Hello readers! Some of you that are frequent readers might wonder what’s going on, why aren’t there any new guides being posted. The answer is a combination of many unfortunate things happening at once. I will however give you some good news, LowEndGuide is about to have a change of looks for the summer. The [...]
In this guide we will go through howto install a basic wordpress site using Minstall to minimize the memory footprint by removing unnecessary services. I will be using a a OpenVZ vps with 256 mb RAM to show you the steps needed. Lets start fresh with a reinstall from your provider’s control panel. In this case [...]
With the recent rise in brute-force attacks against WordPress installations, it’s now my turn to write down a checklist on things to do that will make your installation more secure. There are different levels to secure the installation, you can do changes to the wordpress files and settings in wordpress. You can do changes on [...]
When connecting to your VPS, you should never login as root, in fact, root logins with password authentication should be disabled. Instead you should mainly use a none-root account and elevate your access rights to root only when needed. By default, you can not use sudo with a new user account, so before you can [...]
Since this question surfaces from time to time, here is a short description of the main difference between OpenVZ and KVM. Basicly it is two different ways to offer virtualization, OpenVZ using shared resources and KVM using full virtualization. This is not ment to be a deep technical analysis, see this as an introduction or [...]
If you want to be the master of your VPS or dedicated server you must know some basic networking commands to troubleshoot connection issues or to find out more information about your or someone else server. This guide will not go into any depth for each command, thats what the man pages are for This [...]
I got a tip about this firefox plugin the other day and it is one of these “nice to have” plugins. It will show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar, the IP will be red if connecting over IPv4 and green if connecting over IPv6. Requires that you are ipv6 [...]
When installing software on your VPS you will end up with both empty files and empty directories, often these are used as placeholders/lock files/socket files for communication. This short guide will give you some examples on how to find those empty files/directories. The command we are going to use is the “find” command. To find [...]
When you run any command as root, using sudo, the password is remembered for 15 minutes by default. If you want to change the time that the password is cached, open the terminal (as root) and run: Search for this line: And change it into: where “x” is the time in minutes that the password [...]
Here is something I stumbled upon some time ago and did put it on my “To do later when I have more time” list. It’s nothing that will change the world as we know it, but it will give you some statistics about your NGINX server. NGINGX has a module called HttpStubStatusModule which provides you statistics [...]
From all the different VPS providers I have tried I’ve most often only used the default mirrors that are installed when the VPS is provisioned which sometimes is not the closest one. You can and update this to the geographically closest by running netselect-apt. Netselect-apt downloads the official Debian mirror lists and tests the access speeds to [...]
Make sure that your VPS has it’s PPP module working. To check, run: If you receive this message, your PPP module is ready for use: To install the script, copy and paste this into your SSH client of choice: the complete script source
Some may know that you can check the WHMCS license of any company using WHMCS as their billing system by adding: to any .php file in the whmcs folder. Example: If you run this, you will probably see information like licensekey licensetype Name of the licenseowner path to installation domain that are allowed to use [...]
In later versions of debian-based systems there’s a command named “apt-file”, it is used to determine which installation package a certain file can be found in. This can for example be used when something is missing when you compile from source. It may look as follows: The compilation failed because the file “raster.h” could not [...]
Mr. Pinal Dave (a MS SQL master) had an interesting post today on his blog. The question was if it is possible to see if a string is a palindrome or not. This question was asked to him from a friend who wanted to know because he was building captcha and they may display the [...]
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