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. Since they made some big changes to the way CentOS works, migrations aren't exactly what you'd call easy. In the end, though, CentOS 7 will be used by more and more people. Including those willing to run a web server! NGINX is...
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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...
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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreEditorial 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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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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreOver 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...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreIt'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...
Read MoreIt'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...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreOpenVZ, 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...
Read MoreAfter 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...
Read MoreHave 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...
Read MoreThere 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreThere are many ways to remotely monitor your servers, but nagios is one of the most configurable and flexible ones. Once you have set up nagios, your localhost is being checked. But when there are rea...
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