LES Wiki - work in progress.

InceptionHosting

The LES wiki is going to be very much a work in progress and will take over all 'list posts' in time, I have made it visible for now with a top bar link.

Eventually, when I move talk.lowendspirit.com to lowendspirit.com it may replace the current 'blog' based on grav completely, that is still under consideration though.

Suggestions on content for the wiki are welcome please

Asim

Thanks @AnthonySmith for doing this

Asim

@AnthonySmith

FREE Blesta licenses by BuyVM and NexusBytes
FREE Softaculous Premium by BuyVM

@Francisco and @seriesn , please correct If I get it wrong

icry

That sounds Great @AnthonySmith _/_

For Wiki Suggestions, something like Installing Selfhosted Open Source stuff on LowendVPS providers

tridinebandim

"how to"s lots of "how to"s

vpn, proxy, dns, torrent, xamp, wp scripts, media server installs, hosting scripts installs, proxmox , ipv6 only proxmox, proxmox ha?.....

InceptionHosting

Well, I don't think it is the right format to have the actual guides in but it will be great to link to them when they are written

_MS_

A Self-Hosted Category.

havoc

@AnthonySmith said:

Eventually, when I move talk.lowendspirit.com to lowendspirit.com

You're gonna take a mega SEO hit on that if I'm not mistaken. Subdomains are scored separately so basically start from zero

kuroneko23

havoc said:

You're gonna take a mega SEO hit on that if I'm not mistaken. Subdomains are scored separately so basically start from zero

Users can contribute (write) to the wiki as usual?

icry

@havoc said:

@AnthonySmith said:

Eventually, when I move talk.lowendspirit.com to lowendspirit.com

You're gonna take a mega SEO hit on that if I'm not mistaken. Subdomains are scored separately so basically start from zero

A 301 Cloudflare Page Rule should take care of passing the Link Juice in sometime

ferri

Great job @AnthonySmith

How can we contribute?

InceptionHosting

@kuroneko23 said: Users can contribute (write) to the wiki as usual?

nope, at least not directly, I can't afford the time to moderate the spam and dead stuff.

@icry said: A 301 Cloudflare Page Rule should take care of passing the Link Juice in sometime

That was what I was hoping, but the place is only a year old I can live with the 'hit'

@ferri said: How can we contribute?

I guess the only way I can think of right now is to make a wiki contributions category when it gets approval I will take the content and push it into the wiki.

cyberhost

Sounds great

Just some ideas:
Self-Hosting
Backups
DNS
Security Hardening/Tips

InceptionHosting

if anyone has any scripts or configs they use and want to share that would be great, I am not talking about self-made software suites but more like backups scirpts, one liners to do xyz, nginx/mysqld conf's etc etc

daffy

Noticed that only Nexusbytes is listed under hosts giving free Blesta, but according to their website BuyVM also does so.

InceptionHosting

@daffy said:
Noticed that only Nexusbytes is listed under hosts giving free Blesta, but according to their website BuyVM also does so.

Thanks, yes, it will take a while and good people like you to help get that info on the site, I am seemingly incapable of keeping all of these things in my head these days good job I am making a directory eh!

gks

LXD, LXC Idiots Guide complete
Wireguard Idiots Guide complete

VXLAN between LES VPS, NAT VPS, network and port forwarding.. I shall test with InceptionHosting then expand to Cam and MrVm NATs.

tridinebandim

docker for idlers: a concies guide (install, configure,use, backup, delete, f*ck up, recover, try to keep it running)

deank

Will I be able to add a definition for male PMS?

It's a common occurrence in low end world.

yoursunny

@tridinebandim said:
"how to"s lots of "how to"s

• How to configure VXLAN
• How to serve push-ups to China
• How to pull hair out when frustrated at EUserv slowness
• How to mess up OpenVZ 7 container so bad that it would not boot even for rescure and has to be reinstalled
• How to install KVM in unprivileged LXC container
• How to run YABS in a loop until your VPS gets suspended
• How to operate a summer host
• How to explain to the wife why there are so many suspicious DNS entries on the family nameserver
• How to cure the urge of buying too many idle VPS
• How to calculate how much money is lost on idling VPS, compared to buying at full price when you are ready to deploy
• How to obtain consoling after missing the €1/year legendary deal

@tridinebandim said:
docker for idlers: a concies guide (install, configure,use, backup, delete, f*ck up, recover, try to keep it running)

• How to move Docker data to a separate disk partition
• How to install Nextcloud via Docker
• How to restrict CPU usage of a Docker container so that it will never exceed the 33% limit allowed by Virmach MaxKVM
• How to run RIPE Atlas probe in Docker container
• How to contribute to ArchiveTeam with Warrior Docker container
• How to enable IPv6 and IPv9 in Docker

Weblogics

In regards to how-to guides to install generic xx service or program, don't see a need for them here as there are already 1000's of same guides already available with a google search. If anything, more vps specific how-to's such as Anthony already mentioned : "backups scripts, one liners to do xyz, nginx/mysqld conf's etc etc.

yoursunny

@Weblogics said:
one liners to do xyz

One liner to break OpenVZ 7 so bad that it would require a reinstall:

rm -rf /etc/network/interfaces; mkdir /etc/network/interfaces

I found this when I'm trying to stop SolusVM from overwriting my config. Apparently this breaks the container and it will never boot again.

