NEW: Tutorial of the Month

mpkossen

I'm happy to announce a new monthly event at LowEndTalk: the Tutorial of the Month!

We've got a special Tutorials section where people can post tutorials for other to benefit. Each month we're going to select one tutorial that was posted during the previous month and reward that with a prize.

For September the prize will be 1 year of an HudsonValleyHost 1GB OpenVZ VPS. I will select the winner during the first week of October.

perennate

mpkossen said: For September the prizepunishment will be 1 year of an HudsonValleyHost 1GB OpenVZ VPS

Sorry I had to.

Hopefully we'll see more useful tutorials.

IgniteServers

Sounds good.

wych

Good idea; Would be nice seeing some fresh insights into what people do on there VM's.

0xdragon

@perennate said:
Hopefully we'll see more useful tutorials.

SoTrue

Nekki

I'm looking forward to the guy who writes an openvpn tutorial that basically uses @nyr's script.

Lee

It's a great idea, we need to ensure quality and originality is awarded. HVH is the best of CC brands in my view and a free 1GB VPS is not a bad prize at all.

stallion

Good idea. Tutorial section is my fav on this site.

Lee

People should also feel free to suggest a tutorial for someone to write. That would be good too.

jar

Someone write up a tutorial on low end high availability. Here's what I'm thinking:

• MySQL replication
• GlusterFS
• CloudFlare enabled
• Monitoring server with cron job to run script that will switch the A record at CloudFlare via API if one server goes down (no propagation because CloudFlare IP is in front)

Go!

tr1cky

Jar said: CloudFlare enabled

And then CloudFlare DNS goes down and they don't support secondary DNS.

jar

tr1cky said: And then CloudFlare DNS goes down and they don't support secondary DNS.

I've never personally witnessed a CloudFlare DNS outage. I've seen Gmail outages, but not CloudFlare DNS. Not to say that they haven't happened, but that it's obviously not at a scale that I wouldn't consider it a good piece for low end high availability

Lee

I would really like to see a tutorial for setting up NAT with OVZ or something, no a proxmox type install, command line only. Something that goes beyond just a quick bash script to get OVZ running but best practise for setting containers up with NAT, security and the like.

It's getting used more and more, especially with all the Kimsufi, Online and other cheap dedis about that have little IP space.

MikePT

A tutorial for setting up NAT would be pretty interesting, indeed!

28Tom

NAT OpenVZ/KVM. I could make a tut in my spare time this weekend. Of course i dont need the VPS and would prefer it to be given away.

Lee

TropiThomas said: Of course i dont need the VPS and would prefer it to be given away.

I guess if you were to win the prize but did not want it you can speak to @mpkossen about passing it along to the next best tutorial with input from yourself.

roykem

Would be great if writers keep LET vps as sample in their tutorials.

Love this idea. Ty @mpkossen

Dylan

@Jar said:
I've never personally witnessed a CloudFlare DNS outage.

I think the last one was two and a half years ago. They're extremely reliable as a DNS provider.

black

I wrote UptimeFlare for auto dns A record switching using uptime robot, feel free to strip it out and grab the part that handles the cloudflare stuff.

jvnadr

TropiThomas said: NAT OpenVZ/KVM. I could make a tut in my spare time this weekend.

+1 I would also like to see a detailed tutorial with best practices for setting up NAT openvz and NAT KVM. Also, a detailed tutorial on setting up Proxmox for NAT+ipv6 in KVM vm's.

gestiondbi

@Lee said:
I would really like to see a tutorial for setting up NAT with OVZ or something, no a proxmox type install, command line only. Something that goes beyond just a quick bash script to get OVZ running but best practise for setting containers up with NAT, security and the like.

It's getting used more and more, especially with all the Kimsufi, Online and other cheap dedis about that have little IP space.

@MrGeneral

Rapidly done by @Autosnipe, but works: http://virtguide.com/?mode=article&id=3

P.S: Don't browse the website outside of this link, it's broken.

P.S.S: PM me if you need something or for a broken link.

MikePT

@davidgestiondbi said:
P.S.S: PM me if you need something or for a broken link.

Thaaaanks!

tvtaddy

thanks for sharing. it is really awesome.

vRocket_io

Posted my first one today!

Installing SmartOS on VMware (sandbox so you can play with it and learn)

:-)

0xdragon

@vRocket_io said:
Posted my first one today!

Installing SmartOS on VMware (sandbox so you can play with it and learn)

:-)

Nice guide, but you're a little late!

mikho

0xdragon said: Nice guide, but you're a little late!

late for September, early for October

0xdragon

@mikho said:
late for September, early for October

So true!

vRocket_io

@mikho said:
late for September, early for October

Ah, I just did it for doing's sake, not to win or anything. There'll be plenty more

mpkossen

Just a note that the selection for the September winner is underway. Due to me being on vacation is has been delayed a little. I hope to get to it soon though.

emdad

What will be the Prize for October?

samuli

A tutorial for setting up a Debian web server from scratch would be pretty interesting,

• Setup NGINX, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB on Debian 8
• optimize and secure the settings
• Securing SSH server using port knocking iptables and fail2ban