In my previous article about ansible, I gave a very basic introduction to it. After reading it, you were able to create your own playbooks and apply them to a single (group of) server(s). However, ansible is much more powerful than that.…
Read more about Managing multiple servers with Ansible groups IPv6 is a topic that has received a lot of discussion over the last couple of years. Although originally from 1996, IPv6 became more…
Read more about IPv6 with a Hurricane Electric tunnel Backups are about the most important thing about managing a server. If anything happens to your server, like data loss, a customer making a…
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A common problem with managing multiple servers is keeping their configurations identical (or similar, depending on the purpose of the servers). When you set…
Read more about Getting started with ansibleThere are many ways to remotely monitor your servers, but nagios is one of the most configurable and flexible ones. Once you have set…
Read more about Remote server monitoring with nagios
Nagios is one of the most easy, expandable and trustworthy ways to monitor the status of your server(s). It is highly configurable and even…
Read more about Server Monitoring with Nagios TutorialSo you think your OpenVZ VPS really has "guaranteed memory"? Well. Not quite. I have got an OpenVZ VPS from one of the providers…
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Any user of Version Control System? When I started as a programmer back in the 90's it was RCS. Then moved to CVS when…
Read more about Running Trac + Git Hosting on a Low End VPS
One constantly posted question on LowEndBox and LowEndTalk is -- how to get the same setup as LowEndBox, a WordPress site that runs on…
Read more about Bootstraping WordPress/Nginx/PHP/MySQL on a Cheap VPS with lowendscriptSaw this discussion on WHT today when someone tries to confirm whether "32bit systems are better when it comes to memory management", and when…
Read more about 32bit or 64bit for My Low End VPS, Take #2Well. Not much cheap deals going on at the moment nor do I have anything useful to write about. So here is just some…
Read more about How Do You Monitor Your Low End Virtual Server?Just a small tips for those trying to run multiple threaded applications on OpenVZ. Personally I code quite a few multi-threaded applications in Python…
Read more about Reduce Stack Limit for Multi-Thread AppsIt was fun setting up your very own server. I remembered the time when I received the root password to my very first virtual…
Read more about Bootstraping Low End VPS with Pre-built ScriptsEarly in June I posted RIP KT Ligesh of LxLabs, as the owner of LxLabs passed away leaving behind two great products that pretty…
Read more about HyperVM and Kloxo Now Open Sourced, Hosted at LxCenterSaw quite a few visitors coming from Whirlpool.net.au, an Australian community forum, from a post asking about seedbox hosting. Now, the term "seedbox" was…
Read more about Using a Low End VPS as SeedBox HostingOne thing I hated about WebHostingTalk is how much bad advice the so-called "professionals" are giving out to the world. Some poor college student…
Read more about Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPSA while a go I looked at Bash replacements for interactive shells. Unfortunately for me, I am just getting too used to having Bash…
Read more about Replacing Big Fat Bash with Dash for ScriptingIt's actually a tip from Lincoln, who emailed me last month: Another idea is to replace bash (~4M/instance) with pdksh (~1M/instance). It doesn't sound…
Read more about Replacing That Big Fat BashGot your dirt cheap VPS with only 64MB guaranteed memory on OpenVZ? Want to move your WordPress blog from some insanely oversold shared hosting…
Read more about Getting Rid of A in LAMP for Your Low End VPSWhen you go and find a cheap low end Linux virtual server, the criteria usually involve price (very important!), location (for low latency SSH…
Read more about Stick to 32 Bit For Your Low End BoxMySQL is pretty much the de facto database engine for most open source scripts, and it is almost-always installed on hosted servers. However the…
Read more about Reducing MySQL Memory Usage for Low End BoxesWhen you are using a low-end server with only 64MB of memory, sometimes you just have to look for alternate software packages with less…
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