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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Four Step VPS Webserver: Debian, Apache, Certbot, And Let's Encrypt!
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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Faster, Easier Proxmox Install On A Hetzner Dedicated Server!
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...
Read MoreYou've Procrastinated Handle Your Gmail Legacy and Now It's June. Here's a Painless 15-Second Step-by-Step to Get on With Life
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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More Home Made Qemu KVM Recipes! — Give Each VM Its Own IP Address!
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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Save that Image as...JPG? PNG? GIF? HEIC? WEBP? Which do I Want and When?
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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Change Geolocation Without A VPN! Debian VPS + Tinyproxy + SwitchyOmega On A Chromebook!
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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Fast And Easy Install Of Plan 9 From Bell Labs On Any Linux Distribution!
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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Cheap VPS? Cheap VM? Cheap Cloud? What's the Difference?
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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