Limitless Hosting is celebrating their 9th anniversary, and they're doing it with some fantastic deals! Shared hosting starts at only $2/year...reseller at $10/year...and there's lots more.
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In 2025, Midjourney, Leonardo, and general AIs like ChatGPT are the leaders in the art generation space. Which of these in 2025 is the best? Let's run each of these through 10 prompts to try out different generation tasks.
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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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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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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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If you're looking for new ways to reach your audience and don't have the budget for expensive AdWords campaigns or big advertising campaigns where you're competing head on with giant corporations, why not partner with LowEndBox and let us take your brand to the next level.
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Welcome to Fall! Community provider ColoCrossing is hosting a giveaway for our readers. You can win a Synology NAS, Meta Ray-Bans, a Quest VR, and more. Plus they have some really good deals for us! Check out this post to see how you can get some bonus entries.
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In 1981, the coinop arcade video game era was in its golden age. And no game was more advanced than Polybius. But then one night, all the Polybius games disappeared suddenly. What happened?
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Have you heard any good web hosting jokes? I haven't. I tried to find some.
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Naming servers is one of the underrated dark arts of sysadmin life. Don't use something lame like "server1" or some clever encapsulation of prod vs. test and a four-digit number. Spice up your virtual life with a few of our suggestions.
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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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What the heck is BGP and why should you care? Is it relevant to your day-to-day computing? Yes, but it may be a bit more involved than you need.
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Admit it - you bought systems you're not using. We've all done it! You see a good deal and can't resist. Or you have a grand vision for a vast digital empire but it never quite seems to get done (yet!). What do you do with all the spare LowEndBoxes you have lying around? Other than tracking them with MyIdlers, of course. There's a number of things you could consider doing with them to make the world a better place.
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Welcome to Fall! Community provider ColoCrossing is hosting a giveaway for our readers. You can win a Synology NAS, Meta Ray-Bans, a Quest VR, and more. Plus they have some really good deals for us!
Read MoreIn 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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Want to play D&D 5e with an AI GM? That's what AI Realm promises. I give it a spin and find it has some strengths and some weaknesses, and learn a little bit about what makes gaming satisfying for me.
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Like every other subsystem, Linux can't decide on just one filesystem. Which one (ext4, XFS, btrfs) is best for you?
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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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In part one of this tutorial , we discussed quantization a little, then showed you how to setup Ollama and choose an appropriate large language model to run on it. Now we're going to make it a little bit more user-friendly by installing a web UI.
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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.
Read MoreThe 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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Synology has recently implemented some pretty user-hostile policies, which means my long-term love affair with them is going to end in heartbreak.
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Have you ever whitelisted an IP? Maybe you've run a sanity check on server? Perhaps had a service that's hung? Maybe you've had a housekeeping script, or wondered if a particular platform supports something natively? Well, next time you look in the mirror, you've got a low-down, dirty bigot looking back at you, according to the Linux Foundation.
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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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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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Recently I came across a cool app that's self-hostable. Unfortunately, the mobile app can't talk to my backend.
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There’s a certain kind of person who sees a 128MB OpenVZ VPS and says “Yes, this is exactly what I need.” That person might be laughed at in enterprise IT circles, but around here, we call them family.
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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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