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

raindog308
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May 23, 2021
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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-robin DNS. In this, the final episode of the series, we enable round-robin DNS and test our setup. What happens if we take down node #1? What about node taking down node #2? Does the user's browser correctly switch nodes? Find o...

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

LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 22, 2021

raindog308
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May 22, 2021
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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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LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 22, 2021

Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 5: Configuring OCFS2 Oracle Cluster Filesystem

raindog308
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May 21, 2021
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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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Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 5: Configuring OCFS2 Oracle Cluster Filesystem

Instant Reactions to Filesystem Events with inotify

raindog308
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May 20, 2021
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The ability to run programs automatically is one of the great liberating powers of computers. In Unix, it's common for users to schedule jobs using cron or at (or with systemd, timers). But what if yo...

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Instant Reactions to Filesystem Events with inotify

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 4: Configuring DRBD

raindog308
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May 17, 2021
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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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LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 4: Configuring DRBD

Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

raindog308
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May 16, 2021
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Since very early in its history, Unix systems have supported file and directory permissions. This security mechanism allow users to make their files private from other users, and for administrators to...

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Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

How to Find Files in Linux

raindog308
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May 15, 2021
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There's nothing more frustrating than knowing that a file exists on your system but not knowing where it is. It's like losing your car keys or misplacing your phone. Sometimes you'll have contextual c...

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How to Find Files in Linux

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 2: Configuring the Nodes

raindog308
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May 06, 2021
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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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LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 2: Configuring the Nodes

Patch Your Exim Installs: "21 Nails" Vulnerability

raindog308
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May 05, 2021
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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:...

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Patch Your Exim Installs:

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 1

raindog308
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May 05, 2021
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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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LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available Wordpress Site, Part 1

CWVPS: 50% OFF Linux and Windows KVM VPS Offers with Unmetered Bandwidth in 8 Locations

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May 05, 2021
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CWVPS (Cheap Windows VPS) is back on LowEndBox with an exclusive offer! This month they have two offers up for grabs, a 4GB package at $4.50/month (normally $9/month) and an 8GB package for just $8.50...

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CWVPS: 50% OFF Linux and Windows KVM VPS Offers with Unmetered Bandwidth in 8 Locations

LowEndBoxTV: CentOS...What Happened?!?

raindog308
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May 04, 2021
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CentOS, RIP...long live CentOS Stream?!? What hath IBM wrought? In this video, we break down the CentOS drama. As you can tell from the thumbnail...it isn't pretty!  You could answer the question in o...

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LowEndBoxTV: CentOS...What Happened?!?

LowEndBoxTV: How to Find That File You Lost in Linux

raindog308
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May 02, 2021
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I was editing it just a minute ago... Ever lose something on a filesystem? It can be tricky to move around directories tryin to find it. In this video, we shown you two ways to quickly find any file o...

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LowEndBoxTV: How to Find That File You Lost in Linux

HostNamaste: Good Deals, and Now Storage + Windows VPS Offers, Too! (VPS Starting at $20/Year!)

raindog308
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Apr 30, 2021
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HostNamaste has returned with some nice offers for LEB readers.  A couple highlights: 1GB OpenVZ VPS in Canada or France starting at $20/year! KVM Storage VPS offers starting at $40/year! Or get a 2GB...

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HostNamaste: Good Deals, and Now Storage + Windows VPS Offers, Too! (VPS Starting at $20/Year!)

A Group of Friends Making One of the World's Most Popular Panels: Interview with DirectAdmin's Co-Owner, Martynas Bendorius

raindog308
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Apr 28, 2021
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Our interview series has featured some of the true titans of the hosting industry.  We're very excited to interview Martynas Bendorius, one of the owners of DirectAdmin.  As one of the most popular an...

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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

Incremental Remote Backups Using rsnapshot

raindog308
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Apr 17, 2021
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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 beco...

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Incremental Remote Backups Using rsnapshot

Comment Free For All: Which Obscure Linux Distro Do You Regularly Use?

raindog308
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Apr 14, 2021
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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,...

