How to Setup Ruby on Rails for CentOS or Fedora
This tutorial will guide you through setting up a basic Ruby on Rails environment, installing: Ruby 1.8.7 RubyGems 1.8.15 Rails 3.1.3 Sqlite3 This tutorial was written for CentOS, Fedora, and other...
View Article[Tutorial] Changing outgoing SMTP email on Postfix MTA.
We, at VelociHOST would like to start building a comprehensive tutorial section on our knowledgebase to help the community on giving what we all needed at the beginning of our journey. But we want it...
View ArticleYet another "install a VNC" tutorial
this is another one, but using Openbox. It will reduce the idle RAM usage to aprox. 22mb. apt-get update apt-get install openbox vnc4server iceweasel menu obconf obmenu mkdir /etc/vnc echo...
View ArticleRun shell commands in Python
I've been working with Python lately, and frequently need to execute shell commands. So, I came up with this module to do this in normalized fashion. Maybe someone else will find it useful. I stake no...
View ArticleHow to set up your own distributed, redundant, and encrypted storage grid in...
If you have a few different VPSes, you'll most likely have a significant amount of unused storage space across all of them. This guide will be a quick introduction to setting up and using Tahoe-LAFS, a...
View ArticleHow to block lowend ads and Google spying on your activity
For folks not running adblock software already or running on limited resources where such software might consume too many resources, there is this. This will work on all major OSes. Why block these ads...
View Article[TURORIAL] How to make backups of your CentOS Virtual Private Server (VPS).
When you work with a VPS or even any kind of server architecture, is extremely important to backup your data as a precautionary measure against data loss from failures or corruption from handling your...
View Article[Tutorial] - HTTP Strict Transport Security setup on Apache, NGINX and Lighttpd
HTTP Strict Transport Security (often abbreviated as HSTS) is a security feature that lets a web site tell browsers that it should only be communicated with using HTTPS, instead of using HTTP. This...
View Article[TUTORIAL] Have a GUI and Browser on Debian and less than 256MB RAM
After some boring lapse, I tried TinyWM, and will teach you how to install it in your LEB Using iceweasel, flash plugin installed, watching youtube: free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem:...
View ArticleSetting up development environment for PHP+MySQL using VirtualBox
I know it may not be pure VPS material, but decided to post it here anyway. I've created a tutorial to set up your own PHP+MySQL environment using virtualized Debian installation with VirtualBox. I...
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[ Howto ] setup your first web server for various services
Thought I would post some old shell scripts I used to use for setting up my own and client machines. I have somewhat graduated from these as they are a bit bloated. For this you will need to put the...
View ArticleCrossfire Ping Monitoring
OK so I took a little flack in my first post to LET: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/10800/vps-showdown-waveride-vs-vps-database-vs-iniz-vs-prometeus-vs-domvps Some of it is because I'm a little...
View ArticleQuick Trick: Drop All Tables in MySQL Database in One Step
Neat little trick I learned today: mysqldump -u${user} -p${pass} -h ${host} --add-drop-table --no-data ${database} | grep ^DROP | mysql -u${user} -p${pass} -h ${host} ${database}
View ArticleSite deploy script
Just a quick script I use on most of my servers to revision and deploy site versions. How it works: It relies you you having a dev.${DOMAIN} folder which contains your active development version. When...
View Article[Tutorial] Set up a federated XMPP Chat Network with ejabberd, your own...
This tutorial shows you how to set up your own federated chat network using ejabberd. It covers a basic single node ejabberd server and also the setup of an ejabberd cluster, including errors and DNS...
View ArticleHastymail2 : Simple IMAP webmail client using Nginx & PHP5
Step 0 : Purchase new VPS, if required. If you already have a VPS running Nginx with PHP enabled, skip to Step 4. Step 1 : Install Debian and slim down your shiny new VPS (inspired by the famous...
View ArticleHow to Install ownCloud on Ubuntu 12.10 - Tutorial
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...
View Articlehtop with OpenVZ Support
Just in case there are people out there who haven't discovered the wonders of htop yet, and if those people happen to run OpenVZ nodes, here's something for you: You can compile htop with OpenVZ...
View ArticleHow to Protect WHMCS License from Public - Tutorial
WHMCS is the most famous script used by major hosting companies. So in past there were many WHMCS security breach and exploit. The hosting company owners always want to protect their as well as clients...
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