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An Anagram of Stable: Interview with Paul Phillips, President of Blesta

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May 19, 2021
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We continue our interview series with a great conversation with Paul Phillips, president of Blesta!  Tons of interesting insights in this one, including the founder's background in the dial-up ISP industry, where the name "Blesta" came from, and where the product is headed.  Enjoy! Where in the world are you located? We are located in Orange County, California, just a few minutes from Disneyland. Where does the name "Bles...

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An Anagram of Stable: Interview with Paul Phillips, President of Blesta

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...

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Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 15, 2021

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May 15, 2021
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Want to win some cool Star Wars prizes? Looking for a cheap Windows VPS starting at only $4.50/mo? Want shared hosting for $3/year? Want a cheap domain? Do you run exim in a state of security ignoranc...

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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...

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LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 8, 2021

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May 08, 2021
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Want to win some cool Star Wars prizes? Looking for a cheap Windows VPS starting at only $4.50/mo? Want shared hosting for $3/year? Want a cheap domain? Do you run exim in a state of security ignoranc...

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LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 8, 2021

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...

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STU Telecom is Launching an IP Reputation Service

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May 06, 2021
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Stuart Elvish from STU Telecom reached out to us to tell us a little about a new IP reputation service they're rolling out.  They submitted a nice writeup and invitation to LEB members to try out the...

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STU Telecom is Launching an IP Reputation Service

InterServer Offers Ryzen 3600X Dedis (64GB RAM + Dual NVMe Drives) in New Jersey!

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May 02, 2021
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InterServer contacted us to share an exciting Ryzen 3600X dedi offer.  A few weeks ago we interviewed Mike Larvik, their Director of Business Development.  They've been in the industry for over 22 yea...

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InterServer Offers Ryzen 3600X Dedis (64GB RAM + Dual NVMe Drives) in New Jersey!

DigitalOcean Customer Billing Data Exposed in Security Breach

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Apr 28, 2021
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DigitalOcean (DOCN) acknowledged today that it has informed some customers that DO had “confirmed an unauthorized exposure of details associated with the billing profile on your DigitalOcean account.”...

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A Group of Friends Making One of the World's Most Popular Panels: Interview with DirectAdmin's Co-Owner, Martynas Bendorius

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Apr 28, 2021
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Our interview series has featured some of the true titans of the hosting industry.  We're very excited to interview Martynas Bendorius, one of the owners of DirectAdmin.  As one of the most popular an...

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A Group of Friends Making One of the World's Most Popular Panels: Interview with DirectAdmin's Co-Owner, Martynas Bendorius

Providers: Partner with LowEndBox!

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Apr 23, 2021
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Being a provider means mastering many challenges - customer support, security, networks, and many more.  One of the most challenging is marketing.  How do you get the word out about your services?  Ho...

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Cloud Platforms, Warp Cores, and Revolutionary Software: Interview with Steve Fenton, Head of Marketing for OnApp

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Apr 20, 2021
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In this post we continue our interview series with Steve Fenton, Head of Marketing of OnApp.  OnApp recently released Cloud.net, an exciting new cloud platform - read on for more details!  You also mi...

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Cloud Platforms, Warp Cores, and Revolutionary Software: Interview with Steve Fenton, Head of Marketing for OnApp

HostBastic: For the Price of a Cup of Coffee, Host for a Year with DirectAdmin in Singapore/London/USA!

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Apr 19, 2021
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HostBastic made their first offer back January 5, 2021 and now they've returned with some DirectAdmin-based shared hosting in Singapore, London, or Eastern US starting at only £3.00/year!  That's abou...

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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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raindog308's Journeys: Secure Your Data With a Dragon at SecureDragon

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Apr 12, 2021
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A long time ago in a galaxy...well, in Florida, there was a company called BackupDragon.  They provided backup VPSes, in a time when these were not yet common.  Today, "storage VPSes" are all over the...

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WHMCS Alternatives

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Apr 07, 2021
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As you may have read yesterday, WHMCS has ended support for owned licenses.  For a lot of shops, this is a significant financial hit, given that the cost of moving to a monthly subscription is signifi...

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VPS in Moldova, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Latvia and More from Perfect Quality Hosting!

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Perfect Quality Hosting has returned to LowEndBox with another offer. They're a Russian firm that has been in business about a year and are offering service in some interesting locations: Latvia, Mold...

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VPS in Moldova, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Latvia and More from Perfect Quality Hosting!

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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10gbhosting: KVMs with 20TB of Bandwidth in London, England!

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Mar 13, 2021
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Welcome, 10gbhosting!  This is their first foray onto LowEndBox. They offer a variety of services (Linux/Windows-based shared, reseller, managed Wordpress, managed/unmanaged, and dedicated servers) an...

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10gbhosting: KVMs with 20TB of Bandwidth in London, England!

Hostigger Offers a 2GB VPS in Istanbul for Only $2.99/mo!

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Mar 11, 2021
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Hostigger is grrrrreat!  See, the name of the company says "Hundred Acres Wood" to me but their mascot looks like a mean tiger, so I think Tony the Tiger is somewhere in between. We last had an offer...

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Providers: Partner with LowEndBox!

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Being a provider means mastering many challenges - customer support, security, networks, and many more.  One of the most challenging is marketing.  How do you get the word out about your services?  Ho...

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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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How to Fire Up Wordpress in Three Commands

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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 Change RDP Port on a Windows VPS

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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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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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How to Set Up SSH Keys on CentOS 8

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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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Yet Another Mind-Blowing Offer from ServaRICA! (10GB RAM for $10/mo, or 8TB storage for $20/mo!)

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As I type up this post, I have a few rsyncs running to my ServaRICA "mammoth" 8TB file server.  It's been running like a champ since November, readily sucking down many GBs of data (I think it's about...

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Yet Another Mind-Blowing Offer from ServaRICA! (10GB RAM for $10/mo, or 8TB storage for $20/mo!)

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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