The staff at LowEndBox would like to take a moment to recognize several advertisers who’ve recently come on board:

OnApp: These are the guys behind cloud.net, a soup-to-nuts SaaS cloud platform for providers who want to sell VPS or VMs.  We featured an article on cloud.net, as well as interviews with Steve Fenton (Head of Marketing) and Ditlev Bredahl (CEO).  If you’re on the provider side of the market, be sure to check out cloud.net!

HostSailor: They’ve been a long-time provider in our community, regularly bringing us great deals on both LEB and LET. Whether you’re looking for shared, VPS, or dedicated hosting, HostSailor should be on your short list of hosts to check out when you need hosting.  We’ll be featuring more great offers from them in the months to come!

CrossBox.io – Makers of an all-in-one self-hosted communication suite.   Their product is an email, chat, and file sharing application combined in an all-in-one tool, with advanced features including screen sharing, real-time file sharing, email scheduling, file attachment previewer, and more!  CrossBox easily integrates with cPanel, DirectAdmin, and Plesk, and can also be run standalone.  Check out their demo and read more about this awesome product on their site.

Thank you to all of our advertisers.  We quite literally couldn’t make LowEndBox and LowEndTalk happen without you!

raindog308

Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.

Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.

His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.

You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.