mpkossen

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May 26, 2015

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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...

mpkossen

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Oct 11, 2014

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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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Sep 28, 2014

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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...

Jonathan Tan

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Sep 15, 2014

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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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Aug 20, 2014

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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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Jun 22, 2014

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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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May 03, 2014

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  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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Apr 05, 2014

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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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Mar 29, 2014

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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...

mpkossen

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Feb 22, 2014

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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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Dec 28, 2013

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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...

mpkossen

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Nov 23, 2013

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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...

mpkossen

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Nov 03, 2013

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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...

mpkossen

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Oct 19, 2013

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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...