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NSD Tutorial Updated for 2024: Now With Zone Transfers!

I'm updating our guide to running an NSD authoritative DNS server to do proper zone transfers, like I showed you in the YouTube video tutorial. We go from scratch to having 2 redundant DNS servers in this howto.

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NSD Tutorial Updated for 2024: Now With Zone Transfers!

Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 7: Round-Robin DNS, Let’s Encrypt, & Conclusion

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. We're at the final part and now we're going to wrap up with round-robin DNS, Let's Encrypt, and a test of the HA setup.

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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition!  Part 7: Round-Robin DNS, Let’s Encrypt, & Conclusion

Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 6: MariaDB Multi-Master

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part six, we're setting up MariaDB multi-master replication using Galera.

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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition!  Part 6: MariaDB Multi-Master

Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 5: Wordpress Install

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.

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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition!  Part 5: Wordpress Install

Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 4: Gluster

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.

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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition!  Part 4: Gluster

Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 3: Ansible

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part three, we'll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.

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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition!  Part 3: Ansible

Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 2: Ordering the VPSes

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part two, we'll step through provisioning these VMs at Hetzner.

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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition!  Part 2: Ordering the VPSes

Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 1: Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part one, we're covering some background, design considerations, and architecture.

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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition!  Part 1: Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture

PikaPods: Spin Up Tons of Apps for Cheap on This Awesome Service! Let's Do a Deep Dive

One of my favorite services is PikaPods, which allows you to effortlessly spin up nearly 80 apps (and growing) including development, database, monitoring, collaboration, note-taking, and more. Let's dive in!

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PikaPods: Spin Up Tons of Apps for Cheap on This Awesome Service!  Let's Do a Deep Dive

Grasping This One Crucial Concept Made Developing Web Apps So Much Easier!

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a very popular pattern for web application development.  It's used by a who's-who of application frameworks, including Laravel, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Lami...

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Grasping This One Crucial Concept Made Developing Web Apps So Much Easier!

Check Your Vultr Bandwidth Before This Happens! We Make It Easy

Understanding how bandwidth on Vultr is complicated. Let's go over how it works, and then how to avoid overages.

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Check Your Vultr Bandwidth Before This Happens!  We Make It Easy

Irritation Removed: You Do Everything As Root And Hate Manually Removing Sudo From Copy-Paste Commands

You don't use sudo, but you're constantly coming across commands that are prefixed with sudo. Tired of having to first edit them to remove the sudo? We have a one-time solution for you.

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Irritation Removed: You Do Everything As Root And Hate Manually Removing Sudo From Copy-Paste Commands

NOW() vs. SYSDATE() in MySQL/MariaDB: What's the Difference? Watch Out for This Gotcha!

Recently I read a long article about the difference between SYSDATE() and CURRENT_DATE() in Oracle databases.  It reminded me that I once researched the difference between NOW() and SYSDATE() in MySQL.  These functions seem very similar, and for many (most?) uses, you'd be hard-pressed to observe a difference.  But they're not exactly the same.  Here's a quick guide on which to use when.

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NOW() vs. SYSDATE() in MySQL/MariaDB: What's the Difference?  Watch Out for This Gotcha!

ACTION REQUIRED: Prepare Your DMARC Policy for Gmail & Yahoo 2024 Requirements!

Did you know that Gmail and Yahoo are enforcing new sending rules effective February 2024? It’s important for you to adapt and review quickly, to ensure your emails will be able to continue to reach your customers, considering that these email services are commonly used email services by customers to this day.

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ACTION REQUIRED: Prepare Your DMARC Policy for Gmail & Yahoo 2024 Requirements!

Raspberry Pi Photo Frame: The Major Slideshow Options + Thermal Monitoring Script

I've been hacking on my Raspberry Pi this week, and today I'd like to share my experiences with a variety of Linux slideshow programs. We'll also take a look at monitoring the Pi's temperature.

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Raspberry Pi Photo Frame: The Major Slideshow Options + Thermal Monitoring Script

How to Turn Off the HDMI Monitor on Your Raspberry Pi 5. It's Not As Easy as You Might Think

The answer is not tvservice, cec-client, or vcgencmd. Let's explore the fast-changing world of Raspberry Pi display commands.

