Re-Enabling AES-NI on VPSes That Don’t Pass the Feature Through
LowEndTalk member @forest shared an interesting technique to enable AES-NI even when the provider doesn't pass it through.
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How to Speed Up Your Software RAID Resyncs – Thanks, LowEndTalk!
I'm in the middle of a loooooong RAID resync. But it's not as long as it was going to be thanks to LowEndTalk.
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Model-Viewer-Controller? No, Route-Viewer-Controller! Concepts in Web Apps
Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a very popular pattern for web application development. If you're new to web application design, you probably picked up a book and slogged through a chapter of academic discussion on the MVC paradigm/architecture. These chapters often speak in baroque generalities instead of doing something obvious like tracing a request through the application. Let's look at RCV (route-controller-view) because that's how these apps actually work.
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Too Many Formats: JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF vs. HEIC vs. WEBP
Go to any random web page and look at the source and you'll see a variety of image file formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and WEBP. As a viewer, you don't care because your browser renders all of them. But what if you're creating a web site? Which do you want and when?
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You Should Update Your Debian System Every Night, Unattended and Automatic.
You should update your Debian system every night, unattended and automatic. Bold words! But honestly I've done this since at least Debian 10 and have never had an issue.
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What Exactly is a Looking Glass and Why Should You Use One?
A lot of offers we publish here and on LowEndTalk refer to a "Looking Glass" or have a link to a "Looking Glass" for network info. What is that?
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pfSense: Yes, You Should Use Auto Config Backup and Here’s the Right Settings
For a lot of network devices, their entire configuration amounts to only a few megabytes' worth of data. But what a pain if you lose those megabytes! Fortunately, protecting your pfSense firewall is easy, secure, off-site, and FREE!
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Swap Is Back: High RAM Prices Are Bringing Back an Old Technology
Surging RAM prices may mean that we all need to refamiliarize ourselves with an old friend: swap.
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Are You Using All the Cloud Storage You’re Paying For? rclone Can Help You Use 100% for Backups!
Are you really using all the cloud storage you're paying for? If you're an O365, iCloud, etc. subscriber, you can use some of that storage for your home and server backups via rclone.
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Do You Need PrepperDisk, the Off-The-Grid Raspberry Pi-Powered Reference Library?
Do you need 512GB of data to survive a disaster? Maybe not, but it's kind of a cool idea.
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Should You Run FreeBSD in 2026? Maybe, Maybe Not
Let's talk FreeBSD for a moment. Should you run it? There are some pros and cons.
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How to SSH in a Non-Permissive Environment (Behind an Unfriendly Firewall at Work or School)
I think we've all been there. You're at work or at school and you get a ping from a monitor you've got setup that one of your VPSes is having a problem. But you can't connect to it because you don't have outbound SSH. There are workarounds.
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Hack the Urchin! What Are Those ‘utm’ URL Params Are All About Anyway, and How You Can Mess With Big Tech’s Mind
What does "utm" stand for? If you don't know, well...it's weird. These tags have a long history.
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Nyr’s Legendary Road Warrior Script: Still the Rock Solid Go-To for Easy VPN!
Nyr's Road Warrior script makes setting up VPNs trivially easy. It's still my go-to!
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Set Up Your Own Private Pastebin: Control Your Snippets and Secrets
If you’ve ever relied on public pastebin services to share code snippets, logs, or sensitive configurations, you’ve probably worried about privacy and longevity. Public pastebins can delete content at any time, expose data to unwanted eyes, or fail to give you fine-grained control over who sees what. And what if they get hacked? Even if you're anonymous, logs and other data could possibly trace things back to you. And if you're stored anything sensitive there, they could be exposed. The good news is that you can easily set up your own self-hosted Pastebin. That's the LowEnd DIY way!
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Knock, Knock: How to Shield Your VPS From Port Scanning with Port Knocking
xposing port 22 to the internet invites bots and brute-force attacks. There are different ways to prevent this: changing your SSH port or implementing fail2ban. There's also port knocking, which we'll implement using knockd and the knock client.
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What Happens When You Run a VPS with Zero Swap?
Do you need swap? Maybe. What happens if you don't? You'll meet the OOM Killer. Is that the end of the world? Let's look at the whole virtual memory landscape.
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I Didn’t Know It Could Do That! Cool Google Sheets Tricks You Haven’t Seen Before
Want to convert percentages to fractions? Add Roman numerals? You'd be surprised some of the things Google Sheets can do!goog
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So How Exactly Do You Learn About Security Issues on Your VPS?
If you're a sysadmin - and if you've got a VPS, you are - how do you learn about new security threats?
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Running a Gopher Server on a VPS: Retro Internet with Modern Tools!
Gopher was all the rage in the early 90s before the World Wide Web took over. Let's take a look at this old school protocol and get a Gopher server running on a modern system.x
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Roll Your Own: How to Setup and Maintain a Minecraft Server on Your VPS
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to setup a Minecraft game server on a Ubuntu VPS. But we won't stop at just starting the server but also will cover setting it up in systemd so it automatically starts/stops with the VPS boot, securing your Minecraft server with whitelisting, maintaining logs, and backing up your Minecraft server so you can roll back to earlier versions.
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A Deep Dive Into Debian 13’s /tmp: What’s New, And What To Do If You Don’t Like It
Debian 13 "Trixie" comes with a whole new world of tmpfs, which is memory-based, and an automated cleanup process. Let's take a look.
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Run Your Own AI LLM Model on a LowEnd VPS for Only $2.49 a Month! Part One: Ollama and the Model
Large Language Models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, and typically they run in massive datacenters operated by tech giants. But here on LowEndBox, we're all about democratizing computing. Is it possible to run your own AI on a cheap VPS? Yes! We'll show you how.
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Tighten Up Your VPS With an SSH Audit! Let’s Look at the ssh-audit Package…Does OpenBSD Score Higher Than Debian?
The SSH protocol is surprisingly complex, though the reason why it has to be makes sense once you think about everything it has to do. Using the ssh-audit package, you can audit your SSH server and tighten it up with an easy step-by-step instructions.
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Hackers Love Default Windows RDP Ports: Here’s Why You Should Change Yours, and How to Do It
Should your change your Windows RDP port? In LowEndBox's opinion, yes. Let's discuss why, and how to do it.
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Build Your Own Status Page with Uptime Kuma on a $1 Per Month VPS
If you run websites, services, or APIs, having a public status page is essential. Customers and staff want to know if your services are up, and you need monitoring that can alert you quickly when something goes down. The good news is that you don’t need expensive commercial services like Statuspage or Pingdom. Or Uptime Robot - which is not only no longer free but is jacking up prices 425%. With a $1 VPS and an open-source tool called Uptime Kuma, you can have a professional-looking status page in minutes.
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YOUR DATA IS GONE: How to Protect Your Synology From Being Ransomware’d
It'd be heartbreaking to find your NAS device compromised by ransomware. Here's some ways to prevent that from happening.
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How to Add Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to WordPress in About 2 Minutes
The world is a dangerous place. Take some of the edge off by enabling Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on your WordPress sites in about 60 seconds.
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