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Piotr Returns: Is Coolify the "Sweet Spot" Between Heroku/Vercel and a Self-Hosted VPS?

raindog308
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Apr 25, 2025
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Services such as Vercel and Heroku provide an easy on-ramp to hosting your app, but they come at very premium prices. The alternative is to roll your own infrastructure with a self-hosted VPS, but this is starting from scratch and you sacrifice a lot of speed in getting your app to market. Coolify is a nice middle-ground between these two extremes. In this video, Piotr explores how you can leverage this platform to get your application on the web quickly without spending a fortune.

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Have You Missed Any of these LowEndBoxTV Videos?

raindog308
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Dec 07, 2024
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Our video master, Piotr, has been lighting up the metrics on YouTube with some great videos on LowEndBoxTV.  If you're not a subscriber, you're missing out!  Did any of these slip past your stream unclicked?

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Have You Missed Any of these LowEndBoxTV Videos?

LowEndBoxTV: AMD Shootout: Ryzen vs. Epyc - Which is Right For You?

raindog308
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Nov 24, 2024
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Ryzen is fast! Epyc is epic! But is it the best for your server? Piotr sorts out the AMD product lines and provides some benchmarks to help you decide which chip is right for you when you're shopping for a cheap VPS or cheap dedicated server.

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LowEndBoxTV: AMD Shootout: Ryzen vs. Epyc - Which is Right For You?

LowEndBoxTV: Are All Hetzner Locations Alike? No! And Piotr Has the Proof: "This is Clearly Not the Same Processor"

raindog308
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Nov 22, 2024
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For a long time, hosting with Hetzner meant hosting in Germany or Finland.  But recently they've gone global, expanding into the USA and later to Singapore. They claim their systems are the same at each location, but are they...? No! And Piotr has the proof.

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LowEndBoxTV: OpenAI Whisper? No! There Are Better Options

raindog308
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Oct 20, 2024
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Looking for a transcription solution? Sure, you can pay one of the big cloud services but that isn't the LowEnd way! Let's see what Piotr's got for us.

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LowEndBoxTV: OpenAI Whisper? No! There Are Better Options

LowEndBoxTV: Ubuntu 24: Hot Rod Ferrari Speed Freak, Crippled Dump Truck, or Somewhere in Between?

raindog308
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Oct 14, 2024
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How does Ubuntu's new release compare to earlier versions?  They always claim speed improvement, but Piotr's not one to take software companies at their word, so he runs benchmarks.  A lot of benchmarks.

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LowEndBoxTV: Ubuntu 24: Hot Rod Ferrari Speed Freak, Crippled Dump Truck, or Somewhere in Between?

LowEndBoxTV: Free Power Toys for Your Linux Server!

raindog308
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Oct 04, 2024
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Learn how free power toys for your Linux server can make your life easier. In this video, Piotr talks about btop, scrutiny, Hetrix Tools, unattended upgrades, ubuntu pro, yabs, and MyIdlers!

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LowEndBoxTV: Free Power Toys for Your Linux Server!

LowEndBoxTV: Stop Losing Your WordPress Data! Backup Your WordPress Easily for FREE!

raindog308
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Oct 02, 2024
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You know the old saying: there are two kinds of people, those who backup, and those who will backup. Don't be one of the people who finds out the hard way that once data is gone, it's gone forever! Piotr's back to help you out.  In this video, he shows you how easy it is to setup automated, reliable, FREE backups for your WordPress site using Updraft and popular cloud services.

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LowEndBoxTV: Stop Losing Your WordPress Data! Backup Your WordPress Easily for FREE!

LowEndBoxTV: Which Free Hosting Control Panel is the Best? 🤔 AAPanel, CloudPanel, Hestia, and KeyHelp Compared!

Piotr
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Apr 06, 2024
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Don't want to spend big bucks on cPanel or DirectAdmin? But not sure about some of the free hosting panels? This is the video for you! I break down four of the top panels: AAPanel, CloudPanel, Hestia, and KeyHelp.

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LowEndBoxTV: Which Free Hosting Control Panel is the Best? 🤔 AAPanel, CloudPanel, Hestia, and KeyHelp Compared!

