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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 4

In this tutorial series, we are setting up a highly available Wordpress web site from scratch. Part 1 - Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture Part 2 - Setting Up the VPSes Part 3 - Setting Up MariaDB Multi-Master Replication Part 4 - File Replication and Setting Up DRBD Part 5 - Setting Up OCFS2 Part 6 - Round-Robin DNS, Let's Encrypt, & Conclusion File Replication Options There are a galaxy of file replicati...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 4

Poll: Have you enjoyed our recent Tutorials?

Over the past year we've enhanced our efforts towards publishing high quality tutorials for common and sometimes uncommon technical problems and projects. We've covered everything from security, to Ce...

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Poll: Have you enjoyed our recent Tutorials?

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 3

In this tutorial series, we are setting up a highly available Wordpress web site from scratch. Part 1 - Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture Part 2 - Setting Up the VPSes Part 3 - Setting Up...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 3

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 2

In this tutorial series, we are setting up a highly available Wordpress web site from scratch. Part 1 - Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture Part 2 - Setting Up the VPSes Part 3 - Setting Up...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 2

Automated Plugin Installers for VPS

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - LowEndBox appreciates your contribution as always! Be sure to check out RackNerd’s latest LowEndBox specials if you are looking for a K...

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Automated Plugin Installers for VPS

How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 1

In this tutorial series, we are setting up a highly available Wordpress web site from scratch.  Part 1 - Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture Part 2 - Setting Up the VPSes Part 3 - Setting U...

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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, Part 1

How to Keep Your Wordpress Site Secure

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - LowEndBox appreciates your contribution as always! Be sure to check out RackNerd’s latest LowEndBox specials if you are looking for a K...

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How to Keep Your Wordpress Site Secure

Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 2

In the previous tutorial, we walked through setting up Ansible on both the control (master) node and on target nodes.  Now let's look at using Ansible capabilities. Writing Playbooks One cool thing ab...

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Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 2

Resetting that Linux Root Password You Forgot

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...

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Resetting that Linux Root Password You Forgot

Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 1

Ansible is an automation platform that can be used for provisioning, configuration management, and deployments. It does not require deploying an agent and is suitable to manage any system that allows...

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Managing Your LowEndEmpire With Ansible, Part 1

Setup a DNS Nameserver Using NSD

You can still buy little 128MB VPSes for $10-15 per year and they are perfect for serving DNS.  A nameserver does not take much memory or CPU. Indeed, once it's setup, you'll probably find your namese...

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Setup a DNS Nameserver Using NSD

Keeping A (log)Watchful Eye on Your VPS With logwatch

Your logs are an invaluable source of information about what's going on inside your system and can alert you to security issues, service issues, and hardware problems.  But you are only aware of what...

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Keeping A (log)Watchful Eye on Your VPS With logwatch

Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

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...

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Nginx vs. OpenLiteSpeed vs. Apache

Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

"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...

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Top Ten Things That Should Be In Your Dot Files

How to Configure Reverse Proxy with NGINX

NGINX is a light-weight web server first released in 2004 which can also be used as a reverse proxy. We have made many tutorials over NGINX at LowEndBox, and recently setup a Node.js Application, it a...

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How to Configure Reverse Proxy with NGINX

Shields Up! Protecting Your Wordpress Site with Wordfence

Server and application security are important factors to consider when running a website -- especially a website based on Wordpress. This easy to use guide will help take you through the steps of ensu...

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Shields Up! Protecting Your Wordpress Site with Wordfence

How to Set Up WireGuard VPN on CentOS 8

WireGuard is a modern VPN solution that runs on state-of-the-art cryptography such as the Noise protocol framework, and Curve25519. It provides a much faster experience and outperforms its competitors...

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How to Set Up WireGuard VPN on CentOS 8

Increasing Security on Your Linux VPS

The internet is the source of income for millions of people, and it could be considered one of the best creations of technology. However, with time, the internet has become vulnerable to security thre...

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Increasing Security on Your Linux VPS

Generating and Using SSH Keys, Part 3

In previous tutorials in this series, we went over generating SSH keys and how to use them.  We'll wrap up the series by showing you how to turn off password authentication on your server. Why Configu...

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Generating and Using SSH Keys, Part 3

How to Access a Windows VPS using Remote Desktop

Windows VPS’s are widely used nowadays. They can be used for numerous purposes and could be set up according to your needs. A typical scenario is to use Windows VPS as a web host for a website. This p...

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How to Access a Windows VPS using Remote Desktop

How to secure your WordPress Site

WordPress is a powerful and open-source CMS based on PHP. It is no doubt that it is one of the most used platform for a blog, e-commerce stores, portfolios, and much more. According to some sources, W...

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How to secure your WordPress Site

What is 2-Factor Authentication?

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd. If you are looking for a new VPS or web hosting service, be sure to check out RackNerd’s latest LowEndBox specials! In this article, w...

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What is 2-Factor Authentication?

Generating and Using SSH Keys, Part 2

In the previous tutorial, we showed you how to generate an SSH key pair.  In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use it to login. Assumptions In this tutorial: Your ssh key file is called "my-ssh-key...

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Generating and Using SSH Keys, Part 2

Generating and Using SSH Keys, Part 1

Traditionally, authentication in Unix-based systems is done with passwords.  This tests "something you know".  SSH keys offer a higher level of security by adding "something you have"- in this case, a...

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Generating and Using SSH Keys, Part 1

Signs That You've Outgrown Shared Hosting and Should Upgrade to a VPS

This article was written by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd, a seasoned hosting industry veteran who has contributed this article piece for the community. Sometimes, growth is inevitable - and it’s imp...

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Signs That You've Outgrown Shared Hosting and Should Upgrade to a VPS

Installing Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - LowEndBox appreciates your contribution as always! Looking for a KVM VPS to run your Docker applications on? Be sure to check out RackN...

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Installing Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04

How to Install Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 with XRDP

This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd - LowEndBox appreciates your contribution as always! Looking for a KVM VPS to run Remote Desktop on? Be sure to check out RackNerd’s late...

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How to Install Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 with XRDP

Setup Detachable and Reattachable Terminal Sessions With tmux on your VPS

tmux (Terminal Multiplexer) is a program that you can use to have a detachable terminal session on your VPS. This means you can login, execute some commands, and then disconnect, returning hours or da...

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Setup Detachable and Reattachable Terminal Sessions With tmux on your VPS
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