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Drop Dead Simple: One-Clause Handling of NGINX + Certbot + HTTP Basic Auth!

This is a quick tutorial on setting up NGINX with Certbot when you're using HTTP Basic Authentication. HBA is what you see if you set parameters like this in a location:        auth_basic  "some arbitrary name";        auth_basic_user_file  /etc/nginx/path/to/my/password/file; If you do this, you'll see a prompt like this if you visit the site: You can use httpasswd (an Apache tool - it's in apache2-tools on Debian) to cr...

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Drop Dead Simple: One-Clause Handling of NGINX + Certbot + HTTP Basic Auth!

What's the Fastest Wordpress Stack? Find Out on LowEndTalk!

Stop me if you've heard this on before. You started a web site and were thrilled when you started to get substantial traffic.  At first, your cPanel hosting could keep up but eventually either you or...

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What's the Fastest Wordpress Stack?  Find Out on LowEndTalk!

What Can You Do With A Minimal-Resource Cheap VPS?

A question is often posed asking why providers offer plans with minimal resources. This references VPS plans with 128MB, 256MB, and similar RAM allocations. RAM is the primary concern because of CPU a...

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What Can You Do With A Minimal-Resource Cheap VPS?

Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

A ramdisk - or if you prefer, RAMdisk - is a method of taking a section of memory and treating it as disk.  If you think about it for a moment, the pros/cons should be obvious: RAM is much faster than...

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Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

How to install PHP 7.4 with Nginx and Apache on Ubuntu

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 PHP 7.4 with Nginx and Apache on Ubuntu

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 Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 20.04

This article was contributed by the folks at RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. If you are looking for a VPS with f...

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How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 20.04

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?!?

How to Install NGINX on a Debian 10 VPS

This article was contributed by the folks at RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. If you are looking for a VPS with f...

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How to Install NGINX on a Debian 10 VPS

Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. A web server is an integra...

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Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

How to Configure Reverse Proxy with NGINX

NGINX is a light-weight web server first released in 2004 which can also be used as a reverse proxy. We have made many tutorials over NGINX at LowEndBox, and recently setup a Node.js Application, it a...

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How to Configure Reverse Proxy with NGINX

Free SSL with NGINX and LetsEncrypt on Debian 10

Let's Encrypt is a free https certificate you can install on your cheap VPS for free, browser-validated https.  In this tutorial, we'll walk through setting up Let's Encrypt https on an nginx host run...

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Free SSL with NGINX and LetsEncrypt on Debian 10

How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a Debian 9 VPS

In this tutorial, we will create a simple Node.js application and put it into a production ready environment on Debian 9, "Stretch". To make the app accessible from your browser, we'll use Nginx as a...

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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a Debian 9 VPS

LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack, which includes A...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and in...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox, running Debian 9. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

How to Replace Apache with NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04

NGINX is the modern web server founded by computer software engineer Igor Sysoev in the year 2004. NGINX is used by the most busiest and high traffic website. NGINX works out of box with the most majo...

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How to Replace Apache with NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04

How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a CentOS 7 VPS

In this tutorial, we will create a simple Node.js application and put it into a production ready environment. We are going to install and use the following pieces of software: Nginx as a reverse proxy...

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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a CentOS 7 VPS

Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Magento is one of the worlds leading e-commerce CMS solutions and is used by over 200K websites. What makes Magento such an appealing e-commerce CMS is that Magento offers a free, community edition of...

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Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on CentOS 7.6

Introduction Magento is one of the worlds leading e-commerce CMS solutions and is used by over 200K websites. What makes Magento such an appealing e-commerce CMS is that Magento offers a free, communi...

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Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on CentOS 7.6

Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on Debian Stretch

Magento is one of the worlds leading e-commerce CMS solutions and is used by over 200K websites. What makes Magento such an appealing e-commerce CMS is that Magento offers a free, community edition of...

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Migrating a Magento Installation from Apache2 to NGINX on Debian Stretch

Running Trac + Git Hosting on a Low End VPS

Any user of Version Control System? When I started as a programmer back in the 90's it was RCS. Then moved to CVS when I joined my first start up. About 5 years ago I moved everything -- work projects...

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Running Trac + Git Hosting on a Low End VPS

Getting Rid of A in LAMP for Your Low End VPS

Got your dirt cheap VPS with only 64MB guaranteed memory on OpenVZ? Want to move your WordPress blog from some insanely oversold shared hosting to your shining low end box? If you follow the "traditio...

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Getting Rid of A in LAMP for Your Low End VPS

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