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PHP on CentOS 7 (PHP-FPM)

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 one, so if you haven't followed that one yet, now is the time to do so. We're not going to "just" install PHP, though. We want to do it right. First of all, we're going to install PHP-FPM so PHP can run as a separate process ra...

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PHP on CentOS 7 (PHP-FPM)

NGINX on CentOS 7

  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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Open source server performance monitoring tool: Munin

Have you ever wished you could monitor the performance of your server after the fact? Or did you ever want to get some statistics of your server, about it's performance and the amount of resources use...

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Open source server performance monitoring tool: Munin

Getting started with OpenVPN (server)

There are various ways to set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN). With the various protocols available to use for VPN and all the software out there, it's often a spider's web when you just want to se...

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Getting started with OpenVPN (server)

Your own mail server with Virtualmin

In light of recent events, there's been a lot of chatter about leaving free e-mail services in favor of self-hosted e-mail. With self-hosted e-mail you have the option to host your e-mail wherever you...

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Your own mail server with Virtualmin

IPtables: IPv6 and more rules

This is the last tutorial in a series of iptables tutorials. Last week I've shown you how to persist iptables. The week before that I gave a short introduction. I now want to finish that series with t...

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IPtables: IPv6 and more rules

IPtables Persistent Rules

Last week I've shown you how to get started with IPtables and create and delete rules. This week I'm going to show you how to save the rules you write. This will ensure the rules you apply are re-appl...

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IPtables Persistent Rules

IPtables Tutorial on Inserting and Deleting Rules

This tutorial is another part in a series of a security-related tutorials. This time, I'm going to talk about IPtables. IPtables is a software firewall that can filter out certain types of traffic. Mo...

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IPtables Tutorial on Inserting and Deleting Rules
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