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Create Your Own Self-Hosting Mailinator With inbucket

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 go through the chore of unsubscribing.  You're tempted to make up a random email address, but you figure you'll have to confirm the email by clicking on a link mailed to you. Mailinator solves this problem by providing the Int...

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Create Your Own Self-Hosting Mailinator With inbucket

How to Disable IPv6 on Ubuntu

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd. If you are considering a VPS hosting solution, take a look at RackNerd. RackNerd is an established brand, reputable reputation, and is a...

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How to Disable IPv6 on Ubuntu

Protect Your VPS With an Electronic Pitbull: Active Firewalls

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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Protect Your VPS With an Electronic Pitbull: Active Firewalls

CentOS 6 End of Life is Coming! Upgrade to a new CentOS 7 VPS Now

This article was contributed by the folks at RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more.  CentOS 6 will reach End of Life on...

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CentOS 6 End of Life is Coming! Upgrade to a new CentOS 7 VPS Now

Easy File Sharing With sshfs

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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Easy File Sharing With sshfs

Why (And When) To Use A VPS Instead of Shared Hosting

Have you ever wondered what the difference between a VPS and Shared Hosting account is? This article was contributed by RackNerd, a provider of shared hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, C...

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Why (And When) To Use A VPS Instead of Shared Hosting

How to Enable Google’s TCP BBR on a Linux VPS

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - LowEndBox appreciates your contribution as always! Be sure to check out RackNerd’s latest LowEndBox specials if you are looking for a K...

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How to Enable Google’s TCP BBR on a Linux VPS

What is a Hybrid Server? Hybrid Dedicated Servers Explained

Throughout the past year, you may have noticed more Hybrid Server offerings being featured here on LowEndBox. While this is a relatively new offering so to speak, the LowEndBox staff are working to ge...

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What is a Hybrid Server? Hybrid Dedicated Servers Explained

Best Web Hosting Control Panels after the cPanel Price Hike

Web Hosting Control Panels play a very important role in shared hosting as it provides easy management of web hosting, databases, DNS configuration and mail box. One of the most common control panel,...

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Best Web Hosting Control Panels after the cPanel Price Hike

What is Bandwidth? Bandwidth vs. Transfer Explained

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd. If you are looking for a VPS or web hosting service - be sure to check out RackNerd! For those who are new to the LowEndBox website comm...

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What is Bandwidth? Bandwidth vs. Transfer Explained

KVM VPS – What To Look For in a KVM VPS Provider

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned and knowledgeable contributor of the hosting industry for 12+ years. Whether you are looking for shared hosting, reseller h...

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KVM VPS – What To Look For in a KVM VPS Provider

Frequently Asked Questions: Los Angeles VPS

We know that many shoppers who visit LowEndBox to find a cheap VPS, cheap dedicated server or something else prefer that it be hosted in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles datacenter market is o...

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Frequently Asked Questions: Los Angeles VPS

Improved Server Security By Closing Ports With nmap Monitoring

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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Improved Server Security By Closing Ports With nmap Monitoring

How to Set Up Plex Media Server on Your Cheap VPS

With a huge portion of the world's population told to stay home, many people are looking for ways to fill the time. Setting up a home media server might be a great idea and help keep you and your love...

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How to Set Up Plex Media Server on Your Cheap VPS

Free SSL with NGINX and LetsEncrypt on Debian 10

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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Free SSL with NGINX and LetsEncrypt on Debian 10

cPanel Reseller Hosting – What’s new? The before and after!

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned and knowledgeable contributor of the hosting industry for 12+ years.  What is Reseller Hosting? Reseller Hosting is a form...

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cPanel Reseller Hosting – What’s new? The before and after!

Upcoming VPS Review Series

April was a busy month for Low End Box, as we rolled out plenty of new initiatives: Tutorials are back! We'll be posting one or two each month Each month we'll be asking our users important questions...

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Upcoming VPS Review Series

What is a KVM VPS? The advantages and technology explained

What is KVM VPS? KVM VPS is an acronym for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. It is a full virtualization solution and has become commonly adopted by hosting providers throughout the majority of the last d...

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What is a KVM VPS? The advantages and technology explained

How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Debian 8, 9, and 10

In this tutorial, we will start with an empty VPS with a freshly installed Debian 9 and will end up with three different sites sharing the same IP address, hosted on the same machine. Apache web serve...

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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Debian 8, 9, and 10

How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

The Apache is a web server developed by Apache Foundation in 1995. Apache is the one of the most widely used and robust web server. Apache web server requires a valid SSL certificate to enable web sec...

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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a Debian 9 VPS

In this tutorial, we will create a simple Node.js application and put it into a production ready environment on Debian 9, "Stretch". To make the app accessible from your browser, we'll use Nginx as a...

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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a Debian 9 VPS

How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will start with an empty VPS with a freshly installed CentOS 7 and will end up with three different sites sharing the same IP address, hosted on the same machine. Apache web serve...

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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on CentOS 7

How to install Webmin on Ubuntu 18.04

This How To is designed to help you install Webmin on your fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver and then walk you through some basic functionality like creating a website and adding users.   We...

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How to install Webmin on Ubuntu 18.04

How To Install And Configure CouchPotato On A Raspberry PI

CouchPotato an application server that will easily and automatically download movies and T.V. series. You can set the quality that you want to download e.g. 4K or 1080p, the movie you want and CouchPo...

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How To Install And Configure CouchPotato On A Raspberry PI

LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack, which includes A...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and in...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox, running Debian 9. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

How To Create a DNS Server On Ubuntu 18.04

The DNS or Domain Name System is the distributed database that allows zone records, such as IP addresses, to be associated with domain names. When a computer, such as your laptop or phone, needs to co...

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