Security by obscurity is a known term in the world of computers and one way to make it more troublesome for people trying to bruteforce your VPS is to change the Port that ssh listens to, follow these simple steps…
Like every VPS addict it is quite normal to forget which version of an operating system you are running especially if it is a server that you haven’t logged onto for a long time. In other cases, you may simply be…
VestaCP is another control panel for your VPS , It’s lightweight and user friendly to handle. Minimum requirements are CPU: 768Mhz Ram: 512M HDD: 20Gb OS: RHEL/CentOS 5,6 Features in VestaCP Web Server DNS server Database Server Mail Server FTP Server…
ownCloud is a simple tool to manage your data on your VPS. We all have used Dropbox , Box or Mediafire to store and share our data with our friends, family and with our colleagues. But they all have storage…
Introduction One fairly common use of Linux VPS boxes is the running of Minecraft servers. In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of installing an optimised server, called Spigot, and getting automatic start-up on server boot. Installing Java…
Introduction If you’re looking to improve your website’s uptime and availability, then this solution might be the one you’re looking for. We’ll be using Nibbleblog as our blogging software to keep this guide simple. Apache, PHP, PHP modules (php5gd, and…
This is a two-part article, link to second page is at the end of this page. IRC is a fantastic way to get in touch with other peers. Even though this text-based communication medium was created in 1988 by a…
MySQLTuner is a script that will assess MySQL performance and recommend steps to maximize performance. To install and run MySQLTuner, log in to your VPS as the root user and follow these steps (for CentOS): Download MySQLTuner:
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Introduction Nginx comes with a nifty module that allows us to allow or deny access to directories served by the webserver. The module is named ngx_http_access_module to allow or deny access to IP address. The syntax can look as follows:…
Introduction With the latest Java updates the security settings has been set at a higher level by default and there are many websites that now experience problems with some older Java applets that no longer works. This is a common…
I’ve written guides on how to backup to both Dropbox.com and Box.com and now got the request via Twitter to write how to do the same thing with copy.com. Since I didn’t have a copy.com account I had to create…
The easiest way, not saying it is the best, to copy files in windows is by using Windows Explorer. You can mount your VPS disk in Windows using the SMB/CIFS protocol, in this guide I will demonstrate this by installing…
Being a Windows user I am always wondering why Windows uses so much diskspace. One of the resasons are that Windows always saves older copies of system files after an update. After each Windows Update more and more of your…
Winner of the 2013/2014 Teach something, Win something is Zander who is active on the Lowendspirit forums and did a writeup on his skype bot setup on one of the Lowendspirit boxes. Happy reading! OS: Ubuntu 12.04 64Bit First of…
In second place in the 2013/2014 Teach something, Win something contest we find Maarten Kossen, administrator of LowendBox.com. His guide on creating a Nagios plugin in PHP is a follow up on a series of Nagios tutorials Maarten wrote on…