LowEndBoxTV: Is a ServerFactory Ryzen VPS Faster Than a Hetzner Dedicated Server? You'll Be Surprised!

Piotr
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Mar 31, 2024
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Is a high-end dedicated server faster than a high-end VPS? It depends but the numbers are a lot closer than you'd think! In this new LowEndBoxTV video, I dig into a comparison between a ServerFactory Ryzen VPS and three different Hetzner dedicated servers.

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LowEndBoxTV: Is a ServerFactory Ryzen VPS Faster Than a Hetzner Dedicated Server? You'll Be Surprised!

LowEndBoxTV: VPS with Free Plesk License for 1€/Month: Strato vs Ionos!

Piotr
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Feb 03, 2024
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Looking for Plesk hosting? How about a VPS with a free Plesk license for 1€/month? Sound good? As always, there are devils in the details.

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LowEndBoxTV: VPS with Free Plesk License for 1€/Month: Strato vs Ionos!

Have You Seen These Five Videos? Thousands Have on LowEndBoxTV!

raindog308
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Jan 28, 2024
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LowEndBoxTV started in 2021, and since that time we've had thousands and thousands of views.  We've tried different things, and then Piotr came on and took our channel to the next level. He mentioned...

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Have You Seen These Five Videos? Thousands Have on LowEndBoxTV!

LowEndBoxTV: Is Windows or Linux Faster on a Hetzner Dedicated Server?

Piotr
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Jan 28, 2024
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Is Windows or Linux faster on a server? The answer is, naturally, "it depends". But what it depends on might surprise you, and the benchmarks will definitely surprise you! 

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LowEndBoxTV: Is Windows or Linux Faster on a Hetzner Dedicated Server?

LowEndBoxTV: Piotr's Video Encoding Course, Part 3: In-Depth on Bit Depth Plus Which Codecs to Choose!

Piotr
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Jan 27, 2024
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In part 3 of my series on video encoding, I'm going in-depth on some fundamental concepts in encoding. Do you want 8 bit depth or 10-bit? What is the best audio codec? Best video? I'll sort it all out for you!

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LowEndBoxTV: Piotr's Video Encoding Course, Part 3: In-Depth on Bit Depth Plus Which Codecs to Choose!

LowEndBoxTV: Thinking About a Hetzner AX41? Consider the EX44 Instead! Nearly AX102 Performance!

raindog308
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Jan 24, 2024
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The Hetzner AX41 looks like an amazing deal. But for just 2 EUR more per month, you can get something that is a bit more interesting! The EX44 features an i5, 14 cores, 65GB of RAM, and dual 512GB NVMe drives and is a lot closer to the AX102 in performance. Piotr conducts a full review!

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LowEndBoxTV: Thinking About a Hetzner AX41? Consider the EX44 Instead! Nearly AX102 Performance!

LowEndBoxTV: Piotr's Video Encoding Course, Part 2: Constant vs. Variable Bitrates, Tools, Tips, and More

Piotr
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Dec 08, 2023
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In Part 1, I explored what the heck a codec is, the difference between H.264, VP8, VP9, H.265, and AV1, compression, and more. Now let's continue and talk about bitrate, video artifacts, constant vs variable bitrates, and helpful tips and tools.

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LowEndBoxTV: Piotr's Video Encoding Course, Part 2: Constant vs. Variable Bitrates, Tools, Tips, and More

LowEndBoxTV: Piotr's Video Encoding Course, Part 1: Everything You Need to Know About Codecs

Piotr
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Dec 05, 2023
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What the heck IS a codec anyway? What's the difference between H.264, VP8, VP9, H.265, and AV1? How do they work? How does compression fit in? And why would you pick one standard over the other? Allow me to demystify!

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LowEndBoxTV: Piotr's Video Encoding Course, Part 1: Everything You Need to Know About Codecs

LowEndBoxTV: How Does the Hetzner AX102 Dedicated Server Stack Up?

Piotr
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Dec 02, 2023
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How does Hetzner's AX102 dedicated server compare to their AX41? Let's go in-depth and see!

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LowEndBoxTV: How Does the Hetzner AX102 Dedicated Server Stack Up?

