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Tutorial - The LowEndCluster - Part 2

May 03, 2015

Two weeks have passed and it's time for the second part of the LowEndCluster tutorial series! This time around I'm going to focus on setting up the web nodes, which we will later tie together with a shared filesystem in order to make them really redundant. Last time I mentioned I'd be using Apache for the web nodes. Even though I am a big Apache fanboy and I honestly believe there is a lot of use for it (plus I like the c...

Editorial: review of free web hosting panels

mpkossen

Mar 30, 2015

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This week we're featuring something special contributed by LowEndTalk member @jvnadr! It's an extensive comparison of some of the most popular or well-known free web hosting panels. It'd like to than...

Editorial: review of free web hosting panels

BlueVM - Three quarterly offers starting at $2.55 for 256MB in 6 US locations

mpkossen

Oct 14, 2014

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Johnston, from BlueVM, has sent in these three offers for 66% off. These offers are exclusive to LowEndBox.com and all feature their own panel: Feathur. BLUE1 256MB RAM 256MB vSwap 1 CPU core 10GB dis...

BlueVM - Three quarterly offers starting at $2.55 for 256MB in 6 US locations

BlueVM - $4.99/month or $23.99/semi-annually 1GB OpenVZ VPS in six US locations

mpkossen

Jul 18, 2014

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BlueVM is back one again with a special offer for LowEndBox readers. These offers all feature their own panel: Feathur. Feathur is an Open Source (AGPL V3.0) control panel for OpenVZ and KVM and is av...

BlueVM - $4.99/month or $23.99/semi-annually 1GB OpenVZ VPS in six US locations

BlueVM - 4 anniversary offers starting at $12.99/year in six locations across the USA

mpkossen

May 16, 2014

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BlueVM celebreate their 3rd anniversary today, for which Justin has sent in four special anniversary offers. These offers are exclusive to LowEndBox.com and all feature their own panel: Feathur. Feath...

BlueVM - 4 anniversary offers starting at $12.99/year in six locations across the USA

Hukot - $4.02/month 256MB and $5.72/month 512MB KVM VPS in the Czech Republic

mpkossen

May 13, 2014

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Hukot, a company from the Czech Republic, is the next one in my series of surprise posts. They have been shared on LowEndTalk before by community member Spirit, but this time I'm putting them up here...

Hukot - $4.02/month 256MB and $5.72/month 512MB KVM VPS in the Czech Republic

ForthCloud - $5/month 512MB Virtuozzo Container in the US and the UK

mpkossen

May 05, 2014

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Andrew, from Forthcloud, sent in an e-mail with an offer for LowEndBox readers. ForthCloud was founded over a year ago and is a registered business in the state of Nevada. Their business registration...

ForthCloud - $5/month 512MB Virtuozzo Container in the US and the UK

Observing devices with Observium - Adding a device

mpkossen

Apr 05, 2014

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Last week I've introduced you to Observium and shown you how to install it. This week, it's time to add devices to Observium. In order to add a device to Observium, the device must support SNMP/have S...

Observing devices with Observium - Adding a device

BlueVM - $5.63/year 128MB, $5.63/month 1GB OpenVZ and a KVM in various locations

mpkossen

Mar 31, 2014

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Justin, from BlueVM, has sent in three special offers to us. These offers are exclusive to LowEndBox.com and all feature their own panel: Feathur. Feathur is an Open Source (AGPL V3.0) control panel f...

BlueVM - $5.63/year 128MB, $5.63/month 1GB OpenVZ and a KVM in various locations

How to setup SSH for Ubuntu or Windows

mpkossen

Feb 22, 2014

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It's been a while again, since I've posted a tutorial. I've been quite busy with a lot of things and have had a nice little vacation as well. But no worries, the tutorials are back on schedule and I'm...

BlueVM - $18/Year 512MB and $29.95/year 1GB KVM in Los Angeles or Buffalo

mpkossen

Nov 08, 2013

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Justin, from BlueVM, has sent in three very nice offers to us. These offers are exclusive to LowEndBox.com and all feature their own panel: Feathur. Feathur has a viewable/editable source, is free for...

BlueVM - $18/Year 512MB and $29.95/year 1GB KVM in Los Angeles or Buffalo

Getting started with OpenVPN (server)

mpkossen

Aug 31, 2013

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There are various ways to set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN). With the various protocols available to use for VPN and all the software out there, it's often a spider's web when you just want to se...

IPtables: IPv6 and more rules

mpkossen

Aug 17, 2013

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This is the last tutorial in a series of iptables tutorials. Last week I've shown you how to persist iptables. The week before that I gave a short introduction. I now want to finish that series with t...

