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...

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...

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...

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

How to Install ownCloud on a CentOS 8 VPS

Jon Biloh

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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

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...

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

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...

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

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Mar 19, 2021

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Providers: Partner with LowEndBox!

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Mar 09, 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...

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

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...

How to Fire Up WordPress in Three Commands

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...

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...

LowEndBuckets: Setting Up an Maintainable Minio

How to Set Up SSH Keys on CentOS 8

Jon Biloh

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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...

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

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Feb 07, 2021

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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...

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....

Vulnerability in Debian 10 SolusVM Templates – You Need to Take Action

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Feb 03, 2021

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SolusVM is a popular virtualization management solution used by many VPS providers. It's a familiar control panel for end users, who use it to setup their VPSes. Most providers offer templates, whic...

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...

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)....

Take Control of Your Passwords with Self-Hosted Bitwarden

The Problem with Benchmarks

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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!

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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

Jon Biloh

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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

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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...

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

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

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Jan 05, 2021

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