This tutorial is originally written by: Remy Van Elst @ www.raymii.org (original post here) This tutorial will show you how you can back up your website and database with Duplicity. Duplicity is a very useful tool to make remote unassisted backups. The…
What we need to do is to stop the mysql server and then start it again without reading the user table. To be on the safe side, we won’t allow any network connections while we are doing this operation. All…
This guide is written by Sven Slootweg, AKA joepie91 on www.lowendtalk.com and many other places on the Internet. He released this under the WTFPL license, now onwards to the guide! If you have a few different VPSes, you’ll most likely have a significant amount…
Download the dropbox-uploader script by Andrea Fabrizi from github as root
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wget https://raw.github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh --no-check-certificate |
make it executable and run it
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chmod +x dropbox_uploader.sh ./dropbox_uploader.sh |
when executed for the first time you will be prompted with some some instructions to be able to upload/download to your…
Box.com (formerly known as box.net) is an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for enterprise companies. With a recent promotion you could get as much as 50GB of storage space and what better thing to do then to…
Here is a pretty fancy “trick” for the ones who wants to block certain parts of the world from accessing your VPS. first of all you need to know the netblocks for the country you want to block, this information…
One of my favourite quickstart scripts is Minstall, a helpful script to use on your freshly installed VPS. With Minstall you can remove unnecessary services and install commonly used services, it will let you start with a low-mem using VPS. The readme…
If you are a provider, selling VPS for the general public this very simple but yet extremly effective WHMCS hack from Joe Dougherty @ Securedragon (known as KuJoe on Lowendtalk and ZKuJoe on WHT) is recommended for all of you. This…
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to test your upload/download speed from your VPS and share the “famous” picture from speedtest.net ? Speedtest.net uses Flash to test upload/download speed which is a hassle on most VPS. The long way…
A question was asked over at www.lowendtalk.com on how to add ip addresses to iptables from a textfile. AnthonySmith found a simple but still effective way to solve this. The entry that were discussed was
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iptables -A INPUT -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -p udp -m udp --dport 28960:28965 -j DROP |
Let’s break it all…