IPtables Tutorial on Inserting and Deleting Rules

mpkossen

Aug 06, 2013

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This tutorial is another part in a series of a security-related tutorials. This time, I'm going to talk about IPtables. IPtables is a software firewall that can filter out certain types of traffic. Mo...

IPtables Tutorial on Inserting and Deleting Rules

Generating an SSH key and setting up SSH-agent

mpkossen

Jul 13, 2013

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A couple of weeks ago I started with the first tutorial in a series of security-related ones. This is the second tutorial in this series. Last time I spoke about SSH and sudo. As Raymii pointed out in...

Generating an SSH key and setting up SSH-agent

Server Security: How to Install Sudo and Configure SSH Server

mpkossen

Jun 29, 2013

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One of the most important aspects of running a server is a good security policy. It is also one of the things that comes last, usually. But if you don't pay attention to it up front, it's going to cos...

Server Security: How to Install Sudo and Configure SSH Server

A Days Recap: SolusVM Exploit Released, RamNode Downtime

Humza

Jun 16, 2013

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Welcome all LEBers! Today has been an unfortunate day for many hosts and indeed a shocking eye-opener for anyone using SolusVM to offer VPS' to the public. Earlier on today the website localhost.re re...

A Days Recap: SolusVM Exploit Released, RamNode Downtime

Encrypted backups with duplicity

mpkossen

May 25, 2013

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Backups are about the most important thing about managing a server. If anything happens to your server, like data loss, a customer making a mistake (and accidentally removing data) or a full-blown ser...

Community Roundup: November 2012

Liam

Dec 02, 2012

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I'm not sure what happened to Saturday, but unfortunately I didn't find the time to write this - well I wrote some but I didn't complete it alas. This is our second 'Community Roundup', I would like t...

StyleXNetworks - $1.48/Month 128MB Xen VPS in Los Angeles

Zahra

Nov 09, 2012

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Kasra from StyleXNetworks has a 50% discount offer running the LowEndTalk and LowEndBox community. Tiny Cloud VPS 128 MB RAM GUARANTEED 1GB SWAP 1 CORE (2% GUARANTEED, ALLOWED TO BURST TO 100%) 5 GB H...

StyleXNetworks - $1.48/Month 128MB Xen VPS in Los Angeles

SilverKnightTech - $39.95/Month 4GB Dedicated Server in Las Vegas

Zahra

Oct 24, 2012

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Anthony from SilverKnightTech has a dedicated server offer in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dual Xeon 5140 2 x Intel Xeon 5140 Dual Core 2.33Ghz 64Bit, VT-x Supported. 4 GB RAM 160 GB SATA Hard Drive 10Mbps Unme...

SilverKnightTech - $39.95/Month 4GB Dedicated Server in Las Vegas

Review: Hostigation 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Frank

Jul 16, 2012

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Hostigation are no newcomer to the LowEndBox scene having had several great offers over the last few years and coming in as a finalist in the past two Top Provider polls. Hostigation offer both standa...

Review: Hostigation 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Community Review: EDIS 256 MB vServer Monthly

Frank

Jul 08, 2012

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EDIS are a long time host and are one of few LEB friendly hosts that use vServer (a VM system similar to OpenVZ) and run their own panel. This means that they are very familiar with the technology and...

Community Review: EDIS 256 MB vServer Monthly

Review - Fiber Volt 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Frank

Jun 28, 2012

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Fiber Volt are a newcomer to the community but their representatives have shown themselves to be polite and helpful, leading me to do this review. After seeing the offers they posted on LET I am very...

Review - Fiber Volt 256 MB OpenVZ Monthly

Virpus - $46.41/Year 512MB OpenVZ VPS in Kansas City

LEA

Mar 17, 2011

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Via this WHT offer. Virpus, with its new motto "We virtualize servers. It's what we do. =)", is offering 15% off recurring discount on annual payments of their Basic and Enhanced VPS, from their Budge...

Virpus - $46.41/Year 512MB OpenVZ VPS in Kansas City

W2 Servers - $36/Year 512MB OpenVZ VPS

LEA

Jan 12, 2011

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Update Oct 2011 -- I know W2Servers should have been declared dead long long time ago. But their website finally stopped working on 23 September 2011. No surprises here. Another failed provider. As no...

Running Trac + Git Hosting on a Low End VPS

LEA

Aug 31, 2010

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Any user of Version Control System? When I started as a programmer back in the 90's it was RCS. Then moved to CVS when I joined my first start up. About 5 years ago I moved everything -- work projects...

Vixile - $7 256MB OpenVZ VPS Exclusive Offer

LEA

Jul 29, 2010

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Updated February 2012 -- Vixile's website has been giving errors since 25 January. Looks like the team there has done a runner. Via this offer at LowEndTalk. Caleb actually also wrote to me in email a...