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Command-Line DNS: Using the Porkbun API in Shell Scripts

Did you know you can control your Porkbun-hosted DNS from a shell script? Here's an example of using the Porkbun API with curl to create a DNS record, and links to more things you can do with their full-featured and oddly satisfying API.

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Command-Line DNS: Using the Porkbun API in Shell Scripts

Trusted Romanian Provider Hazi.ro Special Deal: €1.99/Month in Romania or Germany?

Looking for service in Romania or Germany? Hazi.ro has a nice offer in Bacau and Limburg for your consideration! Read on to learn how this community provider is bringing deals to kick off our Monday!

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Trusted Romanian Provider Hazi.ro Special Deal: €1.99/Month in Romania or Germany?

Need an Asia/Pakistan VPS? Check out Virtury's "Amazing For This Region!" Reviews and Deals!

Virtury runs their own tier 2 datacenter in Pakistan. Their VPSes are getting excellent reviews from our members!

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Need an Asia/Pakistan VPS?  Check out Virtury's

raindog308's Civilization VI Big Bucks Strategy Guide

A 30-year veteran of Sid Meier's Civilization series shares his current strategy for the game's latest iteration (Civilization VI). It's all about the Benjamins...er, gold coins, baby.

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raindog308's Civilization VI Big Bucks Strategy Guide

Need a Truly Exceptional Seedbox or a Transcoding Server? Check Out Pulsed Media!

PulsedMedia has an a range of i5- and i7-based dedi systems starting as cheap as 29.99€/Month in Helsinki, Finland. Here's my personal experience with PM and links to the deals!

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Need a Truly Exceptional Seedbox or a Transcoding Server?  Check Out Pulsed Media!

Was I Serious? How to Install GnuCOBOL on Debian 11

Recently someone on LowEndTalk mentioned asmbb, which is forum software written in assembler. Full stop. Written in assembler.  Forum software. Go look - it's actually pretty nice. I joked that I was...

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Was I Serious?  How to Install GnuCOBOL on Debian 11

Signal Transmitter: 2GB RAM VPS in Frankfurt, Germany for Only 35€/YEAR!

Signal Transmitter has a spring special. You can get a cheap 2GB RAM VPS in Frankfurt for only 35€ per year!

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Signal Transmitter: 2GB RAM VPS in Frankfurt, Germany for Only 35€/YEAR!

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch: Two Years Later, It Still Works!

We did a six-part tutorial on setting up a highly available Wordpress site using two VPS systems, configuring MariaDB and replication, using DRBD and OCFS2 for filesystem replication, and tying it all off with round-robin DNS. It still works!

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch: Two Years Later, It Still Works!

What's Wrong with Google? According to an Insider, These Four Things

According to an insider's recent essay, Google suffers from "(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, and (4) mismanagement."

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What's Wrong with Google?  According to an Insider, These Four Things

Command Line Life: Weather at Your Fingertips

Who needs an app or a smart watch or even a thermometer when you've got command-line tools to give you full details about the weather in any major city of the world!

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Command Line Life: Weather at Your Fingertips

Two Weeks After Killing the Linode Brand, Akamai Jacks Up Prices 20% and Doubles IP Fees

You read that right: a steep increase across the board for ex-Linode customers. Where are you moving to?

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Two Weeks After Killing the Linode Brand, Akamai Jacks Up Prices 20% and Doubles IP Fees

POLL: Which PHP Frameworks Are You Using in 2023?

It's 2023 and by some measures, 77% of all web sites are powered by PHP.  I'm not sure it's quite that high, though if you think about every Wordpress site, maybe... I've been coding a small-volume AP...

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POLL: Which PHP Frameworks Are You Using in 2023?

Stop the Senseless Flushing!

After you create users and grant privileges in MySQL, the next step is to FLUSH PRIVILEGES, right? Wrong.

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Stop the Senseless Flushing!

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

We ran across an interesting class from MIT entitled "The Missing Semester of Your CS Eduction."  Here is how it's described: Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating syst...

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Is Telegram Safe? No.

Is Telegram safe for users looking for private, encrypted communications? Developments since 2018 raise a lot of questions.

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Is Telegram Safe?  No.

LowEndBoxTV: Which Distro is Fastest?

Using popular benchmarks (PHPBench, Redis, ZSTD, Geekbench, VP9 Encode, WebP, OpenSSL, etc.) Piotr compares Debian, Ubuntu, and various RHEL-universe distros to see how they perform on typical LowEnd VPSes. Lots of data and interesting conclusions!

