If you frequently setup new VPSes or re-initialize them, you may find yourself typing the same commands over and over. There are various technologies to alleviate these hassles and get your environment consistently setup every time without all the manual work. Big Boy Solutions If you're managing many systems, you may wish to invest in Ansible or some other configuration management tool such as Puppet, Chef, or Salt. If y...
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There are a number of ways you can restrict access to your VPS. Passwords (specifically, good passwords) is the most basic method. Restricting access to ssh keys only is better. You can use Google Aut...
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Periodically I've had auditors come to me and say "can you tell me what this user on this system did between such-and-such dates/times" and my answer is usually no. By default, Linux systems don't log...
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When IBM announced that they were changing CentOS and introducing "CentOS Stream," one minor detail was a sharply curtailed lifespan for CentOS 8, the final "Classic" version. IBM has announced that...
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Training powerhouse Udemy frequently releases free courses for limited time periods. Obviously, their hope is that you'll try out their instruction, like what you see, and then purchase additional cou...
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Galera is MariaDB's multi-master replication technology which makes it a snap to setup highly-available multi-node MariaDB clusters. In this tutorial we'll walk through setting up a cluster and also...
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Hostigger is now Hostiger and they're bringing some awesome offers: Get a 2GB KVM with 40GB of disk and 2TB of traffic for only $4.99/month! Take 30% off if you buy annually! Larger sizes available to...
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We last saw CloudServer back on July 4, 2021. Now they're back with some more very cool offers for cheap VPS systems - either Linux or Windows: Get a 2GB Linux KVM for only $4/mo (or $1.99/mo on an a...
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Debian 11, code-named Bullseye, was released today. If it's not already available on your favorite VM provider's panel, I suggest you own a thread on LowEndTalk and complain bitterly. Major new featu...
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Have you used a Synology NAS at home? Do you want one in the cloud? For those unfamiliar, Synology makes a line of inexpensive NAS systems aimed at both the home and small business markets. They have...
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In this tutorial we'll show you how to configure your VPS so that every time someone logs in, you receive an email alerting you to this fact. This is kind of a "lowend intrusion detection system" thou...
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Hello, Boomer.Host! Some hosts are deadly serious when it comes to their names and some prefer a bit of humor and I don't have to tell you which category Boomer.Host falls into. However the proprieto...
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Bruce force attacks are attempts to guess common passwords by repeatedly trying to login to your server. SSH is the most common target but FTP, IMAP, POP3, and other password-based systems can be tar...
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Tarsnap is a cloud backup company that emphasize strong cryptography. It's the brainchild of Dr. Colin Percival, former FreeBSD security officer. Its motto is "online backups for the truly paranoid" a...
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LosAngelesVPS is back! We last had them on back on February 26, 2021. This time they've got some great VPS offers with their Black Friday in July offer! Get a 1GB VPS with unmetered bandwidth and 1...
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Dropbox is a folder synchronization product that takes a folder (eponymously called Dropbox) and makes sure it's identical across all devices. This folder is also available on the web and there are r...
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HostNamaste is back! We last had an offer for them on April 30, 2021. They've been around these parts for a long time and have always brought great offers for our readers. Case in point: Get a VPS fo...
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This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...
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Happy Fourth of July! LowEndBox is happy to celebrate American Independence Day with a fantastic offer from CloudServer. How fantastic? Get a 2GB Linux KVM for only $12/quarter...plus you get $12 in...
Read MoreThis article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...
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This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...
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This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...
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Installing Wordpress usually involves installing and configuring a web server, installing and configuring a database server, creating the database, granting permissions, downloading and installing Wor...
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In this video, we show you how to use StackScripts on Linode to quickly setup your VPS at deployment time. You can use StackScripts to configure the system, install software, enable services, etc. You...
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Our interview series has featured some of the true titans of the hosting industry. In this installment, we sit down with Khalid Cook, director of HostSailor. HostSailor has been a regular here on LEB...
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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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This week we had a great interview with Paul Phillips of Blesta, talked about hard times at HostSolutions, and published a number of great tutorials on Wordpress, inotify, and Linux filesystem permiss...
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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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