LowEndBoxTV: The 5-Minute Setup Guide to Windows on Hetzner: How to Make it Work, and How to Secure it

raindog308
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Nov 30, 2023
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Installing Windows on Hetzner servers is not as straightforward as you might think.  The tutorial they publish does not work on their newest dedicated servers. But Piotr has a fixed!

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LowEndBoxTV: The 5-Minute Setup Guide to Windows on Hetzner: How to Make it Work, and How to Secure it

The Five Videos Blowing Up Our Analytics on LowEndBoxTV

raindog308
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Oct 10, 2023
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We've done all kinds of content on LowEndBoxTV: Mini-documentaries, such as the one we did on the HostSolutions Involucration saga Tutorials on topics such as NoMachine and building an HA Wordpress se...

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The Five Videos Blowing Up Our Analytics on LowEndBoxTV

LowEndBoxTV: Which Providers Does Piotr Use? Quite a Few!

raindog308
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Aug 20, 2023
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Piotr uses a LOT of providers. In this video he goes into each and every provider he uses: RackNerd, GreenCloud, HostHatch, Hetzner, Netcup, PHP-Friends, and BuyVM! Get his opinions on the pros and cons of each service and why he chose them.

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LowEndBoxTV: Which Providers Does Piotr Use? Quite a Few!

LowEndBoxTV: The Amazing Phoronix Benchmarking Suite!

raindog308
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Aug 17, 2023
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Piotr has done a LOT of benchmarking. How does he do it? The Phoronix test suite! This amazing free product offers HUNDREDS (thousands?) of benchmarks for different services, applications, and systems. In this video, Piotr walks through all the options and demos the world's most comprehensive benchmarking suite.

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LowEndBoxTV: The Amazing Phoronix Benchmarking Suite!

LowEndBoxTV: How to End VNC/RDP Lag Forever: Use NoMachine! It's FREE!

raindog308
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Aug 16, 2023
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If you've used VNC, perhaps you've encountered the sadness and pain of LAG. Is there any way to fix it? Yes: stop using VNC! Instead, use NoMachine, which is FREE. Piotr walks you through it in this video. He's in Poland using a server in Germany with ZERO LAG - see how you can enjoy similar speedy network performance!

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LowEndBoxTV: How to End VNC/RDP Lag Forever: Use NoMachine! It's FREE!

LowEndBoxTV: Debian 12 "Bookworm" Benchmarks!

raindog308
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Aug 13, 2023
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Piotr benchmarked Linux distros to find which one is fastest. Now that Debian 12 is out, he's updated his comprehensive benchmarks with fresh data. How does "Bookworm" perform compared to previous Debians and other distros? Let's find out!

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LowEndBoxTV: Debian 12

LowEndBoxTV: Piotr Reviews CloudPanel, an Awesome Free Panel!

raindog308
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Aug 12, 2023
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In this LowEndBoxTV video, Piotr reviews CloudPanel, a free hosting panel that includes a ton of features at an unbeatable (literally) price.

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LowEndBoxTV: Piotr Reviews CloudPanel, an Awesome Free Panel!

LowEndBoxTV: Storage VPS Benchmarks!

raindog308
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Jul 30, 2023
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Everyone loves a storage VPS! If you've never run across the term, we're talking about a system that offers lots of disk storage (often in the TB range) with generous bandwidth to serve up backups, media, or anything else. But they're not all alike! In this video, Piotr goes in depth and compares Alwyzon, GreenCloud, LiteServer, ServerFactory, and Hosthatch.

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LowEndBoxTV: Storage VPS Benchmarks!

Have You Checked Out LowEndBoxTV Lately? Wow!

raindog308
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May 24, 2023
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From ARM benchmarks to optimizing a 100TB dedi to checking if your hosting is oversold, LowEndBoxTV is releasing compelling content and is worth your subscription.

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Have You Checked Out LowEndBoxTV Lately? Wow!

Hetzner CAX vs CPX - What's the Deal with ARM?

raindog308
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May 19, 2023
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CAX vs CPX - or in other words ARM vs x86. Which is the best choice for you? Piotr helps you pick as he breaks down the pros and cons of each offering.

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Hetzner CAX vs CPX - What's the Deal with ARM?
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