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LowEndBoxTV: Which Distro is Fastest?

KVM and OpenVZ 7 Cheap Yearly VPS Offers in Los Angeles (USA), Roubaix (France), and Quebec (Canada) - HostNamaste.com

It's been two months since we've featured community provider HostNamaste. They're back with a full spread of cheap KVM and cheap OpenVZ systems in the USA, France, and Canada. All come with IPv4 and generous bandwidth - check these out!

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KVM and OpenVZ 7 Cheap Yearly VPS Offers in Los Angeles (USA), Roubaix (France), and Quebec (Canada) - HostNamaste.com

Microsoft Injecting Ads on Google.com Pages Disparaging Chrome

If you're using Microsoft Edge, you can't trust what it's showing you because Microsoft is injecting ads into competitor sites, suggesting that you can't trust other browsers and companies.

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Microsoft Injecting Ads on Google.com Pages Disparaging Chrome

Four Ways to Get Unlimited Cloud Storage for Free

Are we talking about a special Google Drive promo, or a secret Apple iCloud account deal?  Did Western Digital Black just get replaced with Western Digital Rainbow?  Are we talking a Microsoft O365 promo code, a pCloud special, a little-known MediaFire offer, or something Kim Dotcom is doing with a Mega.nz promo code? Maybe.

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Four Ways to Get Unlimited Cloud Storage for Free

ByteHosting is Back with Cheap High-RAM VPS Systems: 4GB for Only €3.99/Month in Frankfurt, Germany!

If you need a cheap VPS with gargantuan amounts of RAM, ByteHosting is your provider. Check out these excellent offers in Frankfurt, starting at €3.99/month for a 4GB system!

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ByteHosting is Back with Cheap High-RAM VPS Systems: 4GB for Only €3.99/Month in Frankfurt, Germany!

Rhino Technology: Deeply Discounted Supermicro Servers for Sale!

Need some gear? Rhino Tech Group posted an offer featuring some deeply discounted Supermicro servers that they'll ship to you for FREE (terms, conditions, etc.) Be sure to check this out if you are looking for kit.

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Rhino Technology: Deeply Discounted Supermicro Servers for Sale!

V.PS: Cheap KVM VPS Systems in Amsterdam From €9.95/YEAR!

If you need a KVM in Amsterdam, V.PS has you covered. Whether it's a general-purpose VPS or a storage VPS, these are great deals in the Netherlands.

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V.PS: Cheap KVM VPS Systems in Amsterdam From €9.95/YEAR!

PacketVM Launches VPS Resource Packs - 3 IPs, 3GB RAM, $4/month! Wow!

Would you like to get a slice of resources you can carve up any way you want? What if you could get started for only $4/month and that included 3 IPs? Very interesting offer on tap here!

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PacketVM Launches VPS Resource Packs - 3 IPs, 3GB RAM, $4/month!  Wow!

Which Apps Do You Self-Host?

It's the age of SaaS but here in the LowEnd community people are more DIY. Here are a couple links where people are talking about what they're self-hosting.

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Which Apps Do You Self-Host?

The LuxVPS Storage Servers Offer is Here! Starting at €5.95/mo in Frankfurt, Germany

LuxVPS has been been feeding us very competitive offers for while now and they're back with cheap storage systems.  Check this out: Dual drive 25GB/500GB, 4GB RAM, ipv4 + ipv6, DDoS Protection, backed...

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The LuxVPS Storage Servers Offer is Here!  Starting at €5.95/mo in Frankfurt, Germany

Hostiger: Cheap VPS in Istanbul, Turkey Starting From $15/YEAR!

Welcome back, Hostiger!  We haven't had them on in a while and they're back with more ferociously good offers for our community! These deals speak for themselves: 1GB for $15/YEAR! 2GB for $25/YEAR! T...

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Hostiger: Cheap VPS in Istanbul, Turkey Starting From $15/YEAR!

EasyVM: New Brand, New Cheap VPS Deals in Dallas, Tampa, New York, and Las Vegas!

In case you missed the news, Central.so has changed its name to EasyVM!  @aqua announced the news a couple weeks ago.  Here's an excerpt from his post on LinkedIn: If you were to tell me a little unde...

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EasyVM: New Brand, New Cheap VPS Deals in Dallas, Tampa, New York, and Las Vegas!

Setup Odoo? Swap out Slack? Create Plugins for Python? Dynamic DNS? We've Got the 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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Setup Odoo? Swap out Slack? Create Plugins for Python? Dynamic DNS? We've Got the Tutorials!
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