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Jul 08, 2021

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Dropbox is a folder synchronization product that takes a folder (eponymously called Dropbox) and makes sure it's identical across all devices. This folder is also available on the web and there are r...

How to use CPULimit on CentOS 7

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Jul 07, 2021

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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 Li...

How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

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Jun 30, 2021

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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 Li...

How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

How to Setup FTP Server with VSFTPD on CentOS 8

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Jun 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 an affordabl...

How to Setup FTP Server with VSFTPD on CentOS 8

How to Install Nagios on a Ubuntu 20.04 VPS

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Jun 23, 2021

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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 Li...

How to Install Nagios on a Ubuntu 20.04 VPS

How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 20.04

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Jun 18, 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...

How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 20.04

How to Install DirectAdmin on Debian 10

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Jun 16, 2021

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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 Li...

Guide to Free Game Server Control Panels

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Jun 10, 2021

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Hosting a game server may not be easy through a terminal, though even experienced cannot handle the game servers through Command Line Interface when hosting a large number of game servers. In this cas...

Guide to Free Game Server Control Panels

How to Use the Chattr Command in Linux

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Jun 09, 2021

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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 Li...

LowEndBoxTV: Your Own Self-Hosted DNS Using NSD

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Jun 07, 2021

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If you've wanted to run your own DNS server but were a bit intimidated by BIND, this is the video for you. We take you through installing and configuring a 2-node DNS server setup using NSD, including...

LowEndBoxTV: Your Own Self-Hosted DNS Using NSD

How to Setup Replicated Highly Available SQLite with rqlite

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Jun 03, 2021

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If you need a highly available database configuration where the loss of one node doesn't result in loss of service and changes on one node are replicated to other nodes, you would probably reach for M...

How to Setup Replicated Highly Available SQLite with rqlite

Using the imgbb.com API for Easy Command-Line Image Hosting

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May 25, 2021

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Like many of my fellow LowendTalk readers, I sometimes post images on LET and other boards. To do that, I need an image hosting service. Going through the work of logging into a web page, uploading...

Using the imgbb.com API for Easy Command-Line Image Hosting

Instant Reactions to Filesystem Events with inotify

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May 20, 2021

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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...

Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

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May 16, 2021

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Since very early in its history, Unix systems have supported file and directory permissions. This security mechanism allow users to make their files private from other users, and for administrators to...

Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

How to Find Files in Linux

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May 15, 2021

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There's nothing more frustrating than knowing that a file exists on your system but not knowing where it is. It's like losing your car keys or misplacing your phone. Sometimes you'll have contextual c...

How to Setup Secure Remote Desktops With VNC on Your VPS

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May 07, 2021

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Most of what you do with your VPS may take place either at the command line or by interacting with various web pages. But what if you need to run a desktop GUI application? That's where VNC (Virtual...

How to Setup Secure Remote Desktops With VNC on Your VPS

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 kno...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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