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Jun 07, 2022

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...

Faster, Easier Proxmox Install On A Hetzner Dedicated Server!

You'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

Jun 05, 2022

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...

You'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

More Home Made Qemu KVM Recipes! — Give Each VM Its Own IP Address!

Jun 05, 2022

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...

More Home Made Qemu KVM Recipes! — Give Each VM Its Own IP Address!

Save that Image as...JPG? PNG? GIF? HEIC? WEBP? Which do I Want and When?

Jun 03, 2022

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...

Save that Image as...JPG? PNG? GIF? HEIC? WEBP? Which do I Want and When?

Change Geolocation Without A VPN! Debian VPS + Tinyproxy + SwitchyOmega On A Chromebook!

Jun 02, 2022

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...

Change Geolocation Without A VPN! Debian VPS + Tinyproxy + SwitchyOmega On A Chromebook!

Fast And Easy Install Of Plan 9 From Bell Labs On Any Linux Distribution!

May 31, 2022

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...

Fast And Easy Install Of Plan 9 From Bell Labs On Any Linux Distribution!

Implement a Plugin Architecture in Python with Only Two Lines of Code!

May 30, 2022

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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...

Route48.org -- Free IPv4 To IPv6 Tunnel Broker Service Plus Much More!

May 28, 2022

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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...

Route48.org -- Free IPv4 To IPv6 Tunnel Broker Service Plus Much More!

Microsoft Paid Me $400 to Use Bing. They'll Pay You, Too!

May 28, 2022

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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...

Microsoft Paid Me $400 to Use Bing. They'll Pay You, Too!

Three Quick And Easy Home Made Qemu KVM VPS Recipes! -- Bake Them Yourself On Almost Any Linux Distribution!

May 26, 2022

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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...

Three Quick And Easy Home Made Qemu KVM VPS Recipes! -- Bake Them Yourself On Almost Any Linux Distribution!

Guest Post: Webhosting Affiliate Residual Income by RackNerd - Affiliates vs Resellers Explained

May 21, 2022

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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....

Guest Post: Webhosting Affiliate Residual Income by RackNerd - Affiliates vs Resellers Explained

Binary Docker For CapRover Web Installs On Any Linux Distribution!

May 17, 2022

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...

Config Files are Trivial: Python's configparser Module

May 08, 2022

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...

USENET Part 3: Let's Give SABnzbd and Vampira a Spin!

May 07, 2022

This 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...

USENET Part 3: Let's Give SABnzbd and Vampira a Spin!

Command-Line Argument Processing for the Lazy: Python's argparse Module

May 07, 2022

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...

What Can You Do With A Minimal-Resource Cheap VPS?

Sean Perryman

May 01, 2022

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A 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...

What Can You Do With A Minimal-Resource Cheap VPS?

USENET Part 2: Spambots, Scientology Wars, and the Internet's First Deity

Apr 29, 2022

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...

USENET Part 2: Spambots, Scientology Wars, and the Internet's First Deity

Install 200+ Apps In Your VPS With One-Click! -- Introduction To CapRover!

Apr 28, 2022

Thanks 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...

USENET Part 1: Wasn't USENET Part of AOL or Something Back in the Dial-Up Days?

Apr 25, 2022

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...

USENET Part 1: Wasn't USENET Part of AOL or Something Back in the Dial-Up Days?

Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

Apr 19, 2022

A 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...

Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

How To Become A Successful Solo Low End Hosting Provider! -- How One Guy Is Succeeding In 2022!

Apr 17, 2022

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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...

How To Become A Successful Solo Low End Hosting Provider! -- How One Guy Is Succeeding In 2022!

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

Apr 09, 2022

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...

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

The Wrong Way to Use Let's Encrypt on a Private Network

Apr 04, 2022

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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...

The Wrong Way to Use Let's Encrypt on a Private Network

How To Compile The 3 Items Needed To Begin MIT’s Free Xv6 Online Operating System Course!

Mar 30, 2022

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...

How To Compile The 3 Items Needed To Begin MIT’s Free Xv6 Online Operating System Course!

Tutorial: Moving a Proxmox VM to Different Disk

Mar 17, 2022

I've setup a home virtualization lab using ProxMox, which is a free and very powerful virtualization host. Prior to ProxMox, I tried: VmWare ESXi: No clones in the free version? See ya. XCP-ng: Got s...

Tutorial: Moving a Proxmox VM to Different Disk

Invitation To Join Me For MIT's Free Online Operating System Course!

Mar 13, 2022