In this tutorial, we'll show you how to setup and get started with Rundeck, a free (as in beer) job control solution. Why Rundeck? For some simple needs, crontab suffices. If you have a job you want to run at 1am, you stick it in crontab (or use atd), it runs, and you're happy. But what if you have more complex needs? For example, "backup these databases, and if that succeeds, tarball this source code, then git pull, th...
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In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to setup your VPS to use two-factor authentication for both normal SSH connections and console logins with Google Authenticator. What is Two-Factor Authen...
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Your Linux VPS lives in a hostile, dangerous world: the Internet. Left unsecured, your system is vulnerable to compromise, which can result in lost data, incurred charges, and general unpleasantness....
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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned contributor of the hosting industry for 12+ years. If you are looking for VPS hosting services - take a look at their lates...
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Billing platforms make your life easier when running a hosting business, as billing platforms are just not limited to, billing your customers, but also to provide complete automation of services. Ever...
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Does this sound familiar: you want to look at the content on some web site, but it requires you to sign up with your email address. You know that if you do, you'll be spammed continuously until you g...
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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd. If you are considering a VPS hosting solution, take a look at RackNerd. RackNerd is an established brand, reputable reputation, and is a...
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The tips below were contributed and shared by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned and experienced contributor of the hosting industry who is a popular provider here! In this post, we’ll be t...
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A firewall is a security tool that blocks network traffic, with many different configuration options. For example, you could configure your firewall to block all traffic except attempts to connect to...
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scp, sftp, and other protocols are useful for one-time file transfers, but what if you want to have a permanent connection that allows you to treat a remote filesystem as local? You could look at nfs,...
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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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Throughout the past year, you may have noticed more Hybrid Server offerings being featured here on LowEndBox. While this is a relatively new offering so to speak, the LowEndBox staff are working to ge...
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Web Hosting Control Panels play a very important role in shared hosting as it provides easy management of web hosting, databases, DNS configuration and mail box. One of the most common control panel,...
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This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros of RackNerd. If you are looking for a VPS or web hosting service - be sure to check out RackNerd! For those who are new to the LowEndBox website comm...
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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. Whether you are looking for shared hosting, reseller h...
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We know that many shoppers who visit LowEndBox to find a cheap VPS, cheap dedicated server or something else prefer that it be hosted in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles datacenter market is o...
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A cardinal rule of security is to avoid running services you don't need. A logical extension of that rule is to not expose ports to the public Internet unnecessarily. You may have a very good reason...
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In May we asked our readers and community members to submit note worthy news that can be featured on LowEndBox. We got tons of feedback and we're excited to start sharing all the news over the next co...
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With a huge portion of the world's population told to stay home, many people are looking for ways to fill the time. Setting up a home media server might be a great idea and help keep you and your love...
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Let's Encrypt is a free https certificate you can install on your cheap VPS for free, browser-validated https. In this tutorial, we'll walk through setting up Let's Encrypt https on an nginx host run...
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What is KVM VPS? KVM VPS is an acronym for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. It is a full virtualization solution and has become commonly adopted by hosting providers throughout the majority of the last d...
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ISPConfig is arguably the most complete open source server administration control panel in existence. Developed by Till Brehm of projektfarm in 2005, it has stood the test of time and endured as the d...
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Welcome to another LowEndBox tutorial- sort of. What started out as a tutorial for installing ISPConfig 3 on CentOS 7 has taken a drastic turn. Instead of telling you about how you can install ISPConf...
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In the world of systems administration, having the commands to add or remove a blackhole / nullroute a host or problematic IP address can be very useful. So in this simple, yet useful tutorial, we'll...
Read MoreIt’s 2 AM, you’re up late working on your website, and you find that your MySQL database has gone offline. You log into your server to troubleshoot, and the following unpleasant error message appears...
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Hello all! As you may have noticed, we haven't posted a tutorial in quite some time. As it turns out, finding good help is difficult. The good news is that we've found someone and he's working on some...
Read MoreWhat is Apache Virtual Host Apache virtual host helps to run multiple websites on the same server. There are two types of virtual host configuration that apache supports IP-based virtual hosts Name-ba...
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Today, we will go over the basics of how to install a TeamSpeak 3 server on your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. Before you install TeamSpeak 3, it is recommended that you check your VPS provider’s terms and condit...
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