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...

mpkossen

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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...

mpkossen

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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...

mpkossen

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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...

mpkossen

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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...

mpkossen

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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...

mpkossen

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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...

mpkossen

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Sep 14, 2013

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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...

mpkossen

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Aug 31, 2013

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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...

mpkossen

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Aug 24, 2013

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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...

mpkossen

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Aug 06, 2013

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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...

mpkossen

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Jul 27, 2013

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There 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...

mpkossen

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Jul 20, 2013

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Nagios is one of the most easy, expandable and trustworthy ways to monitor the status of your server(s). It is highly configurable and even lets you write your own plugins in whatever language you wan...

mpkossen

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Jul 13, 2013

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A couple of weeks ago I started with the first tutorial in a series of security-related ones. This is the second tutorial in this series. Last time I spoke about SSH and sudo. As Raymii pointed out in...

mpkossen

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Jul 06, 2013

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a tutorial on how to use duplicity to make encrypted, incremental backups over various available protocols. The process was a manual one, though, and would always requir...

mpkossen

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Jun 29, 2013

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One of the most important aspects of running a server is a good security policy. It is also one of the things that comes last, usually. But if you don't pay attention to it up front, it's going to cos...

mpkossen

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Jun 22, 2013

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Last week I wrote a tutorial about routing IPv6 from a HE tunnel to VPS on Ubuntu. As promised, this week the CentOS version! A couple of weeks ago I wrote a tutorial where I explained how to set up a...

mpkossen

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Jun 16, 2013

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a tutorial where I explained how to set up a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel on your KVM VPS. While this is a nice solution, it still requires the customer to fix somethin...

mpkossen

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Jun 08, 2013

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In my previous article about ansible, I gave a very basic introduction to it. After reading it, you were able to create your own playbooks and apply them to a single (group of) server(s). However, ans...

mpkossen

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Jun 01, 2013

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IPv6 is a topic that has received a lot of discussion over the last couple of years. Although originally from 1996, IPv6 became more important and more implemented over the last few years because of I...

mpkossen

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May 25, 2013

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Backups are about the most important thing about managing a server. If anything happens to your server, like data loss, a customer making a mistake (and accidentally removing data) or a full-blown ser...