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Aug 08, 2021

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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...

Get Notified via Email Whenever Someone Logs In To Your VPS

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

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Jul 27, 2021

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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...

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

How to Stiff-Arm Brutes and Protect Your Server with Fail2Ban

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Jul 20, 2021

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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...

How to Stiff-Arm Brutes and Protect Your Server with Fail2Ban

Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

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Jul 18, 2021

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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...

Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

Celebrate Black Friday in July with LosAngelesVPS’s 50% Off Sale!

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Jul 16, 2021

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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...

Celebrate Black Friday in July with LosAngelesVPS’s 50% Off Sale!

One Folder to Rule Them All: Running Dropbox Headless on Your VPS

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Jul 08, 2021

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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...

AMD Epyc OpenVZ 7 VPS in Strasbourg, France, Europe and Quebec, Canada Starting from $12/year – HostNamaste

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Jul 08, 2021

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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...

AMD Epyc OpenVZ 7 VPS in Strasbourg, France, Europe and Quebec, Canada Starting from $12/year – HostNamaste

How to use CPULimit on CentOS 7

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Jul 07, 2021

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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...

🎇 Celebrate Fourth of July with Some CloudServer Deal Fireworks! (2GB VPS for $2/mo!)🎆

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Jul 04, 2021

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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...

🎇 Celebrate Fourth of July with Some CloudServer Deal Fireworks! (2GB VPS for $2/mo!)🎆

How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

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Jun 30, 2021

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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...

How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

How to Install Nagios on a Ubuntu 20.04 VPS

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Jun 23, 2021

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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...

How to Install Nagios on a Ubuntu 20.04 VPS

How to Use the Chattr Command in Linux

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Jun 09, 2021

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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...

LowEndBoxTV: Setup WordPress in Only 3 Commands!

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Jun 02, 2021

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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...

LowEndBoxTV: Setup WordPress in Only 3 Commands!

LowEndBoxTV: Getting Started with Linode StackScripts

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May 31, 2021

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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...

LowEndBoxTV: Getting Started with Linode StackScripts

Optimism, Dedication, Persistence, and Leadership: The Hosting Industry According to Khalid Cook, Director of HostSailor

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May 25, 2021

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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...

Optimism, Dedication, Persistence, and Leadership: The Hosting Industry According to Khalid Cook, Director of HostSailor

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

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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-rob...

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

LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 22, 2021

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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...

LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 22, 2021

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

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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...

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

Instant Reactions to Filesystem Events with inotify

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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...

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

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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...

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

Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

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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...

Guide to Understanding File Permissions in Linux

How to Find Files in Linux

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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...

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

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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...

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

Patch Your Exim Installs: “21 Nails” Vulnerability

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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:...

Patch Your Exim Installs: “21 Nails” Vulnerability

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available WordPress Site, Part 1

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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...

LowEndBoxTV: Building a Highly Available WordPress Site, Part 1

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