In August 2020, @dedipromo posted a neat script on LowEndTalk that he'd developed. The script sets up Guacamole, Nginx, the xfce4 desktop GUI, Firefox, VNC, and Let's Encrypt. After running it, you can point your web browser at your VPS and access a normal Linux desktop without having to use a VNC or other remote desktop client. Neat! In this tutorial, we'll walk through using @dedipromo's script and show you how it wo...
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Your Linux VPS lives in a hostile, dangerous world: the Internet. Left unsecured, your system is vulnerable to compromise, which can result in lost data, incurred charges, and general unpleasantness....
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SoftShellWeb recently posted on LowEndTalk and I asked them if they'd like to expand their audience to the LEB readership as well, and here we are. They're a new player (2019) based in the UK, offeri...
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If you're a provider and this is your first time visiting LowEndBox or you've thought about but never quite submitted an offer, you may wonder what the advantages are. There are many. Free Advertisin...
Read MoreLowEndTalk member @jsg has been on LET for a little more than two years. In that time he's gained a lot of respect in the community for the depth of his technical understanding on many fronts. From...
Read MoreTOR (The Onion Router) is FOSS software to allow onion routing. It is designed to defeat traffic analysis. In this tutorial, we'll talk about the three kinds of routers you can run to contribute to th...
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Does this sound familiar: you want to look at the content on some web site, but it requires you to sign up with your email address. You know that if you do, you'll be spammed continuously until you g...
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From the World's Longest fsck to sharing picture of his wedding to sisters jokes to ever-amazing deals and specials, @cociu's HostSolutions.ro has been a long-running fixture on LowEndTalk. It'd be a...
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A firewall is a security tool that blocks network traffic, with many different configuration options. For example, you could configure your firewall to block all traffic except attempts to connect to...
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Today we're continuing our LowEndBox Interview Q&A Series by sitting down with Jon Biloh, the owner of LowEndBox and LowEndTalk. In this interview, he responds to questions submitted by the LowEnd...
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scp, sftp, and other protocols are useful for one-time file transfers, but what if you want to have a permanent connection that allows you to treat a remote filesystem as local? You could look at nfs,...
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In this interview, we connect with the legendary @Nekki, whose account dates from August 2011. As of this writing he has over 18,700 comments, and an even more impressive 20,000+ thanks. From his bre...
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A cardinal rule of security is to avoid running services you don't need. A logical extension of that rule is to not expose ports to the public Internet unnecessarily. You may have a very good reason...
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Today we're talking to Andrew, also known as @Raindog308 on Low End Talk. Andrew is a long time member of our community and moderator as well. A big thanks to @Raindog308 for taking the time to answer...
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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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