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Using a Ubuntu/Debian VPS to Establish Anonymous SSH sessions with TOR

Jarland
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Dec 26, 2015
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Comments (3)

Perhaps you've wanted to set up a virtual private server (VPS) to anonymize HTTP traffic on the TOR network. OpenSSH would be the first solution that admins would turn to, given the fact that OpenSSH is the de facto tool used utilize to encrypt connections on a VPS. A bigger question remains: How do you port all of your TOR connections through SSH? A few configuration changes must be made. Also, a proxy must be establishe...

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Using a Ubuntu/Debian VPS to Establish Anonymous SSH sessions with TOR

How to properly background a process in Linux

Jarland
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Dec 21, 2015
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Comments (7)

If you're like me, you find yourself running processes every now and then that don't have init scripts and simply remain active in your session. One common example of that would be a Minecraft server...

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How to properly background a process in Linux

How to Rapidly Install Java, OpenJDK & Oracle JDK on your VPS

mpkossen
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Dec 14, 2015
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Comments (1)

Perhaps you're using a Low End Box to host a game or some type of application that requires the Java Runtime Environment. Perhaps you'd like to use your VPS as a dev environment for your Java app? Whi...

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How to Rapidly Install Java, OpenJDK & Oracle JDK on your VPS

Start Selling Online: Install Magento using SSH

Jon Biloh
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Nov 24, 2015
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Comments (5)

Black Friday and the shopping season are quickly descending upon us. Why not put your Low End Box to work for you? Installing the Magento Shopping Cart app using SSH is a painless install. Needless to...

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Start Selling Online: Install Magento using SSH

Setting Up Your VPS as a Squid Proxy Server

Jon Biloh
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Nov 16, 2015
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Comments (11)

Looking for a proxy server app that can be rapidly deployed on Linux? Installing Squid on your low end box can provide your organization with a robust proxy server that can facilitate a secure Interne...

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Setting Up Your VPS as a Squid Proxy Server

MySQL on CentOS 7 (MariaDB)

mpkossen
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Oct 19, 2015
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Comments (8)

Welcome back to yet another tutorial in the CentOS 7 series! This time I will (again) continue where I left of last time, with the installation of PHP (specifically, PHP-FPM). The last tutorials are a...

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MySQL on CentOS 7 (MariaDB)

PHP on CentOS 7 (PHP-FPM)

mpkossen
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Oct 05, 2015
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Comments (14)

Welcome back! This week's tutorial will focus on installing PHP on CentOS 7 and will continue were I left off last time: with the installation of NGINX. The last tutorial is a prerequisite for this on...

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PHP on CentOS 7 (PHP-FPM)

NGINX on CentOS 7

mpkossen
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Sep 21, 2015
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Comments (3)

  Welcome back for another tutorial! This time I'm going to show you how to get started with NGINX on CentOS 7. CentOS 7 has been out for quite a while now, but it's not become a standard quite yet. S...

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NGINX on CentOS 7

Server monitoring with Icinga 2 - Part 2: the node (Ubuntu host)

mpkossen
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Sep 02, 2015
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Comments (26)

It's been a long, long wait! But it's finally here, the second part of the Icinga 2 tutorial that I've promised a while ago. Last time, we set up an Icinga 2 server to which we are now going to add a...

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Server monitoring with Icinga 2 - Part 2: the node (Ubuntu host)

Server monitoring with Icinga 2 - Part 1: the server (Ubuntu host)

mpkossen
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Jun 29, 2015
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Nagios has, for a long time, been the defacto standard tool for server monitoring. These day that's surprising, as Nagios' visible development has been quite slow over the past years and new solutions...

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Server monitoring with Icinga 2 - Part 1: the server (Ubuntu host)

Tutorial - OpenVPN for internal-ip only virtual machine hosts

mpkossen
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Jun 12, 2015
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Comments (7)

Welcome to another tutorial! This time I will be showing you a neat trick to get OpenVPN working within a larger subnet used for an Ethernet bridge. Say what now? Let me explain. I had the following i...

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Tutorial - OpenVPN for internal-ip only virtual machine hosts

Tutorial – The LowEndCluster – Part 4

mpkossen
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May 26, 2015
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Comments (5)

It's time for the fourth and final part in the LowEndCluster series, a series of tutorials aimed at effectively using LowEndSpirit or very budget/low-resource boxes to create a redundant cluster hosti...

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Tutorial – The LowEndCluster – Part 4

Tutorial – The LowEndCluster – Part 3

mpkossen
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May 12, 2015
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Comments (5)

Welcome back to the 3rd part of the LowEndCluster tutorial series! Last time we've set up an actual web node which we're going to put behind a "load balancer", or actually a proxy, in this tutorial. T...

