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LowEndBoxTV: Create Your Own Self-Hosted Disposable Webmail with Inbucket

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May 01, 2021
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Services like Mailinator allow anyone to setup disposable webmail accounts for easy filtering of disposable emails. If you are hesitant to give your email to web sites or organizations because you know they're going to sign you up for mailing lists, this approach allows you an unlimited number of instantly-generated emails to preserve your sanity. Unfortunately, marketers are wise to Mailinator and many sites now disallow...

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LowEndBoxTV: Create Your Own Self-Hosted Disposable Webmail with Inbucket

Automating mysql_secure_installation in MariaDB Setup

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Apr 27, 2021
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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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Automating mysql_secure_installation in MariaDB Setup

Incremental Remote Backups Using rsnapshot

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Apr 17, 2021
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There's an old adage about backups: There are two kinds of people: people who've never lost data, and people who'll never lose data again. If you've ever experienced data loss, you will instantly beco...

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Incremental Remote Backups Using rsnapshot

How to Install ownCloud on a CentOS 8 VPS

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Apr 13, 2021
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This article was contributed by the folks at RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. If you are looking for a VPS with f...

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How to Install ownCloud on a CentOS 8 VPS

Tuning MySQL 101: The Big Things to Look At

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Apr 09, 2021
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Database tuning is an art, rather than a science. I speak as someone who's worked as a professional DBA for over 15 years and is certified in multiple commercial RDBMS techologies. There is no set of...

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Tuning MySQL 101: The Big Things to Look At

Your Own Private Videoconference: Running Jitsi Meet on Your VPS

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Apr 03, 2021
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In this tutorial, we'll show you how to setup your own private, encrypted, self-hosted video conferencing solution. You'll be able to hand out a URL (and optionally a password) to people and have them...

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Your Own Private Videoconference: Running Jitsi Meet on Your VPS

Running Your Own OpenVPN VPN Server

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Mar 14, 2021
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Setting up your own OpenVPN VPN on both server and client is very easy to do.  In this tutorial, we'll walk through setting up an OpenVPN server on a VPS you own, and then configuring Windows and macO...

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Running Your Own OpenVPN VPN Server

The Elephant in the Room: PostgreSQL 101 - Setup and How to Guide

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Mar 09, 2021
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MariaDB and PostgreSQL are the two leading SQL databases. Both adhere to many ANSI SQL standards, but these ANSI standards don't specify all behaviors. The SQL statement themselves (such as SELECT, IN...

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The Elephant in the Room: PostgreSQL 101 - Setup and How to Guide

Puffy vs. Penguin: Getting Started With OpenBSD

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Mar 02, 2021
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In this tutorial, we're going to get up and running with OpenBSD on a KVM VPS. What is OpenBSD OpenBSD is one of the three primary BSD-based operating systems. While FreeBSD focuses on x86 architectur...

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Puffy vs. Penguin: Getting Started With OpenBSD

Getting Started With the Dolphin: MySQL 101 - Full Setup and How to Guide

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Feb 25, 2021
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MariaDB and PostgreSQL are the two leading SQL databases. Both adhere to many ANSI SQL standards, but these ANSI standards don't specify all behaviors. The SQL statement themselves (such as SELECT, IN...

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Getting Started With the Dolphin: MySQL 101 - Full Setup and How to Guide

How to Fire Up Wordpress in Three Commands

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Feb 20, 2021
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Typically when you setup Wordpress, you've got to do the following: Install MySQL Run mysql_secure_installation (not strictly necessary but you should!) Create the MySQL database Create the MySQL user...

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How to Fire Up Wordpress in Three Commands

Create Your Own Internet Radio Station With Icecast

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Feb 18, 2021
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In this tutorial we'll show you how to setup your very own Internet radio station using Icecast. Icecast is a flexible, FOSS server that allows you to stream sound and music both to and from the serve...

