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Protecting and Remapping Apps with NGINX Reverse Proxying

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.  In this tutorial, we'll show you how to take an app running on a port like 4440 and have it appear on its own subdomain or URL on port 80/443. Why Proxy Apps This can cause a few different issues: The client devices you typ...

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Protecting and Remapping Apps with NGINX Reverse Proxying

How to Monitor New LowEndTalk Offers with Python

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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How to Monitor New LowEndTalk Offers with Python

Getting Nerdy With Your Passwords: the Bitwarden Command Line Interface

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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 install CyberPanel on CentOS 7 VPS

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

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)

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

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

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 4

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 4

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 3

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 3

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 2

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 2

Automated Plugin Installers for VPS

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - LowEndBox appreciates your contribution as always! Be sure to check out RackNerd’s latest LowEndBox specials if you are looking for a K...

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Automated Plugin Installers for VPS

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 1

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 U...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 1

How to Keep Your Wordpress Site Secure

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - LowEndBox appreciates your contribution as always! Be sure to check out RackNerd’s latest LowEndBox specials if you are looking for a K...

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How to Keep Your Wordpress Site Secure

Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 2

In the previous tutorial, we walked through setting up Ansible on both the control (master) node and on target nodes.  Now let's look at using Ansible capabilities. Writing Playbooks One cool thing ab...

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Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 2

Resetting that Linux Root Password You Forgot

You had to type it twice. You were supposed to put it in your password safe. You were going to setup sudo but didn't get a chance. You know it's something to do with a Scooby Doo cartoon and that one...

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Resetting that Linux Root Password You Forgot

Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 1

Ansible is an automation platform that can be used for provisioning, configuration management, and deployments. It does not require deploying an agent and is suitable to manage any system that allows...

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Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 1

LowEndProtection: Homemade Raspberry Pi Security Cloud Camera Setup

If you are looking to setup some professional security cameras in your home and put the content in the cloud for remote storage/access, I would recommend looking at the wide range of solutions in the...

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LowEndProtection: Homemade Raspberry Pi Security Cloud Camera Setup

Setup a DNS Nameserver Using NSD

You can still buy little 128MB VPSes for $10-15 per year and they are perfect for serving DNS.  A nameserver does not take much memory or CPU. Indeed, once it's setup, you'll probably find your namese...

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Setup a DNS Nameserver Using NSD

Keeping A (log)Watchful Eye on Your VPS With logwatch

Your logs are an invaluable source of information about what's going on inside your system and can alert you to security issues, service issues, and hardware problems.  But you are only aware of what...

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Keeping A (log)Watchful Eye on Your VPS With logwatch

Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

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. A web server is an integra...

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Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

How to Set Up Nameservers on a VPS

If you’re new here to the Low End Box community we’d like to thank you for stopping by, you have likely stopped by to find your new VPS provider, and most likely you have questions! Within the comment...

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How to Set Up Nameservers on a VPS

Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

"Dot files" are Unix configuration files that live in your home directory.  They're often used to store user-specific choices and preferences.  For example: .bash_profile is executed whenever you logi...

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Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

How to Configure Reverse Proxy with NGINX

NGINX is a light-weight web server first released in 2004 which can also be used as a reverse proxy. We have made many tutorials over NGINX at LowEndBox, and recently setup a Node.js Application, it a...

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How to Configure Reverse Proxy with NGINX
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