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" though it may have other uses. For example, if you need to audit what staff are doing or if you've got third parties accessing your system. Configuring Email We don't need to be able to receive mail, but we do need to be able to...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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