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Enjoy This Index of Thousands of FREE Programming Books! Python, Rust, Javascript, Java, C#, C++, You Name It!

Looking to learn a new programming language, or polish skills in one you already know? Then you'll want to bookmark this fantastic GitHub resource.

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Enjoy This Index of Thousands of FREE Programming Books!  Python, Rust, Javascript, Java, C#, C++, You Name It!

POLL: Which PHP Frameworks Are You Using in 2023?

It's 2023 and by some measures, 77% of all web sites are powered by PHP.  I'm not sure it's quite that high, though if you think about every Wordpress site, maybe... I've been coding a small-volume AP...

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POLL: Which PHP Frameworks Are You Using in 2023?

PHP 7 Is Officially Dead

As of today, PHP 7.4 is end of life, which means the PHP 7 version is now officially retired. Some distributions will backport security patches, but really, it's time to move on.

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PHP 7 Is Officially Dead

Meet the Man Running His Business on a 1967 Mainframe! Plus Hugo Award Nominee Galactic Journey!

You're telling me there's a guy who runs his business on a 1967 operating system in 2022? And uses Gopher too?Yes, we are telling you that. Plus meet Hugo Award-nominated Galactic Journey and hear about their vintage mainframe experience!

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Meet the Man Running His Business on a 1967 Mainframe!  Plus Hugo Award Nominee Galactic Journey!

Updating A Free Udemy Bootstrap Course On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Low End Box recently published A Beginner’s Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy’s Free Courses! The second of the two Udemy courses discussed in that post was Create a Members Only Blog using PHP, MySQL,...

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Updating A Free Udemy Bootstrap Course On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

A Beginner's Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy's Free Courses!

Udemy recently has been featured both here on Low End Box and on Low End Talk. Also, on September 20, 2021, Low End Box previously featured Low End Talk's Udemy thread. Low End Talk's Udemy thread has...

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A Beginner's Quick Glance At Two Of Udemy's Free Courses!

Free Udemy Courses! Our Community Resource Just Keeps Going

A while back, we alerted you to a thread on LowEndTalk where community member - and now moderator! - @Arkas shared free courses from Udemy. That thread was started in September and the community is st...

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Free Udemy Courses!  Our Community Resource Just Keeps Going

C# Gaining in Popularity According to TIOBE; Python, C, and Java Still Lead

The most recent TIOBE index shows C# gaining significantly in popularity over the last 5 years. "If we compare the current TIOBE index rankings to 1 year ago (May 2021), C# is gaining most popular of...

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C# Gaining in Popularity According to TIOBE; Python, C, and Java Still Lead

RackNerd Giveaway Video #2 Now on LowEndBoxTV: How to Get Free Udemy Courses!

Would you like some awesome technical education for free? Who wouldn't! Well-known education provider Udemy periodically offers many of their courses for free and LowEndTalk has a thread dedicated to...

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RackNerd Giveaway Video #2 Now on LowEndBoxTV: How to Get Free Udemy Courses!

Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

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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Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

How to install PHP 7.4 with Nginx and Apache on Ubuntu

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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How to install PHP 7.4 with Nginx and Apache on Ubuntu

An Anagram of Stable: Interview with Paul Phillips, President of Blesta

We continue our interview series with a great conversation with Paul Phillips, president of Blesta!  Tons of interesting insights in this one, including the founder's background in the dial-up ISP ind...

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An Anagram of Stable: Interview with Paul Phillips, President of Blesta

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

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

LowEndProtection: Homemade Raspberry Pi Security Cloud Camera Setup

If you are looking to setup some professional security cameras in your home and put the content in the cloud for remote storage/access, I would recommend looking at the wide range of solutions in the...

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LowEndProtection: Homemade Raspberry Pi Security Cloud Camera Setup

LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack, which includes A...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

Welcome to the last installment in the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series! In this article we are going to turn our LAMP server into a LEMP server by removing Apache and in...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 6: Moving to NGINX

LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the LEMP stack on your VPS/LowEndBox, running Debian 9. LEMP stands for Linux Nginx MySQL PHP, and is a lightweight variation of the LAMP stack...

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LEMP Stack Installation on Debian 9

How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 18.04

Moodle is an open source Learning Management System or LMS.  It hails as the worlds most popular learning platform with over 153M users worldwide.  Moodle is consumable in 3 basic hosted varieties: DI...

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How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 18.04

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis

In the previous CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorials, we configured a LAMP stack, secured it with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and installed WordPress with WP-CLI. Here in Part 5 we're going to up our ga...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 5: Speeding up WordPress with Redis

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

Welcome to the fourth installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series.In Part 1 and Part 2 we configured a LAMP server with PHP-FPM running PHP 7.3 and a modern versi...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 4: WordPress and wp-cli

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

Welcome to the third installment of the CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained series. This tutorial builds on the work done in Part 1 and Part 2, so if you haven't checked them out,...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial Part 3: Let's Encrypt SSL

Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

With this tutorial, you will be able to install and secure phpMyAdmin, the most popular program for accessing MySQL and MariaDB databases on Internet servers. What We Are Going To Cover Installing the...

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Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]

In Part 1 of this Tutorial, we discussed why we decided to build a LAMP server instead of getting one pre-configured via a control panel such as cPanel or Virtualmin. We configured Remi's repository f...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 2]

CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]

Welcome to another LowEndBox Linux tutorial! In this post we're going to design and configure a high performance server that will allow you to run multiple websites using the latest software available...

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CentOS 7 LAMP Server Tutorial: Modernized and Explained [Part 1]

Set Up And Configure Postfix E-Mail Server with Dovecot On Ubuntu 16.04

Set Up And Configure Postfix E-Mail Server with Dovecot With this tutorial, we assume that you have already installed Postfix, an open-source mail transfer agent. After that, we install and configure...

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Set Up And Configure Postfix E-Mail Server with Dovecot On Ubuntu 16.04

How To Install Laravel on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

How To Install Laravel on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS With this tutorial, you will start from a clean Ubuntu 16.04 install, set it up to run Laravel, and end up with a demo Laravel application installed. Other a...

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How To Install Laravel on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

How To Install CakePHP On Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

How To Install CakePHP On a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS With this tutorial, you will be able to create a CakePHP environment from scratch, define a database, and automatically generate a working web app. You wil...

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How To Install CakePHP On Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

LEMP Stack installation on Centos 7

What is a LEMP STACK? Linux an open source operating, is most popular OS among web hosting providers. For successfully hosting a website on a Linux server we need four important software components i....

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LEMP Stack installation on Centos 7

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