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.
Read MoreAnd you thought Silk Road was bad.This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreOdoo 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...
Read MoreIt'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!...
Read MoreBack 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreStay 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...
Read MoreRecently 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...
Read MoreToday 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreRecently 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 MoreLow 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,...
Read MoreSometimes 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...
Read MoreI'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...
Read MoreEnjoy 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 MoreIntroduction 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 MoreUdemy 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...
Read MoreRemember 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...
Read MoreFor 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...
Read MoreLast 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 MoreWhen 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...
Read MorePreviously 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...
Read MoreGo 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...
Read MoreLife 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...
Read MoreEditorial 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...
Read MoreMany 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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