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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

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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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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!

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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?

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Dec 30, 2020

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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!)

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Dec 16, 2020

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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?!?

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Dec 14, 2020

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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

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Dec 09, 2020

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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

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Dec 06, 2020

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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!)

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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!

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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

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Nov 18, 2020

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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

LowEndProtection: Homemade Raspberry Pi Security Cloud Camera Setup

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Nov 14, 2020

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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...

LowEndProtection: Homemade Raspberry Pi Security Cloud Camera Setup

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

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Oct 31, 2020

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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

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Oct 27, 2020

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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

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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

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Oct 17, 2020

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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?

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Oct 04, 2020

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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

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Oct 03, 2020

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