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Tutorial – The LowEndCluster – Part 3

Tutorial - The LowEndCluster - Part 2

mpkossen
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May 03, 2015
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Comments (5)

Two weeks have passed and it's time for the second part of the LowEndCluster tutorial series! This time around I'm going to focus on setting up the web nodes, which we will later tie together with a s...

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Tutorial - The LowEndCluster - Part 2

Tutorial - The LowEndCluster - Part 1

mpkossen
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Apr 18, 2015
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Comments (24)

The tutorials are back! After a period of absence it's time to get the tutorials back on track and I'm going to start of with a great series, and a challenging one on that. With all these LowEndSpirit...

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Tutorial - The LowEndCluster - Part 1

Finding your way on your first ever VPS - Part III

mpkossen
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Oct 11, 2014
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Comments (5)

Part III of the "Finding your way on your first ever VPS" series is right in front of you right now! This time I'm going to focus on some powerful tools which can make your day-to-day life a lot easie...

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Finding your way on your first ever VPS - Part III

Finding your way on your first ever VPS - Part II

mpkossen
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Sep 28, 2014
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Comments (1)

A couple of weeks ago, I posted the 'Finding your way on your first ever VPS - Part I' tutorial. This is part 2 of that series in which I will introduce you to another couple of commands! I am going t...

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Finding your way on your first ever VPS - Part II

Setup for streaming live events to browser clients using Nginx, FMLE, and FlowPlayer

Jonathan Tan
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Sep 15, 2014
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Comments (50)

Editorial note: this is Jonathan's first tutorial on LowEndBox. I hope you enjoy it and more are to follow in the future! If all goes well, he will be writing tutorials occasionally alongside me. MPK...

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Setup for streaming live events to browser clients using Nginx, FMLE, and FlowPlayer

Finding your way on your first ever VPS - Part I

mpkossen
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Aug 20, 2014
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Comments (21)

In the past, I have shown you how to connect to your VPS over SSH on both Windows and Linux. But if you are a first-timer and you have never used a VPS before, you may be quite lost once you're on you...

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Finding your way on your first ever VPS - Part I

Getting started with MySQL over SSL

mpkossen
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Jun 22, 2014
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Comments (14)

When you want to reach a database server with a client that is not on that server, you usually set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in order to access the server securely without having to open it u...

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Getting started with MySQL over SSL

How to setup MySQL master slave replication

mpkossen
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May 03, 2014
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Comments (20)

  Over the past few years, databases have become increasingly important. Not only for businesses, but also for personal purposes. Almost every website requires a database these days, as the informatio...

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How to setup MySQL master slave replication

Observing devices with Observium - Adding a device

mpkossen
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Apr 05, 2014
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Comments (9)

Last week I've introduced you to Observium and shown you how to install it. This week, it's time to add devices to Observium. In order to add a device to Observium, the device must support SNMP/have S...

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Observing devices with Observium - Adding a device

Observing devices with Observium - Setting up the server

mpkossen
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Mar 29, 2014
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Comments (13)

It's time for another tutorial! This time I'm taking you into the magical world of Observium and SNMP. Observium is a tool that helps you monitor your servers remotely. But not only your servers; all...

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Observing devices with Observium - Setting up the server

How to setup SSH for Ubuntu or Windows

mpkossen
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Feb 22, 2014
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Comments (14)

It's been a while again, since I've posted a tutorial. I've been quite busy with a lot of things and have had a nice little vacation as well. But no worries, the tutorials are back on schedule and I'm...

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How to setup SSH for Ubuntu or Windows

An introduction to NGINX, PHP-FPM and MariaDB on CentOS

mpkossen
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Dec 28, 2013
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Comments (21)

Last week, I wrote about setting up a NGINX, PHP-FPM and MariaDB stack for Ubuntu. Today we're going to tackle the same stack for CentOS. A couple of years back, getting a web server up and running in...

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An introduction to NGINX, PHP-FPM and MariaDB on CentOS

How to Setup a Ngnix PHP-FPM MariaDB Stack Ubuntu

mpkossen
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Nov 23, 2013
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Comments (36)

A couple of years back, getting a web server up and running involved setting up Apache, mod_php and MySQL. Everything was owned by "a user" and if a script needed file access, you would just chmod 777...

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How to Setup a Ngnix PHP-FPM MariaDB Stack Ubuntu

Tutorial: Getting started with OpenVZ!

mpkossen
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Nov 03, 2013
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Comments (30)

OpenVZ, who doesn't know it? It's been used (and abused) for many, many years in the hosting industry and it's still out there going strong. Being a operation system-level virtualization technology, t...

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Tutorial: Getting started with OpenVZ!

Handle DNS properly with cPanel

mpkossen
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Oct 19, 2013
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Comments (49)

After a couple of very busy weeks (got married, went on our honeymoon and took over from Liam) it's finally time for a tutorial again! The tutorials are going to be released in a more natural flow now...

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Handle DNS properly with cPanel
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