Stop the Senseless Flushing!
After you create users and grant privileges in MySQL, the next step is to FLUSH PRIVILEGES, right? Wrong.
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Five Ways to Get a New Forum Off the Ground in 2023
How do you go from zero to a robust forum community in 2023? It isn't easy but we provide some tips for you to get that forum you've been thinking about up and running this year.
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Put a Glide in Your Stride and a Dip In Your Hip and Use a Mother Script!
In this tutorial, learn how to make your cron-driven shell scripts easier to manage by using a mother script. We'll show you how you'll never have to think about cleaning up temp files again!
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From Oracle Cloud to TOR to Telegram: Check Out LowEndTalk Tutorials!
Want to setup OpenLiteSpeed on Oracle Cloud arm instances? Need to transfer data between Telegram and your VPS? Want to configure your VPN to exit fast TOR nodes? Check out LowEndTalk's tutorials!
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How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?
About Gzip And Tar Everybody on Linux and BSD seems to use a program called gzip, frequently in conjunction with another program called tar. Tar, named from Tape ARchive, is a program which copies fil...
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How To Move Your Site To Oracle Cloud Free Tier With scp(1)
Recently I wanted to take advantage of Oracle's Free Tier to serve my Low End website for free. By moving to Oracle Free Tier, I now save the $5 per month which was paying for the VPS on which my site...
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How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Back in March, LEB published Asking the Oracle, "Is 'Always Free' the future of the Low End?" The March article pointed out one of the main features of Oracle Cloud Free Tier: no credit card is requir...
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What You Need to Know About Buying A Hetzner Auction Server
It's like eBay for cheap dedicated servers!
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What Happens When Your Site's DNS Goes Down?
SPOILER ALERT: It isn't pretty. When DNS becomes unreachable your website will experience downtime. Read more to see what I learned after a recent 9 hour outage to one of my websites.
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LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances
And you thought Silk Road was bad.This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.
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Drop Dead Simple: One-Clause Handling of NGINX + Certbot + HTTP Basic Auth!
This is a quick tutorial on setting up NGINX with Certbot when you're using HTTP Basic Authentication. HBA is what you see if you set parameters like this in a location: auth_basic "some arbit...
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How to Install Odoo (Because Odoo Won't Tell You)
Odoo is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with a freemium model. If you are running an organization, you could use Odoo to handle all your accounting, inventory, CRM, invoicing, etc. It's...
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More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache
It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan. Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing. They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello!...
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Use Arc Forum Or Anarki To Make Your Own Hacker News!
Back in March @Not_Oles invited people from Low End Box to join a study group for MIT's Operating System Engineering course, which is available for free online. Just recently, a group of fifteen actua...
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Certbun, An Easier Alternative To Certbot, From Porkbun
Low End Box and @Not_Oles thank Porkbun and Eddie Barksdale for providing this guest post about Certbun, Porkbun's alternative to Certbot. "Why should I use Certbun rather than Certbot," you ask? @Not...
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How to Install Mattermost (Free Slack Alternative)
This tutorial was contributed by Dustin Cisneros from RackNerd. If you are looking for a VPS, be sure to take a look at RackNerd’s latest special offers here. They’re also perfect for running Mattermo...
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What the Heck is a NAT VPS, Anyway?
Stay tuned for a post in a few hours with a fantastic NAT VPS offer! For some time, it was the norm to get an IPv4 when you rented a VM. One VM = 1 IPv4 and life was simple. Then humans kept breeding...
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How To Check ECC Memory On A Hetzner Dedicated Server
Recently we've been discussing getting started on a new VPS or dedicated server. Specific topics have included updating the operating system and configuring ssh, running a yabs benchmark, and checking...
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Commifying Numbers in Linux: Not as Easy as it Looks
Today I had a need to process large numbers of PostgreSQL database tables and report how many rows were in each. Once I had that information, I needed to do some additional math on this data and then...
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How To Fix A CertBot CAA Error Blaming Your Nameservers
This post discusses how to resolve a possible Certbot error. Certbot can fail to install a Let's Encrypt certificate when the certificate is requested for a subdomain in situations where a DNS Certifi...
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How To Check Hard Drives On A Hetzner Dedicated Server
Recently we posted How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server. That post discussed our first steps on a new server, including updating the operating system and configuring sshd. Next we posted a...
Read MoreUpdating A Free Udemy Bootstrap Course On Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Low End Box recently published A Beginner’s Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy’s Free Courses! The second of the two Udemy courses discussed in that post was Create a Members Only Blog using PHP, MySQL,...
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Using Free Dynamic DNS with afraid.org
Sometimes when I'm on the road, I want to connect to something at home. To do that, I need to know my home IP, which changes periodically. There are a couple ways I could accomplish this, but the me...
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BackBlaze B2 with rclone for Effortless Cheap Cloud Backups!
I've been a fan of BackBlaze's B2 cloud storage service for a long time. The pricing is great and very straightforward: $.005 per GB per month, and $.01 per GB to download. I use B2 for my cloud back...
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How To Use YABS To Check Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server
Enjoy this YABS workout from Tom! Sorry, couldn't resist the pun. I should have. --raindog308 Benching With Yabs Hello again from sunny Sonora! Recently I wrote about How To Begin On Your New VPS O...
Read MoreHow To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server
Introduction Hello from sunny Sonora! This morning I was delighted to receive an email from Hetzner telling me that my new AX41-NVMe server was provisioned with Debian and ready to go! This post discu...
Read MoreA Beginner's Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy's Free Courses!
Udemy recently has been featured both here on Low End Box and on Low End Talk. Also, on September 20, 2021, Low End Box previously featured Low End Talk's Udemy thread. Low End Talk's Udemy thread has...
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Fix Gmail Deliverability Problems Inexpensively With Migadu!
Remember when you could just fire off an email and be sure it'd arrive? Me, neither, it's been so long. Email deliverability is a real hassle here in the 21st century...thanks for this look at one s...
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