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Certbun, An Easier Alternative To Certbot, From Porkbun

Low End Box and @Not_Oles thank Porkbun and Eddie Barksdale for providing this guest post about Certbun, Porkbun's alternative to Certbot. "Why should I use Certbun rather than Certbot," you ask? @Not_Oles answers, "Porkbun support is for sure the best!" Every site should have an SSL certificate, but if you’ve ever used Certbot to generate a free Let’s Encrypt certificate, you know that it can be clunky at best. That’s wh...

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Certbun, An Easier Alternative To Certbot, From Porkbun

500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming! Well, Maybe. Or Maybe Not.

The idea of changing up the IPv4 protocols to free up reserved ranges is not new.  Heck, I posted about it on LowEndTalk at least ten years ago and it wasn't new then. The idea is simple: when IPv4 wa...

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500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming!  Well, Maybe.  Or Maybe Not.

The Wrong Way to Use Let's Encrypt on a Private Network

I've been working on a small app written in golang, and I'd like my local-area network connections to the golang-embedded webserver to be over https.  Most of the clients are going to be scripts runni...

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The Wrong Way to Use Let's Encrypt on a Private Network

Enjoy a 50% Off SSL Certificate Sale from HostingB2B

HostingB2B last gave us an offer back on July 12, 2021.  Now they've returned with a deal on SSL certificates. HostingB2B announces the upgrade of the partnership with GoGetSSL to Platinum Partners an...

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Enjoy a 50% Off SSL Certificate Sale from HostingB2B

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 6: Does It Work?!?

In this series, we take you from bare-metal to a highly-available Wordpress site, load-balanced over two nodes and resistant to VPS failures using MariaDB multi-master replication, DRBD, and round-rob...

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LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 6: Does It Work?!?

How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

The Apache is a web server developed by Apache Foundation in 1995. Apache is the one of the most widely used and robust web server. Apache web server requires a valid SSL certificate to enable web sec...

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How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a Debian 9 VPS

In this tutorial, we will create a simple Node.js application and put it into a production ready environment on Debian 9, "Stretch". To make the app accessible from your browser, we'll use Nginx as a...

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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a Debian 9 VPS

LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack, which includes A...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and in...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox, running Debian 9. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis

In the previous CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorials, we configured a LAMP stack, secured it with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and installed WordPress with WP-CLI. Here in Part 5 we're going to up our ga...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

Welcome to the fourth installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series.In Part 1 and Part 2 we configured a LAMP server with PHP-FPM running PHP 7.3 and a modern versi...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

Welcome to the third installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series. This tutorial builds on the work done in Part 1 and Part 2, so if you haven't checked them out,...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

How to Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt Ubuntu 16.04

  In this tutorial, we will examine how to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt for the Ubuntu 16.04 operating system.   We will first examine an overview of Let's Encrypt, certificate authorities, a...

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How to Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt Ubuntu 16.04

How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a CentOS 7 VPS

In this tutorial, we will create a simple Node.js application and put it into a production ready environment. We are going to install and use the following pieces of software: Nginx as a reverse proxy...

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How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on a CentOS 7 VPS

Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 1

In the professional Linux web hosting world, cPanel rules as king. That's not necessarily a bad thing! cPanel is rich in features and is for the most part stable and reliable. But it's also completely...

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Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 1

Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 2

In Part 1 of our tutorial, we installed Virtualmin on CentOS 7 and did some basic configuration. In this second half, we're going to dive deep into the Linux configuration files to optimize our new se...

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Configuring Virtualmin on CentOS 7 for Website Hosting: Part 2

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