "Bullseye" Released Today!

Debian 11, code-named Bullseye, was released today.  If it's not already available on your favorite VM provider's panel, I suggest you own a thread on LowEndTalk and complain bitterly. Major new featu...

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Debian 11

iKoula Offers Hosted Synology NAS Servers

Have you used a Synology NAS at home? Do you want one in the cloud? For those unfamiliar, Synology makes a line of inexpensive NAS systems aimed at both the home and small business markets.  They have...

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iKoula Offers Hosted Synology NAS Servers

Get Notified via Email Whenever Someone Logs In To Your VPS

In this tutorial we'll show you how to configure your VPS so that every time someone logs in, you receive an email alerting you to this fact. This is kind of a "lowend intrusion detection system" thou...

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Get Notified via Email Whenever Someone Logs In To Your VPS

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

Hello, Boomer.Host! Some hosts are deadly serious when it comes to their names and some prefer a bit of humor and I don't have to tell you which category Boomer.Host falls into.  However the proprieto...

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Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order!  $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

How to Stiff-Arm Brutes and Protect Your Server with Fail2Ban

Bruce force attacks are attempts to guess common passwords by repeatedly trying to login to your server.  SSH is the most common target but FTP, IMAP, POP3, and other password-based systems can be tar...

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How to Stiff-Arm Brutes and Protect Your Server with Fail2Ban

Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

Tarsnap is a cloud backup company that emphasize strong cryptography. It's the brainchild of Dr. Colin Percival, former FreeBSD security officer. Its motto is "online backups for the truly paranoid" a...

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Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

Celebrate Black Friday in July with LosAngelesVPS's 50% Off Sale!

LosAngelesVPS is back!  We last had them on back on February 26, 2021.  This time they've got some great VPS offers with their Black Friday in July offer! Get  a 1GB VPS with unmetered bandwidth and 1...

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Celebrate Black Friday in July with LosAngelesVPS's 50% Off Sale!

One Folder to Rule Them All: Running Dropbox Headless on Your VPS

Dropbox is a folder synchronization product that takes a folder (eponymously called Dropbox) and makes sure it's identical across all devices.  This folder is also available on the web and there are r...

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One Folder to Rule Them All: Running Dropbox Headless on Your VPS

AMD Epyc OpenVZ 7 VPS in Strasbourg, France, Europe and Quebec, Canada Starting from $12/year - HostNamaste

HostNamaste is back! We last had an offer for them on April 30, 2021.  They've been around these parts for a long time and have always brought great offers for our readers. Case in point: Get a VPS fo...

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AMD Epyc OpenVZ 7 VPS in Strasbourg, France, Europe and Quebec, Canada Starting from $12/year - HostNamaste

How to use CPULimit on CentOS 7

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to use CPULimit on CentOS 7

🎇 Celebrate Fourth of July with Some CloudServer Deal Fireworks! (2GB VPS for $2/mo!)🎆

Happy Fourth of July!  LowEndBox is happy to celebrate American Independence Day with a fantastic offer from CloudServer.  How fantastic? Get a 2GB Linux KVM for only $12/quarter...plus you get $12 in...

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🎇 Celebrate Fourth of July with Some CloudServer Deal Fireworks! (2GB VPS for $2/mo!)🎆

How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

How to Install Nagios on a Ubuntu 20.04 VPS

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to Install Nagios on a Ubuntu 20.04 VPS

How to Use the Chattr Command in Linux

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to Use the Chattr Command in Linux

LowEndBoxTV: Setup Wordpress in Only 3 Commands!

Installing Wordpress usually involves installing and configuring a web server, installing and configuring a database server, creating the database, granting permissions, downloading and installing Wor...

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LowEndBoxTV: Setup Wordpress in Only 3 Commands!

LowEndBoxTV: Getting Started with Linode StackScripts

In this video, we show you how to use StackScripts on Linode to quickly setup your VPS at deployment time. You can use StackScripts to configure the system, install software, enable services, etc. You...

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LowEndBoxTV: Getting Started with Linode StackScripts

Optimism, Dedication, Persistence, and Leadership: The Hosting Industry According to Khalid Cook, Director of HostSailor

Our interview series has featured some of the true titans of the hosting industry. In this installment, we sit down with Khalid Cook, director of HostSailor.  HostSailor has been a regular here on LEB...

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Optimism, Dedication, Persistence, and Leadership: The Hosting Industry According to Khalid Cook, Director of HostSailor

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 6: Does It Work?!?

In this series, we take you from bare-metal to a highly-available Wordpress site, load-balanced over two nodes and resistant to VPS failures using MariaDB multi-master replication, DRBD, and round-rob...

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LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 6: Does It Work?!?

LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 22, 2021

This week we had a great interview with Paul Phillips of Blesta, talked about hard times at HostSolutions, and published a number of great tutorials on Wordpress, inotify, and Linux filesystem permiss...

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LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 22, 2021

Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 5: Configuring OCFS2 Oracle Cluster Filesystem

In this series, we take you from bare-metal to a highly-available Wordpress site, load-balanced over two nodes and resistant to VPS failures using MariaDB multi-master replication, DRBD, and round-rob...

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Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 5: Configuring OCFS2 Oracle Cluster Filesystem

Instant Reactions to Filesystem Events with inotify

The ability to run programs automatically is one of the great liberating powers of computers. In Unix, it's common for users to schedule jobs using cron or at (or with systemd, timers). But what if yo...

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Instant Reactions to Filesystem Events with inotify

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 4: Configuring DRBD

In this series, we take you from bare-metal to a highly-available Wordpress site, load-balanced over two nodes and resistant to VPS failures using MariaDB multi-master replication, DRBD, and round-rob...

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LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 4: Configuring DRBD

Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

Since very early in its history, Unix systems have supported file and directory permissions. This security mechanism allow users to make their files private from other users, and for administrators to...

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Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux
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