This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Linux VPS, Ryzen VPS, Windows VPS, or shared and reseller hosting services, be sure to take a look at RackNerd’s latest special offers here. What is DirectAdmin? DirectAdmin is a web hosting control panel software, and can be c...
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The ability to run programs automatically is one of the great liberating powers of computers. In Unix, it's common for users to schedule jobs using cron or at (or with systemd, timers). But what if yo...
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Lots of people want to automate their system setup, and this is frequently done by either using the provider's new VM hooks to run a script at setup time or later using something like Ansible. If you...
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Read MoreIn July 2020, there was a discussion on LowEndTalk about how to monitor new offers on LET. Several solutions were posted, but I think the easiest is to parse LET's RSS feed. In this tutorial, we'll...
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