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It is one of the tasks I want to do but never try to finish: Check logfiles. Look through all the logfiles to see if something happend that should not happen. It is a job which is boring and so a single important line can splip through your scrolling. But linux-like: There is a tool for it -...

Due to nostalgia I installed a BBS system on my small 64 MB vps. Had a talk with some old friends about how all started and we remembered the good old bbs days. Current main screen is: ▓███▀█▀█ ▓███▀█ ▀▀▀▀ ▓███ █ ▒███ █ ▒███▄█ ███▒ ▒███▀▄█ 54 mins...

This tutorial is about installing a MongoDB cluster on Debian/Ubuntu. There are different ways to run a MongoDB cluster. My prefered one is the ReplicaSet. For a working ReplicaSet you need at least three servers. Running the master Running the slave Running the Arbiter This is caused by...

Provider: RamNode Plan: OpenVZ SSD 256mb VPS Price: 24$ per year Location: NL Purchased: 08/2013 I did a review on the SSD cached OpenVZ in Atlanta and the the SSD OpenVZ in Seattle offers too. Hardware information: cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu...

Quite busy times for Nick, Tyler and Elliot. Acquire a company and expanding to NL at the same time. Is it easy to migrate a official registered company in NL?

Looking forward to some new motd ideas. My current motd:

This tutorial is about setting up a mailserver. It is based on my own efforts to not use gmail any longer. I want to keep my own emails and I want to keep my own backups. Running your own mail server is pain. This is something you have to monitor all the time. And as long as your server is not...

Munin is a little peace of perl magic. If you do not know it -> look at this demo. Installation is quite simple: apt-get install munin munin-node libcache-cache-perl Now you have to config munin: sudo nano /etc/munin/munin.conf Only part you have to alter: # a simple host tree [name of...

I am searching for sub 30$/year ipv4 vps providers in europe that do offer about 96-256MB of RAM. So I have allready checked: BudgetVM (UK) Crowncloud (UK) DotVPS (UK) EaseVPS (UK) Edis Ginernet (Spain) Iniz (NL) Iperweb (Italy) Lowendspirit (IPv6 only) MiniVPS (UK) Torqhost (Estonia) Did i...

I am looking forward to web comic recommendations. My current fav is: http://threepanelsoul.com/ All about coding/job/tech and becomming father.

If you want to register a new toplevel domain for free, try the register page for .ml or .cf domains. The if might be quite huge because my NoScript plugin pointed me to following iframe: <iframe src="http://connect.dot.tk/openid/embed?token_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.dot.ml%2Fconnect%2Fregister"...

Provider: AnyNode Plan: OpenVZ 512mb VPS Price: 6$ per month - free for 3 month testing Location: Chicago, IL Purchased: 06/2013 Hardware information: cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R)...

There are a lot of good offers on the LEB market but some providers do not want to support IPv6. Some providers want to support it but their datacenter do not care. This little tutorial is for customers wanting to play around with IPv6 even if their provider tells them "IPv6 will be available...

I wanted to generate some one time passwords to allow a friend to login 10 times via scp to download some stuff. Sounds strange but I wanted to ensure that he is not using the account for anything else. So there are two things todo: Generate one time passwords Lock a user to scp only Let's...

Provider: RamNode Plan: OpenVZ SSD 128mb VPS Price: 24$ per year Location: Seattle, WA Purchased: 07/2013 I did a review on the SSD cached OpenVZ in Atlanta and the the SSD OpenVZ in NL offers too. Hardware information: cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel...

Do you think abuse@provider does work? My log watcher daemon is sending me one or two emails a day (since yesterday a lot more) about detected "attacks". I ignore that as long as there is no pattern. But these incident are just the top of the iceberg if I look to my mailserver. Fail2ban is...

This thread is all about posting private homepages. Maybe some other board members might run a homepage on their vps too. I am looking forward for links. So I will start with wlanboy.com - tweeter archive. . All done in Ruby running on a Thin cluster living on a 96MB vps from ServerDragon...

This is not a planned tutorial but a start of a discussion how low end vps can serve as web frontends. Many people like to use event-driven webservers like lighttpd or ngix other do prefer process-based webservers like apache. Both do have their advantages but only the first do have the image...

I want to start a thread about how a one file script for iptables/ip6tables should look like. What default settings are ok and how different services like webserver, mailservers, etc can be unlocked. Why unlocked? Because like word filters I do not prefer blacklists: Everytime I read a post...

Provider: FlipHost Plan: Offsite MySQL database Price: 1$ per month Location: Austin, TX Purchased: 03/2013 I do not have a FlipHost VPS yet, but I am using their offsite MySQL package. 1$ a month for a MySQL database service is a fair amount. Currently my own nodestatus/ip scripts, my...