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How to Turn Off the HDMI Monitor on Your Raspberry Pi 5.  It's Not As Easy as You Might Think

How to Backup Your DirectAdmin Reseller Automatically Even If You Don't Have Shell Access

If you've been following my journey with Directadmin, I signed up for a DirectAdmin reseller account with Silicom Network. They perform backups, but I'd like my own backups. How can I automate them, including MySQL, when I don't have a shell account?

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How to Backup Your DirectAdmin Reseller Automatically Even If You Don't Have Shell Access

Gettings Started with DirectAdmin on Silicom Network, Part 2: Wordpress Installed!

Last time we got signed up with a Silicom Network reseller account. Now let's get SSL configured and setup Wordpress.

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Gettings Started with DirectAdmin on Silicom Network, Part 2: Wordpress Installed!

Gettings Started with DirectAdmin on Silicom Network, Part 1: Signup and Setup

I signed up for one of Silicom Network's lifetime reseller accounts. Let's go through setup and start getting familiar with DirectAdmin.

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Gettings Started with DirectAdmin on Silicom Network, Part 1: Signup and Setup

Running LowEnd on HighEnd: Running FreeDOS on a MacBook M1 (Apple Silicon) with QEMU

Want to run FreeDOS on your Apple Silicon Mac? Took me a bit of research to figure out how to get it going via QEMU. Here's my recipe...so I can find it in a few years when I've forgotten how to do it.

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Running LowEnd on HighEnd: Running FreeDOS on a MacBook M1 (Apple Silicon) with QEMU

How to List Unseeded Torrents on Your PulsedMedia Shared Seedbox

rtorrent's web UI is pleasant to use, but often fails to correctly remove torrents. Over time, this can lead to a build-up of torrents that need to be cleaned out manually. Here's a quick script to help you fix the problem and reclaim wasted space.

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How to List Unseeded Torrents on Your PulsedMedia Shared Seedbox

How To Configure Proxmox To Automatically Backup Your Virtual Machines Remotely (Proxmox Backup Server Tutorial)

Does it really matter if your Proxmox server catches on fire if you have a disaster recovery plan and automatically back it up anyways? Your data is precious. Back it up. Here's how...

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How To Configure Proxmox To Automatically Backup Your Virtual Machines Remotely (Proxmox Backup Server Tutorial)

Of All the Note-Taking Apps, Only One has a Full-Featured Terminal App. And It's Free.

We created a popular video on LowEndBoxTV comparing popular note-taking solutions such as Obsidian, OneNote, etc.  You night choose one or the other based on different features.  But there's one feature you might consider that we didn't cover: can you run it in a terminal?

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Of All the Note-Taking Apps, Only One has a Full-Featured Terminal App.  And It's Free.

How Much CPU Do You Really Need for that Plex Server?

Speccing out a box to use for Plex? Consider how much CPU you need for transcoding...unless you're talking about 4K.

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How Much CPU Do You Really Need for that Plex Server?

Turbo-Charge Your Linux Shell With These Easy Tricks!

Recently I had some folks watching my shared screen and they were constantly saying "oh, that was cool, I didn't know you could do that in the shell". Here's some shell tricks I showed them.

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Turbo-Charge Your Linux Shell With These Easy Tricks!

How to Self-Host Your Own Email for Less Than $3/Mo… and Get Your Emails Delivered!

Self-hosting email doesn't have to end in you purchasing yet another email hosting subscription. There's a better way -- let us show you. Matter of fact, let us show you how to self-host your email for less than $3/mo, in three simple steps.

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How to Self-Host Your Own Email for Less Than $3/Mo… and Get Your Emails Delivered!

How to Update Debian Automatically: No Muss, No Fuss, Not At All Sus

Your Debian system is probably already doing security upgrades automatically. It's trivial to extend that to the entire system so your system is always up to date. We'll show you how.

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How to Update Debian Automatically: No Muss, No Fuss, Not At All Sus

How To Get ChatGPT To Write Your LowEndTalk Offer Thread

ChatGPT is everywhere and is a powerful tool for generating or enhancing your online content. Why not use it to spruce up your LowEndTalk offer post? In other news, I really want to buy a FoxyBoxes VPS.

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How To Get ChatGPT To Write Your LowEndTalk Offer Thread
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