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 been around for awhile. The thread was started on September 12, 2021 and now has 36 pages, 15.8K views, and 1.1K comments. The high level of interest in Udemy caught my attention! On June 10, @Arkas posted on Low End Talk ab...
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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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For some reason, I can never remember these certbot commands. Bookmarked! --raindog308 Introduction Debian, Apache, Certbot, and Let's Encrypt are frequently used for websites. A problem for beginne...
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Last night, in a moment of sudden Low End Inspiration, I grabbed a Hetzner Auction Server! It's been awhile since I had a server at Hetzner. I wanted something for a few new projects. I haven't decide...
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When Gmail got going, they allowed people to setup email with custom domains, so naturally all of you did. Then they took that feature away and said if you want that, you have to pay, but legacy accou...
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Previously we made KVM VPses with Qemu's default slirp networking. This time we will set up networking with Qemu so each Virtual Machine can have its own IP address. With slirp, we didn't have...
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Go to any random web page and look at the source and you'll see a variety of image file formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and WEBP. As a viewer, you don't care because your browser renders all of the...
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Life Is Good In Mexico! Everything about visiting Mexico has been wonderful! The people here are very kind, very friendly, and completely welcoming. The food is great, and life is peaceful. I have onl...
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Editorial Comment: Grrrrr...thanks a lot, TOM! Now you've given me yet another useless hobby. -- raindog308 Almost everybody knows that Unix was developed at Bell Labs and that Linux and many other c...
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Many readers from the LowEnd community will see this headline and say "well of course, traditional VPS is ___ and cloud is ___ and it's so obvious." However, our mission here at LowEndBox is to evang...
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I've been doing a ton of Python coding lately and one thing I've really appreciated is how easy it is to implement a plugin system. When would you use this? If you're shipping code, you may want to i...
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Route48's Free Tunnel Broker Service Route48.org provides free IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel broker service as well as many additional services via a well designed, fast, and easy to use web interface. Route48...
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Microsoft's Bing search engine launched in 2009 and has been a distant number two to mighty Google. One might say that Google is the Microsoft of search engines and Microsoft is the Apple...well, if...
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Introduction You easily can launch your own additional KVM VPSes on your own existing Linux machine! Do you want to try a different Linux distribution? Or try a different setup of your favorite distri...
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Continuing our Opinion-Editorial and Guest Article Series, today we are talking with Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd regarding the differences between an affiliate program and being a hosting reseller....
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Introduction A recent Low End Box Editorial asked whether CapRover and the rise of one-click web installs has made Linux distributions obsolete. The above linked Editorial discussed similarities betwe...
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As you can probably tell by this being the second Python article this weekend, I've been doing a bit of Python coding, both at work and at home. It's a pleasant language to work in, and one of Python...
Read MoreThis is the third in our series on USENET. Previous articles: USENET Part 1: Wasn't USENET Part of AOL or Something Back in the Dial-Up Days? USENET Part 2: Spambots, Scientology Wars, and the Intern...
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Like many of you, I write a lot of throwaway scripts to do a task. These are quick undocumented 20-line blobs of code that do janitorial or maintenance tasks and they're deleted almost as soon as the...
Read MoreA question is often posed asking why providers offer plans with minimal resources. This references VPS plans with 128MB, 256MB, and similar RAM allocations. RAM is the primary concern because of CPU a...
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Would you like some more USENET lore? OK, let's talk about Menudo (note the capital letter) green card lawyers kooks and spambots war with Scientology Joel Furr T-shirts eternal September how Google...
Read MoreThanks to @hzhoanglee for helping with this story! What are Caprover and Heroku? CapRover is an easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager for your web applications. CapRover is a fr...
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In this article we begin a series on USENET, a "worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers," as Wikipedia puts it. USENET was begun in 1980 and has changed dramatically over its l...
Read MoreA ramdisk - or if you prefer, RAMdisk - is a method of taking a section of memory and treating it as disk. If you think about it for a moment, the pros/cons should be obvious: RAM is much faster than...
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Back in December 2019 I spotted on Low End Talk a great offer for bare metal servers from OVH's SoYouStart brand. As I looked at the ad, I wondered: Could one guy, working solo, become a successful ho...
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In the course of my career, I've periodically come across code like this in shell scripts: TEMP_FILE=/tmp/tempfile Or sometimes, slightly more elegantly: TEMPFILE=/tmp/tempfile.$$ The problems with th...
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I've been working on a small app written in golang, and I'd like my local-area network connections to the golang-embedded webserver to be over https. Most of the clients are going to be scripts runni...
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In a previous post I invited folks to join me in auditing MIT's Free Online Operating System Course. This post outlines what I have done to get ready to run MIT's teaching operating system, Xv6, on my...
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