Every patch carries a risk. How can you quickly revert back if you have an issue. In Proxmox and other VM systems, you can use snapshots...thought there's a catch.
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If your iPhone is stolen and the thief has observed your passcode, your digital life could be turned upside down. However, you can protect yourself with recent mobile OS biometric options.
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ConfigServer Firewall (CSF) is no more. cPanel has noticed this and decided to pick up maintenance. And probably not much more.
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Most to-do management systems are highly opinionated. The specifics of what you need to get done are what you put into it, but how you track those tasks and organize them is within the paradigm presented by the application. Other systems present you with a wide variety of tools and it's up to you to design how the system works. Reminders (and many others) are more toolkit-y. Here's some guidelines on how to use all the features.
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Hello again, SoftShellWeb! They're a UK-based hosting provider that we've been happy to feature many times in the past. They've recently expanded in Los Angeles, California, and are have some special offers based in their new geography.
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On the spectrum between speculation to prediction to guarantee, these are definitely towards the left end. The hosting industry has a special talent for making fools of us all (usually right after you prepay for three years). Here are five bets for what 2026 will look like.
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Satellites crashing to Earth. Providers expanding and deadpooling. Everyone getting sick of AI. And the launch of ServerVerify. What a year!
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One of my all-time favorite posts on LowEndBox - indeed, maybe on any site -is the seminal article "Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS". 16 years later, is it archaic? No.
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If you run a hosting company (or any subscription-ish online service), you may be running WHMCS. And you probably hate it. There's a FOSS alternative on the horizon.
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Provider says Virtualizor caused a breach. Virtualizor says no way. Providers says "video incoming..." Aaaaaaand...we're still waiting.
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As you all know, as soon as AI gets a single tick past human intelligence, it's going to take over the world and exterminate homo sapiens. At least, that's what a lot of people assume. Will that happen? Your guess is as good as Sam Altman's. Meanwhile, we have two confirmed victims of AI, both of which are household names in the IT community.
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Provider says Virtualizor caused a breach. Virtualizor says no way. Providers says "video incoming..."
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OpenBSD 7.8 is out. Some new features and a beautiful new graphic installer...just kidding.
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It's Diwali season!vvThis festival, often called the “Festival of Lights,” celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil. It's celebrated by millions of people and dates back over 2,000 years. HostNamaste is celebrating with some special offers for our readers!
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RackNerd, a provider well recognized within the LowEndBox & LowEndTalk community for its consistent growth and customer-first approach, has just announced another expansion! This time bringing their popular cPanel Shared and Reseller Hosting services to the New York City area. Known for their frequent infrastructure rollouts and global footprint, RackNerd is now delivering on requests for an East Coast US shared/reseller hosting option.
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Skhron has a great offer in Stockholm, Sweden location with UNMETERED bandwidth on an IPv6-only VPS, starting at only €8.64/Year!
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Hell has finally frozen over. ColoCrossing has enabled IPv6 on all services!
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If you’ve ever relied on public pastebin services to share code snippets, logs, or sensitive configurations, you’ve probably worried about privacy and longevity. Public pastebins can delete content at any time, expose data to unwanted eyes, or fail to give you fine-grained control over who sees what. And what if they get hacked? Even if you're anonymous, logs and other data could possibly trace things back to you. And if you're stored anything sensitive there, they could be exposed. The good news is that you can easily set up your own self-hosted Pastebin. That's the LowEnd DIY way!
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In the RPM family tree, you've got several high quality distributions to choose from: RedHat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux. They're very similar. Which one is right for you?
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xposing port 22 to the internet invites bots and brute-force attacks. There are different ways to prevent this: changing your SSH port or implementing fail2ban. There's also port knocking, which we'll implement using knockd and the knock client.
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If you're a sysadmin - and if you've got a VPS, you are - how do you learn about new security threats?
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What the heck is BGP and why should you care? Is it relevant to your day-to-day computing? Yes, but it may be a bit more involved than you need.
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Should your change your Windows RDP port? In LowEndBox's opinion, yes. Let's discuss why, and how to do it.
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It'd be heartbreaking to find your NAS device compromised by ransomware. Here's some ways to prevent that from happening.
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Hostiger has a great offer for us! They've been sharing offers with us for over four years, and they've always brought great value. These deals are in Istanbul and start at only $2.49/month!
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Yesterday we had a $10/year offer...today we have a $7/year deal! Wow and double wow. check out this deal for VeloxMedia.
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Debian 13 "Trixie" will be released in less than 48 hours! Let's see what's new.
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