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Create Your Own Internet Radio Station With Icecast

How To Change RDP Port on a Windows VPS

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Feb 16, 2021
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This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros from RackNerd. If you are looking for a Windows VPS, Linux VPS or even shared/reseller hosting services -- be sure to take a look at RackNerd’s latest L...

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How To Change RDP Port on a Windows VPS

How to Install and Use Redis on a Ubuntu 20.04 Server

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Feb 12, 2021
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This article was contributed by the folks at RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. If you are looking for a VPS with f...

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How to Install and Use Redis on a Ubuntu 20.04 Server

LowEndBuckets: Setting Up an Maintainable Minio

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Feb 12, 2021
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MinIO is self-hosted S3-compatible object storage.  You can set it up in minutes and your VPS will look and act just like Amazon S3 storage, compatible with many backup programs and applications.  In...

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LowEndBuckets: Setting Up an Maintainable Minio

How to Set Up SSH Keys on CentOS 8

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Feb 08, 2021
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Secure Shell, or SSH, is an encrypted protocol that is used for logging on to your remote servers. It is meant to replace the more traditional way of using a password to provide authentication. In thi...

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How to Set Up SSH Keys on CentOS 8

Protecting and Remapping Apps with NGINX Reverse Proxying

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Feb 06, 2021
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Web services traditionally run on ports 80 (for http) and 443 (for https). Many other services run on other ports. Often times you'll install a web-based app and discover that it runs on its own port....

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Protecting and Remapping Apps with NGINX Reverse Proxying

How to Monitor New LowEndTalk Offers with Python

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Feb 04, 2021
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In 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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Getting Nerdy With Your Passwords: the Bitwarden Command Line Interface

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Feb 02, 2021
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Bitwarden is a cross-platform password manager that synchronizes between platforms (desktop, phone, tablet, etc.) and browsers.  Unlike many products, you can fully self-host Bitwarden. You might enjo...

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Getting Nerdy With Your Passwords: the Bitwarden Command Line Interface

Take Control of Your Passwords with Self-Hosted Bitwarden

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Jan 31, 2021
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There are many password managers on the market today. Most are vendor-hosted, such as LastPass, which puts you in the position of trusting the vendor's security (on both the client and storage side)....

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Take Control of Your Passwords with Self-Hosted Bitwarden

Backing Up Your VPS With b2 and rclone

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Jan 27, 2021
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b2 is cloud storage from Backblaze. Like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Storage, it provides an API for storing files in the cloud and does so at a substantially cheaper price than its co...

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Backing Up Your VPS With b2 and rclone

How to Install NGINX on a Debian 10 VPS

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Jan 26, 2021
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This article was contributed by the folks at RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. If you are looking for a VPS with f...

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How to Install NGINX on a Debian 10 VPS

What is a BGP Network? BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)

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Jan 20, 2021
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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned contributor of the hosting industry for 12+ years. Are you looking for shared hosting, colocation, reseller hosting, VPS, p...

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What is a BGP Network? BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)

Setting Up and Maintaining a Minecraft Server

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Jan 13, 2021
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In this tutorial, we'll show you how to setup a Minecraft game server on a Debian 10 VPS. But we won't stop at just starting the server but also will cover setting it up in systemd so it automatically...

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Setting Up and Maintaining a Minecraft Server

How to install CyberPanel on CentOS 7 VPS

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Jan 12, 2021
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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. If you are looking for a K...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 6

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Jan 09, 2021
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In this tutorial series, we are setting up a highly available Wordpress web site from scratch. Part 1 - Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture Part 2 - Setting Up the VPSes Part 3 - Setting Up...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 6

5 Common Uses for a LowEndBox (Cheap VPS)

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Jan 07, 2021
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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned contributor of the hosting industry for 12+ years. Consider checking out all of the KVM offers recently posted on LwoEndBox...

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5 Common Uses for a LowEndBox (Cheap VPS)

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 5

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Jan 06, 2021
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In this tutorial series, we are setting up a highly available Wordpress web site from scratch. Part 1 - Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture Part 2 - Setting Up the VPSes Part 3 - Setting Up...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 5
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