Reverse DNS: What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing? No, But…
Do you need to setup reverse DNS for your VPSes? Probably not. But you might.
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Own a Domain? Roll Your Own Dynamic DNS With the Porkbun API
If you want to connect to your home or serve something from home, you probably run into the fact that your home IP can change at any time. Mine is static for months and months, but can change at a moment's notice. There are various dynamic DNS services where you have a client running on your router or PC, but that's not the DIY way. Let's use the Porkbun API instead,.
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Before You Click ‘Buy’ on That Hosting Deal, Read This Checklist And Avoid the #1 Mistake People Make!
We've all done it: seen some incredible offer that checks a couple of our desire boxes and done a speed run through purchasing...only to end up with a system that doesn't meet our needs because we made assumptions. Be smart and double-check the details before signing up!
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NSD Tutorial Updated for 2024: Now With Zone Transfers!
I'm updating our guide to running an NSD authoritative DNS server to do proper zone transfers, like I showed you in the YouTube video tutorial. We go from scratch to having 2 redundant DNS servers in this howto.
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Setup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 7: Round-Robin DNS, Let’s Encrypt, & Conclusion
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. We're at the final part and now we're going to wrap up with round-robin DNS, Let's Encrypt, and a test of the HA setup.
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Setup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 6: MariaDB Multi-Master
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part six, we're setting up MariaDB multi-master replication using Galera.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.
Read More about Setup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 5: WordPress InstallSetup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 4: Gluster
Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part three, we'll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part two, we'll step through provisioning these VMs at Hetzner.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part one, we're covering some background, design considerations, and architecture.
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AlexHost has a new FREE DNS offering. Looks pretty nice and quite generous. Read up and try it out!
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Surveying the Global Internet Landscape: Dataplane.org
Meet the group that watches the Internet and provides fascinating insights into the global internetwork - as well as the raw data so you can make your own insights. Dataplane is doing very cool work and is a fun site to learn from.
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Command-Line DNS: Using the Porkbun API in Shell Scripts
Did you know you can control your Porkbun-hosted DNS from a shell script? Here's an example of using the Porkbun API with curl to create a DNS record, and links to more things you can do with their full-featured and oddly satisfying API.
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Setup Odoo? Swap out Slack? Create Plugins for Python? Dynamic DNS? We’ve Got the Tutorials!
Want to setup OpenLiteSpeed on Oracle Cloud arm instances? Need to transfer data between Telegram and your VPS? Want to configure your VPN to exit fast TOR nodes? Check out LowEndTalk's tutorials!
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What Happens When Your Site’s DNS Goes Down?
SPOILER ALERT: It isn't pretty. When DNS becomes unreachable your website will experience downtime. Read more to see what I learned after a recent 9 hour outage to one of my websites.
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Interview with Phillip, Support Manager at Porkbun!
I moved my domains over to Porkbun a while ago. Excited to read this! -raindog308 Oink! Porkbun is great! Way beyond great! Unbelievably great! People will think I'm crazy, head over heels in love w...
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Using Free Dynamic DNS with afraid.org
Sometimes when I'm on the road, I want to connect to something at home. To do that, I need to know my home IP, which changes periodically. There are a couple ways I could accomplish this, but the me...
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How to Run Your Own Top-Level Domain…for FREE!
Anyone can register a .com or a .org, but what if you could run your own top-level domain? Why have server1.mydomain.com when you could just have server1.mydomain? And why my-domain? Why not use .appl...
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Bunny.net Introduces BunnyDNS!
The community's favorite CDN provider, Bunny.net, has introduced BunnyDNS. So for 99% of us, it's another option for DNS hosting, and because it's Bunny and they have a premium CDN network through the...
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Bruce Buffer is EXCITED About a LowEndBox Announcement! (Weekend Update for June 12, 2021)
This week we saw some awesome cheap dedi deals, some great tutorials on DNS and chattr, cheap VPS in India, plus an announcement that got Bruce Buffer pretty excited. All this and more in the LowEndB...
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LowEndBoxTV: Your Own Self-Hosted DNS Using NSD
If you've wanted to run your own DNS server but were a bit intimidated by BIND, this is the video for you. We take you through installing and configuring a 2-node DNS server setup using NSD, including...
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Setup a DNS Nameserver Using NSD
You can still buy little 128MB VPSes for $10-15 per year and they are perfect for serving DNS. A nameserver does not take much memory or CPU. Indeed, once it's setup, you'll probably find your namese...
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How to Set Up Nameservers on a VPS
If you’re new here to the Low End Box community we’d like to thank you for stopping by, you have likely stopped by to find your new VPS provider, and most likely you have questions! Within the comment...
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Metahuman VPN – VPN Offers for Low End Box – starting at $1 a month!
MetaHuman recently contacted us with special sale prices for the LEB community. This on their VPN services, with one month free on the smaller plan listed below. On both plans, their discounts are val...
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How To Create a DNS Server On Ubuntu 18.04
The DNS or Domain Name System is the distributed database that allows zone records, such as IP addresses, to be associated with domain names. When a computer, such as your laptop or phone, needs to co...
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The DNS or Domain Name System is the distributed database that allows zone records, such as IP addresses, to be associated with domain names. When a computer, such as your laptop or phone, needs to co...
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The DNS or Domain Name System is the distributed database that allows zone records, such as IP addresses, to be associated with domain names. When a computer, such as your laptop or phone, needs to co...
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