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Feb 02, 2021

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...

Getting Nerdy With Your Passwords: the Bitwarden Command Line Interface

Take Control of Your Passwords with Self-Hosted Bitwarden

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)....

Take Control of Your Passwords with Self-Hosted Bitwarden

The Problem with Benchmarks

Jan 29, 2021

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Following a highly successful Black Friday/Cyber Monday on LowEndTalk/LowEndBox, providers endured a round of YABS (Yet Another Benchmark Script). Users signed up for cheap VPSes - sometimes many more...

Huge sudo Security Issue - Update Your Systems Now!

Jan 27, 2021

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News broke today of a new security vulnerability in sudo, a widely used Linux/BSD/Unix utility that allows regular users to execute commands with elevated privileges. Typically, a user may need elevat...

Huge sudo Security Issue - Update Your Systems Now!

Interview: Q&A with ServerMania Co-Founder and CMO Justin Blanchard

Jan 18, 2021

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Today we are continuing our Low End Box Interview Series, and we're thrilled to talk to Justin Blanchard, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of ServerMania. The ServerMania story is especially exc...

Interview: Q&A with ServerMania Co-Founder and CMO Justin Blanchard

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

Jan 09, 2021

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...

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

HostBastic Debuts with Shared Hosting in France Starting at $12/year!

Jan 05, 2021

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Thinking up a name for a hosting company has to be tough - so many nounhost, verbhost, nounhosting, and verbhosting names, not to mention nonsense names (you know the kind I mean). Perhaps all the go...

HostBastic Debuts with Shared Hosting in France Starting at $12/year!

Interview with Igor Seletskiy, CEO of CloudLinux on Project Lenix, CentOS Changes, and Much More!

Jan 01, 2021

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Recently, CentOS dropped the bombshell news that they would be moving upstream from RHEL, which radically changes the Linux distribution landscape. Various companies and organizations announced they...

Interview with Igor Seletskiy, CEO of CloudLinux on Project Lenix, CentOS Changes, and Much More!

Poll: Have you enjoyed our recent Tutorials?

Dec 30, 2020

Over the past year we've enhanced our efforts towards publishing high quality tutorials for common and sometimes uncommon technical problems and projects. We've covered everything from security, to Ce...

Poll: Have you enjoyed our recent Tutorials?

Cloudean Debuts with Worldwide Shared, Email, and Wordpress Hosting! (Shared as Cheap as €0.998/month!)

Dec 16, 2020

Welcome, Cloudean! This is their first offer on LEB and they're bringing us a range of shared, email, and Wordpress-focused offers. They promise in-house support, 24x7 response, painless migration,...

Cloudean Debuts with Worldwide Shared, Email, and Wordpress Hosting! (Shared as Cheap as €0.998/month!)

CentOS, RIP...Long Live CentOS Stream?!?

Dec 14, 2020

The CentOS project recently announced that CentOS is radically changing. Does this mean the end of the road for CentOS as we know it? RIP CentOS perhaps? Let's talk about what's new with this Linux di...

How to Keep Your Wordpress Site Secure

Dec 09, 2020

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...

Interview: Q&A with ServerHub CEO John Brancela on Growing with the Market

Dec 06, 2020

As we continue our Low End Box Interview Series, today we are talking to John Brancela, Founder and CEO of ServerHub, Inc., a medium-large sized IaaS, Colocation and Cloud Computing operator that has...

Interview: Q&A with ServerHub CEO John Brancela on Growing with the Market

Lions, Mammoths, and Black Friday Offers, oh my! ServaRICA is here! (4GB for $10/mo in Canada!)

Nov 30, 2020

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Remember the iPhone 4? Remember when LMFAO ruled the airwaves with "Party Rock Anthem"? Remember "Occupy Wall Street" and the last Space Shuttle Discovery mission? Then your memory goes back as lon...

Lions, Mammoths, and Black Friday Offers, oh my! ServaRICA is here! (4GB for $10/mo in Canada!)

SonicFast: 1GB for 15€/year in London with 100Gbps DDoS Protection!

Nov 26, 2020

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Sonicfast is throwing its hat in the ring for Black Friday! They last graced these pages in August 2019. For Black Friday, they're bringing you an OpenVZ 1GB for €15/year, or a 512MB KVM for €18/yea...

SonicFast: 1GB for 15€/year in London with 100Gbps DDoS Protection!

Interview: Q&A with the Founder of jsdelivr, Dmitriy Akulov

Nov 18, 2020

Our LowEndBox Interview Series has featured many interesting personalities so far and today we're excited to bring you an interview with the founder of jsdelivr, Dmitriy Akulov. This is a very cool p...

Interview: Q&A with the Founder of jsdelivr, Dmitriy Akulov

Interview: Q&A with Serveria CEO Paul Estrada on the Hosting Industry, and the Right Formula for Success

Oct 31, 2020

As we continue our Low End Box Interview Series, today we are talking to Paul Estrada, Serveria's CEO. So, let's get started with the interview! Tell me about your background and your company's histor...

Interview: Q&A with Serveria CEO Paul Estrada on the Hosting Industry, and the Right Formula for Success

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

Oct 27, 2020

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...

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

Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

Oct 22, 2020

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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. A web server is an integra...

Interview: Q&A with Dejan from BunnyCDN

Oct 17, 2020

Our LowEndBox Interview Series has featured many interesting personalities so far and today we're excited to bring you an interview with the CEO and Founder of BunnyCDN, Dejan (aka @BunnySpeed on LowE...

Provider 911: How Do I Stand Out in the Market?

Oct 04, 2020

One of the most important questions a provider can ask himself is: why should someone buy from me instead of from a competitor? In marketing, this is called differentiation. In the early days of hosti...

Provider 911: How Do I Stand Out in the Market?

Shields Up! Protecting Your Wordpress Site with Wordfence

Oct 03, 2020

Server and application security are important factors to consider when running a website -- especially a website based on Wordpress. This easy to use guide will help take you through the steps of ensu...

Shields Up! Protecting Your Wordpress Site with Wordfence

Increasing Security on Your Linux VPS

Sep 28, 2020

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The internet is the source of income for millions of people, and it could be considered one of the best creations of technology. However, with time, the internet has become vulnerable to security thre...

Generating and Using SSH Keys, Part 3

Sep 26, 2020

In previous tutorials in this series, we went over generating SSH keys and how to use them. We'll wrap up the series by showing you how to turn off password authentication on your server. Why Configu...

How to secure your WordPress Site

Sep 23, 2020

WordPress is a powerful and open-source CMS based on PHP. It is no doubt that it is one of the most used platform for a blog, e-commerce stores, portfolios, and much more. According to some sources, W...

What is 2-Factor Authentication?

Sep 21, 2020