One liner to stop SolusVM from messing up the config:

chattr +i /etc/network/interfaces

Tested on Gullo's Hosting Canada.

_MS_

@yoursunny said: rm -rf

No rm -rf jokes, please.

ehab

@yoursunny said:

• How to install KVM in unprivileged LXC container

@Not_Oles already lost his hair on this, lets see who next.

i would settle in installing k3s master on proxmox-LXC.

Not_Oles

@ehab said:

@yoursunny said:

• How to install KVM in unprivileged LXC container

@Not_Oles already lost his hair on this, lets see who next.

I spent like five minutes. All I did was run virt-host-validate.

Today I have a new customer who wants Stripe. I can imagine Stripe being harder than running KVM inside LXC. Any tips on Stripe?

InceptionHosting

@yoursunny said: One liner to stop SolusVM from messing up the config

yep, that can do the trick however I would suggest that if you need to edit the network config, you probably should not be cheeping out on OpenVZ anyway.

ehab

@Not_Oles said:

no experience on strip at all - sorry about that.

Not_Oles

@AnthonySmith said: I have made it visible for now with a top bar link.

The top bar text entries now break at my very high level of zoom.

Dream

I will have a look later I may have some bash scripts lying around. Maybe not the most actual ones but still working I hope.

flips

MS said:

@yoursunny said: rm -rf

No rm -rf jokes, please.

How about some dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive or some malformed mkfs commands?

InceptionHosting

@Not_Oles said: The top bar text entries now break at my very high level of zoom.

Sorry not a lot I can do about that, at least it is not a functional change.

Not_Oles

@AnthonySmith said: Sorry not a lot I can do about that, at least it is not a functional change.

Here are proposed changes in div class="Navigation-linkContainer". Maybe "Forum" should be "Talk".

bikegremlin

@deank said:
Will I be able to add a definition for male PMS?

It's a common occurrence in low end world.

Without such article, the whole Wiki wouldn't have any sense.

vyas

Reminded by this (awesome) idea, wasn't a lowendwiki project started last year? I recall some conversation with @uptime about it. Maybe the two projects have some concurrence?

mikho

LEA had some scripts that checked hosts (providers) for certain changes.

Not sure if that wiki is still available, perhaps wayback machine to find more info?

The scripts are long gone but I’m sure we can, as a group fix that.

Use this link in wayback machine to some more text about it.

http://lowendbox.com/blog/hosting-provider-tracker-available-on-low-end-wiki/

Not_Oles

@AnthonySmith Yaaay!!! Thanks for making the change in the menu bar! Looks great again! On behalf of all the visually impaired people who need a lot of zoom, I do thank you so much for especial courtesy and consideration!

vyas

@Not_Oles said:
@AnthonySmith Yaaay!!! Thanks for making the change in the menu bar! Looks great again! On behalf of all the visually impaired people who need a lot of zoom, I do thank you so much for especial courtesy and consideration!

Kind sir, that line should probably read "On behalf of people who find it hard to read"
it covers a wider spectrum:

• those who cannot read because they have sub-optimal vision
• those who cannot read due to language limitations)
• those who cannot read because they are.... you know the types

angstrom

@vyas said:
Reminded by this (awesome) idea, wasn't a lowendwiki project started last year? I recall some conversation with @uptime about it. Maybe the two projects have some concurrence?

Yes, that project was https://lowend.wiki/ , but it seems to be down now. In practice, it was mainly a site to learn about different providers. This said, I'm not sure whether it ever gained much traction.

poisson

I will volunteer time to edit the content so that words are top-notch. The market isn't looking too good now, so I have started my own copyediting and copywriting gig. I will contribute these skills to this project. @AnthonySmith let me know when content starts populating on the wiki.

If anyone needs a highly competent copyeditor or writer, do get in touch. LES folks will receive preferential pricing. I do a broad spectrum of editing and writing, from blog articles to academic manuscripts. If you prefer to learn how to write and edit your own work instead of relying on me, I am happy to arrange writing instruction and consultations too.

tridinebandim

@poisson said: academic manuscripts

Just wanted to leave a mark for future to find easily if i need a proofread

thanks.

poisson

@tridinebandim said:

@poisson said: academic manuscripts

Just wanted to leave a mark for future to find easily if i need a proofread

thanks.

You can bookmark my website which is in my signature. Just say you are from LES and the pricing will be preferential.

kassle

i'm curious who are the three spirits (souls ?) in the LES logo ? maybe a good story for wiki too

i'm sure one of them is @AnthonySmith ... but dunno the other two

yes, this curiosity made me register

InceptionHosting

@kassle said:
i'm curious who are the three spirits (souls ?) in the LES logo ? maybe a good story for wiki too

i'm sure one of them is @AnthoySmith ... but dunno the other two

yes, this curiosity made me register

Generic people. The image was intended to show cooperation between people.

_MS_

@AnthonySmith said: cooperation between people

Community

kassle

meh ... expected to be community founders , especially after reading https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/2317/a-year-in-les-reflections-thoughts-my-history-and-the-future-for-lowendspirit

yoursunny

@AnthonySmith said:

@kassle said:
i'm curious who are the three spirits (souls ?) in the LES logo ? maybe a good story for wiki too

Generic people. The image was intended to show cooperation between people.

I thought the 3 people represent:

• Inception Hosting
• RandomIT
• NanoVZ

Tap here if you don't know why.