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Comment Free For All: Which Obscure Linux Distro Do You Regularly Use?

Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

raindog308
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Mar 25, 2021
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We recently asked you what your plans were regarding CentOS.  As you may have read, CentOS is changing and we were curious how the community was going to react. The results are in!  With 270 votes, he...

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Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

LibrePlanet (the FSF Conference) One Week From Today - and it's Free (as in Beer)!

raindog308
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Mar 13, 2021
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If you don't have plans for next weekend (March 20-21), you might consider attending LibrePlanet, an annual conference held by the Free Software Foundation.  Because of COVID-19, LibrePlanet is once a...

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LibrePlanet (the FSF Conference) One Week From Today - and it's Free (as in Beer)!

How to Fire Up Wordpress in Three Commands

raindog308
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Feb 20, 2021
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Typically when you setup Wordpress, you've got to do the following: Install MySQL Run mysql_secure_installation (not strictly necessary but you should!) Create the MySQL database Create the MySQL user...

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How to Fire Up Wordpress in Three Commands

LowEndBuckets: Setting Up an Maintainable Minio

raindog308
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Feb 12, 2021
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MinIO is self-hosted S3-compatible object storage.  You can set it up in minutes and your VPS will look and act just like Amazon S3 storage, compatible with many backup programs and applications.  In...

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LowEndBuckets: Setting Up an Maintainable Minio

Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

raindog308
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Feb 11, 2021
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Recent events with SolusVM's templates bring up an age-old question: should you install from a template or from an ISO? What's the Difference? A template is provided by the provider, or more likely by...

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Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

Vulnerability in Debian 10 SolusVM Templates - You Need to Take Action

raindog308
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Feb 03, 2021
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SolusVM is a popular virtualization management solution used by many VPS providers.  It's a familiar control panel for end users, who use it to setup their VPSes.  Most providers offer templates, whic...

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Vulnerability in Debian 10 SolusVM Templates - You Need to Take Action

Getting Nerdy With Your Passwords: the Bitwarden Command Line Interface

raindog308
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Feb 02, 2021
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Bitwarden is a cross-platform password manager that synchronizes between platforms (desktop, phone, tablet, etc.) and browsers.  Unlike many products, you can fully self-host Bitwarden. You might enjo...

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Getting Nerdy With Your Passwords: the Bitwarden Command Line Interface

Take Control of Your Passwords with Self-Hosted Bitwarden

raindog308
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Jan 31, 2021
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There are many password managers on the market today. Most are vendor-hosted, such as LastPass, which puts you in the position of trusting the vendor's security (on both the client and storage side)....

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Take Control of Your Passwords with Self-Hosted Bitwarden

ArticHost has Some Professional-Grade VPSes at Great Prices! (Chicago Windows of Linux Starting at $3.99/mo!)

raindog308
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Jan 28, 2021
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Victor from ArticHost stepped up to offer us some nice VPS offers with either Windows or Linux. 2GB RAM, 60GB Storage, unmetered bandwidth on a 100Mbps line with DDoS protection for $4.99/month for Wi...

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ArticHost has Some Professional-Grade VPSes at Great Prices! (Chicago Windows of Linux Starting at $3.99/mo!)

CentOS, RHEL, and Alma: The Plot Thickens!

raindog308
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Jan 21, 2021
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IBM recently announced that CentOS was no longer going to be CentOS.  As we discussed previously, CentOS used to be downstream of RedHat Enterprise Linux and was a nearly 1:1 clone.  Now it's moving u...

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CentOS, RHEL, and Alma: The Plot Thickens!

CentOS, RIP...Long Live CentOS Stream?!?

raindog308
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Dec 14, 2020
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The CentOS project recently announced that CentOS is radically changing. Does this mean the end of the road for CentOS as we know it? RIP CentOS perhaps? Let's talk about what's new with this Linux di...

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CentOS, RIP...Long Live CentOS Stream?!?
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