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-robin DNS. In this episode, we setup Debian and install software on the nodes. How to Setup a Highly Available WordPress Site From Scratch, Part 2 Part […]
LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available WordPress Site, Part 2: Configuring the Nodes
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May 6, 2021 @ 11:32 pm, by raindog308Patch Your Exim Installs: “21 Nails” Vulnerability
Thanks to LowEndTalk administrator emeritus @jar for alerting the community to a range of exim vulnerabilities published by Qualys. There is a family of both local and remote vulnerabilities. tl;dr: patch your exim installs. 4.94.2 is the minimum you should be running. Not all distros don’t updates available yet.
LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available WordPress Site, Part 1
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CWVPS: 50% OFF Linux and Windows KVM VPS Offers with Unmetered Bandwidth in 8 Locations
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LowEndBoxTV: CentOS…What Happened?!?
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LowEndBoxTV: How to Find That File You Lost in Linux
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HostNamaste: Good Deals, and Now Storage + Windows VPS Offers, Too! (VPS Starting at $20/Year!)
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A Group of Friends Making One of the World’s Most Popular Panels: Interview with DirectAdmin’s Co-Owner, Martynas Bendorius
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Incremental Remote Backups Using rsnapshot
There’s an old adage about backups: There are two kinds of people: people who’ve never lost data, and people who’ll never lose data again. If you’ve ever experienced data loss, you will instantly become passionate about backups. To prevent bad experiences with your data, you want backups that are comprehensive, manageable, versioned, automated, and secure. […]
Comment Free For All: Which Obscure Linux Distro Do You Regularly Use?
Most folks use Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, with the occasional pro using RedHat or the hipster using Arch. But there are over 1,000 Linux distros! Not all are suitable for running on a VPS of course, and some are quite specialized. But the question we’re throwing out to community is: Which obscure Linux distro do […]