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…
Samba share your VPS drive
Author: mikho
Owner of this site, swedish with a interest in educate both myself and others.
Cleanup winsxs folder (superseded SP files)
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…
Skype Bot
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…
Writing your own Nagios plugin in PHP
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…
Transparent Proxy Browsing with Squid3
3rd place in the Teach something, Win something contest goes to Mark Mearns for his SQUID installation script. Mark took 3rd place because of the simplicity he created with this script which will make a great addition in the script…
WordPress: Reset forgotten password
When installing and running multiple WordPress blogs it is easy to forget the password for one of the accounts used. You are using different login names and passwords for each account now are you? This has happened to me more…
Creating an SSH Proxy Tunnel with PuTTY
It is time to write a guide for Windows users on how to tunnel your traffic without the need to install any software on your local computer. Say that you are stuck behind a firewall that filters your traffic or…
Encrypting a tar or gz (gzip) File with OpenSSL
When you have sensitive data that you need to transmit but want to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt it, use some standard tools to get the job done! When sending sensitive material across the globe, be it via…
How to Setup ZNC
This guide was originally written for the Lowendspirit community by Jimmy Chen and he was kind enough to let me repost it here. He only asked me to send some money for Médecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders). Which I…
Detecting Current Version of MySQL Server
A popular question when troubleshooting database issues is what version of mySQL is installed and used? You can find this information by running a simple command on the mySQL server. Connect to your MySQL engine with your favorite client, why…