Have you thought about setting up your own private Git server on a spare VPS? Thanks to the popularity of services like GitHub, Git has become very widespread among the developer community. You don't have to use a service like GitHub to enjoy the benefits of git. It is open source and available to everyone. There are a lot of reasons that you might want to run your own git server. Primarily, because many other developers...
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MariaDB is forked from MySQL, MariaDB has been known to be a drop-in replacement that brings enhancements and performance optimizations over MySQL. This tutorial will show you how to install, optimize...
Read MoreOne of your essential addons for your web browsers is almost definitely some sort of ad blocker. Resources like bandwidth are a precious resource, especially when your ISP is of the many that limit it...
Read MorePowerShell is now open source, and available for Linux and Mac. You can download official packages from Microsoft for the 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 7, Red Hat Enterprise Li...
Read MoreHave you been looking for a way to send SMS messages from your virtual private server (VPS)? With the help of the TextBelt app, you can do just that. TextBelt is a project created by Ian Webster that...
Read MoreEncrypting the connections to your website will help you keep your customer’s data safe and secure. Without encryption, a malicious actor could sniff the connection of your users and intercept the pac...
Read MoreAutomatically backing up files from a VPS to your DropBox account is simpler than you might think. When you configure your VPS to automatically send backups to your DropBox storage account, you can be...
Read MoreTwitter's versatile platform makes it easy for people to stay up to date on the latest information and news. Did you know that Twitter's API can be rapidly configured to integrate directly into almost...
Read MoreSecurity risks are discovered each and every day. How can you know that your VPS is protected against the latest threats? One of the best methods of keeping your server safe is to implement automatic...
Read MoreIn order to migrate the files on a VPS box from one provider to another, one of the best solutions for the job is to use a tool called Rsync. Let’s take a closer look at Rsync and see how it can help...
Read MoreMumble is a high-quality, low-latency voice chat app that was primarily developed for those in the gaming community. If you've got a spare low end server, you could consider implementing Mumble to fac...
Read MoreIn order to enable your website to send e-mails, you will need to install additional components to facilitate this service. On your Linux VPS, many system administrators choose Postfix. Getting Starte...
Read MorePerhaps 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...
Read MoreIf 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...
Read MorePerhaps 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...
Read MoreBlack 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...
Read MoreLooking 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...
Read MoreWelcome 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...
Read MoreWelcome 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...
Read MoreWelcome 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...
Read MoreIt'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...
Read MoreNagios 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...
Read MoreWelcome 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...
Read MoreIt'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...
Read MoreWelcome 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...
Read MoreTwo 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MorePart 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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