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Kimsufi KS-1 OVH dedicated server review

OVH is a French hosting company with several brands. One of them is kimsufi, where they sell dedicated servers at an amazing price. But are the servers amazing,too? Price/Features 2GB…
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how to set up an OpenVZ VPS with Proxmox on Debian 7

Install a 64-bit (!) Debian. Installation Add proxmox repo: echo deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian wheezy pve >> /etc/apt/sources.list wget -O- http://download.proxmox.com/debian/key.asc | apt-key add - Install proxmox kernel: apt-get update && apt-get…
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uniwebhosting.com dedicated server review

//Update: On 31st of March 2015, Hetzner blocked all servers from uniwebhosting. It is unclear why. 4 days later, the servers still are not reachable. Support has been unavailable for…
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tragicservers.com VPS review

Tragicservers - what a name! They have been hosting TF2 servers since 2012 and entered the VPS market recently. Lowendbox featured them three times and I decided to give their…
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BoltVM.com VPS review

There is a great thanksgiving offer from BoltVM on lowendtalk, so I decided to snatch one. //EDIT January 2016: No longer recommended, details at the bottom of the post.// Price/Features…
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VPN torrent kill switch on Ubuntu with Vuze

Disabling torrent downloads on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr once the VPN connection fails turned out to be much easier than I thought, with the torrent client Vuze. Install Vuze from…
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BIOS does not work after installing Ubuntu

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Laptop, the Lenovo IdeaPad g580 (there are many different models of it). After realizing that I want to change the drive encryption settings I…