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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...

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

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...

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,...

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

Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

Mar 25, 2021

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...

Poll Results: What are Your CentOS Plans?

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

Mar 13, 2021

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...

How to Fire Up WordPress in Three Commands

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...

How to Fire Up WordPress in Three Commands

LowEndBuckets: Setting Up an Maintainable Minio

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...

LowEndBuckets: Setting Up an Maintainable Minio

Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

Feb 11, 2021

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...

Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

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

Feb 03, 2021

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...

Feb 02, 2021

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...

Jan 31, 2021

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)....

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!)

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...

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!

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...

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...

Resetting that Linux Root Password You Forgot

Dec 05, 2020

You had to type it twice. You were supposed to put it in your password safe. You were going to setup sudo but didn't get a chance. You know it's something to do with a Scooby Doo cartoon and that one...

Resetting that Linux Root Password You Forgot

Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

Jon Biloh

Oct 22, 2020

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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. A web server is an integra...

Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

Oct 13, 2020

"Dot files" are Unix configuration files that live in your home directory. They're often used to store user-specific choices and preferences. For example: .bash_profile is executed whenever you logi...

Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

How to Setup a Browser-Based Desktop with a Single Script

Aug 20, 2020

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In August 2020, @dedipromo posted a neat script on LowEndTalk that he'd developed. The script sets up Guacamole, Nginx, the xfce4 desktop GUI, Firefox, VNC, and Let's Encrypt. After running it, you...

How to Setup a Browser-Based Desktop with a Single Script

How to Run a TOR Node on Your VPS

Aug 13, 2020

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TOR (The Onion Router) is FOSS software to allow onion routing. It is designed to defeat traffic analysis. In this tutorial, we'll talk about the three kinds of routers you can run to contribute to th...

Hosterlabs – Windows KVM VPS hosted in Canada from just $4.99/month with 2GB RAM!

Jon Biloh

Jul 27, 2020

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Jacobo from Hosterlabs submitted their first exclusive offer to LowEndBox a few weeks ago and we are excited to share it with you today. As we recommend with all first-time providers to be published o...

Hosterlabs – Windows KVM VPS hosted in Canada from just $4.99/month with 2GB RAM!

cPanel Reseller Hosting – What’s new? The before and after!

Jon Biloh

May 09, 2020

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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned and knowledgeable contributor of the hosting industry for 12+ years. What is Reseller Hosting? Reseller Hosting is a form...

cPanel Reseller Hosting – What’s new? The before and after!

HostNOC – Dedicated VPN offer for $4.99 a month! Secure, Safe and Private!

Mar 09, 2020

HostNoc sent in an offer on a Dedicated VPN service. This is for the sale price of $4.99 a month. A single HOSTNOC Dedicated VPN account can help you secure up to 5 devices, such as routers, smartphon...

HostNOC – Dedicated VPN offer for $4.99 a month! Secure, Safe and Private!

Host IT Smart – VPS Hosting starting from $5/month out of Las Vegas, Nevada!

Feb 15, 2020

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Host IT Smart has sent in some VPS offers they wanted to promote to the community. These are OpenVZ plans that you can configure and add features as needed. Each plan also comes with 1 dedicated IP in...

Host IT Smart – VPS Hosting starting from $5/month out of Las Vegas, Nevada!

Genesis Hosting Solutions – Exclusive offer for LEB readers only! 15% off VM’s for the first month or year!

Feb 14, 2020

Genesis Hosting Solutions has recently contacted us offering LowEndBox users a special promotion of 15% off the first month or year for new sign-ups only, that use promo code LEBGVM2020 for Genesis VM...

Genesis Hosting Solutions – Exclusive offer for LEB readers only! 15% off VM’s for the first month or year!

Frequent Networks – VPS Plans from small plan starting at $1/month and more!

Feb 10, 2020

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Editor's note: As of 2/22/2020 this website is not resolving and therefore the host may be deadpooled. We are pulling the order links down as result. Proceed with caution. Frequent Networks has reach...

Frequent Networks – VPS Plans from small plan starting at $1/month and more!

Evolution Host – Unique offer for LEB! Free Enterprise grade VPS – For those who qualify

Jan 20, 2020

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Evolution Host has reached out to provide a unique opportunity. They are offering a free enterprise grade VPS to those in the LowEndBox community that have a relatively popular website. While there is...

Evolution Host – Unique offer for LEB! Free Enterprise grade VPS – For those who qualify

ZetServers – Unmetered VPS Plans, out of Romania datacenter location, starting at €5/mo!