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

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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 include hooks for your end users to extend your code.  If you document a plugin interface, they can write their own custom code. In my case, I'm using Python's multiprocessing module to fire off a variety of jobs.  The core en...

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

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

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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...

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

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

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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...

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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!

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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...

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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

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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....

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

Binary Docker For CapRover Web Installs On Any Linux Distribution!

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May 17, 2022
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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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Binary Docker For CapRover Web Installs On Any Linux Distribution!

Config Files are Trivial: Python's configparser Module

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May 08, 2022
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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...

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Config Files are Trivial: Python's configparser Module

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

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May 07, 2022
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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...

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

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May 07, 2022
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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...

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

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

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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...

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

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

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Apr 29, 2022
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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...

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

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Apr 28, 2022
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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...

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

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Apr 25, 2022
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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...

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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

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Apr 19, 2022
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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...

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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!

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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...

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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

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Apr 09, 2022
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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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The Wrong Way to Use Let's Encrypt on a Private Network

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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...

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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!

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Mar 30, 2022
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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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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

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Mar 17, 2022
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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...

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Tutorial: Moving a Proxmox VM to Different Disk

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

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Did you ever have something you wanted to do for a long time but never actually started? Maybe something that seemed too big or too difficult? For a long time I've wanted to take MIT's Operating Syste...

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

Setting Up an Email Server; Delivery Issues When Sending From A Clean IP

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Mar 11, 2022
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I. Setting Up Our Own Email Server If we are here on the Low End because we are starting or running a business, then email definitely will be on our list of needed features. Many of our wonderful Low...

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Setting Up an Email Server; Delivery Issues When Sending From A Clean IP

Run a $8 Million Mainframe at Home for FREE!

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In the mid-70s, my father worked in the American automotive industry in Michigan, and I visited him at work as a small boy.  He took me into the "computer room" (as they used to call datacenters) and...

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Virtfusion + ExtraVM = 7 Second, Super Easy Linux Install!

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@Phill from Virtfusion is launching his new virtualization management utility, also called Virtfusion. @MikeA at ExtraVM already has Virtfusion up and running at OVH Gravelines Data Center. When @Mike...

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@Ympker's Cool WordPress Plugin to Ease GDPR Compliance!

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As reported here on Low End Box a few days ago, a German court found that the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) required website hosts to avoid sharing readers' IP addresses w...

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@Ympker's Cool WordPress Plugin to Ease GDPR Compliance!

How to Transfer a Kimsufi Server

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Feb 18, 2022
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Great tutorials should be concise.  How concise?  How about 27 words? LowEndBox would like to give a shout-out to LowEndTalk member @skorupian setting a new world record for the shortest quality tutor...

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Painless Removable Media Backups...to the Cloud!

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Jan 17, 2022
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Do you still use USB thumb drives?  Flash or SD or MicroSD cards?  Portable hard drives? Even in this age of ubiquitous cloud, there's still a ton of bits and bytes being carried around in people's ba...

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Painless Removable Media Backups...to the Cloud!

Have You Checked Out Our Tutorials?

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Nov 25, 2021
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Sure, you come to LowEndBox to get great deals, but did you know you can also learn a thing or two here? We have over 250 tutorials we've published over the years on topics such as Linux VPS administr...

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Why Do My Files Have Quotes in the Them When I Use 'ls'?

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Oct 20, 2021
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If you've upgraded to a recent Linux version, you may have noticed a change in the output of your ls commands. Specifically, files that have spaces or other special characters in them are quoted. For...

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Why Do My Files Have Quotes in the Them When I Use 'ls'?
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