Nyr's Legendary Road Warrior Script: Still the Rock Solid Go-To for Easy VPN!
Nyr's Road Warrior script makes setting up VPNs trivially easy. It's still my go-to!
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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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From Oracle Cloud to TOR to Telegram: Check Out LowEndTalk Tutorials!
Want to setup OpenLiteSpeed on Oracle Cloud arm instances? Need to transfer data between Telegram and your VPS? Want to configure your VPN to exit fast TOR nodes? Check out LowEndTalk's tutorials!
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LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances
And you thought Silk Road was bad.This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.
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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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Have You Checked Out Our Tutorials?
Sure, you come to LowEndBox to get great deals, but did you know you can also learn a thing or two here? We have over 250 tutorials we've published over the years on topics such as Linux VPS administr...
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How to Audit Every Command Run on Your Linux System
Periodically I've had auditors come to me and say "can you tell me what this user on this system did between such-and-such dates/times" and my answer is usually no. By default, Linux systems don't log...
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How to Setup FTP Server with VSFTPD on CentOS 8
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 an affordabl...
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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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Guide to Free Game Server Control Panels
Hosting a game server may not be easy through a terminal, though even experienced cannot handle the game servers through Command Line Interface when hosting a large number of game servers. In this cas...
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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 Setup Replicated Highly Available SQLite with rqlite
If you need a highly available database configuration where the loss of one node doesn't result in loss of service and changes on one node are replicated to other nodes, you would probably reach for M...
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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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How to Find Files in Linux
There's nothing more frustrating than knowing that a file exists on your system but not knowing where it is. It's like losing your car keys or misplacing your phone. Sometimes you'll have contextual c...
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LowEndBoxTV: How to Find That File You Lost in Linux
I was editing it just a minute ago... Ever lose something on a filesystem? It can be tricky to move around directories tryin to find it. In this video, we shown you two ways to quickly find any file o...
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LowEndBoxTV: Create Your Own Self-Hosted Disposable Webmail with Inbucket
Services like Mailinator allow anyone to setup disposable webmail accounts for easy filtering of disposable emails. If you are hesitant to give your email to web sites or organizations because you kno...
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Announcing LowEndBoxTV: The Official LowEndBox/LowEndTalk YouTube Channel!
LowEndBox is pleased to announce the launch of LowEndBoxTV, the official YouTube channel of LowEndBox and LowEndTalk! This channel will feature technical tu...
Read MoreHow to Install ownCloud on a CentOS 8 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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Tuning MySQL 101: The Big Things to Look At
Database tuning is an art, rather than a science. I speak as someone who's worked as a professional DBA for over 15 years and is certified in multiple commercial RDBMS techologies. There is no set of...
Read MoreYour Own Private Videoconference: Running Jitsi Meet on Your VPS
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to setup your own private, encrypted, self-hosted video conferencing solution. You'll be able to hand out a URL (and optionally a password) to people and have them...
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Running Your Own OpenVPN VPN Server
Setting up your own OpenVPN VPN on both server and client is very easy to do. In this tutorial, we'll walk through setting up an OpenVPN server on a VPS you own, and then configuring Windows and macO...
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Puffy vs. Penguin: Getting Started With OpenBSD
In this tutorial, we're going to get up and running with OpenBSD on a KVM VPS. What is OpenBSD OpenBSD is one of the three primary BSD-based operating systems. While FreeBSD focuses on x86 architectur...
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Create Your Own Internet Radio Station With Icecast
In this tutorial we'll show you how to setup your very own Internet radio station using Icecast. Icecast is a flexible, FOSS server that allows you to stream sound and music both to and from the serve...
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How to Install and Use Redis on a Ubuntu 20.04 Server
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 SSH Keys on CentOS 8
Secure Shell, or SSH, is an encrypted protocol that is used for logging on to your remote servers. It is meant to replace the more traditional way of using a password to provide authentication. In thi...
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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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Setting Up and Maintaining a Minecraft Server
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to setup a Minecraft game server on a Debian 10 VPS. But we won't stop at just starting the server but also will cover setting it up in systemd so it automatically...
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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 6
In this tutorial series, we are setting up a highly available Wordpress web site from scratch. Part 1 - Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture Part 2 - Setting Up the VPSes Part 3 - Setting Up...
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