Published at: Dec. 12, 2024, 9:15 a.m.
Learn how to backup a Linux or BSD (Unix) based server using the tool `rclone` - an open source file transfer software which has support for encrypted backups to business/enterprise file storage services such as Backblaze B2, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, as well as consumer cloud file storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and more
Published at: Dec. 29, 2023, 6:28 a.m.
In this guide, we'll show you how to setup and use both UFW and iptables (with netfilter-persistent) to setup a firewall on your Linux server
Published at: Dec. 24, 2023, 4:11 a.m.
In this article, we give you suggestions and information on securing your Linux server, such as disabling SSH password authentication, installing fail2ban, managing your firewall, disk encryption, and more!
Published at: April 17, 2023, 7:33 p.m.
This guide explains how to setup dropbear-initramfs to allow you to unlock LUKS full disk encryption remotely via SSH so that you don't need console access, fixing SSH key permission denied error on newer SSH, and enabling IPv6 in initramfs
Published at: Jan. 9, 2023, 10:41 p.m.
We offer colocation in some of our regions, which allows you to bring your own hardware and we can install it in our racks, allowing you almost unlimited flexibility and customisation with your server hardware and networking. Learn more here.
Published at: Dec. 31, 2022, 7:16 a.m.
We now have an autonomous USA region - US-WEST, allowing customers to run a much wider variety of content hosted within the USA while maintaining your privacy and freedom. Read more about it here.
Published at: Dec. 16, 2022, 10:57 p.m.
We run a variety of public infrastructure across our regions, from DNS servers, to NTP (Time), and even Tor relays/exits - learn about what infrastructure we operate and how you can use it :)
Published at: Nov. 21, 2022, 10:11 a.m.
This page details the prices for upgrades, what upgrades are possible, the process for upgrades, etc.
It also includes information about additional hardware/services we can offer - such as physical switches, VLANs, routed subnets, domains, and more!
Published at: Oct. 13, 2022, 1:43 a.m.
Read this article to learn about IPv6, how to check if your ISP has IPv6, and what you can do to get IPv6 if your ISP doesn't offer it - such as VPNs and 6to4 tunnels.
Published at: Sept. 4, 2022, 11:51 p.m.
Privex operates several Privacy Frontends for popular services such as Twitter, Reddit, Imgur, and Wikipedia - with Tor hidden services available, allowing you to improve your privacy when using these services
We operate these in collaboration with PrivacyTools.io
Published at: Sept. 29, 2021, 11:24 p.m.
The Privex Referral Program, is a way for customers (the "affiliate") to refer friends/family/strangers to become Privex customers (the "referral") themselves, and for the affiliate to benefit from this.
When a customer (the "affiliate") refers someone to Privex (the "referral"), and the referral orders a server using the affiliate's referral link/code, the affiliate will receive 10% of the referral's monthly server bill - every month as account credit.
Published at: Sept. 22, 2021, 5:12 p.m.
This article explains the costs for upgrading your dedicated/virtual server's network speed or bandwidth policy to an unmetered or soft-capped plan, including the per-mbit cost of unmetered networking in our autonomous regions (SE and NL).
Published at: July 16, 2021, 3:06 a.m.
NAT64 and DNS64 are two very important backwards compatibility technologies to help people transition to IPv6-only devices. Learn what they do, how they work, and how they're used.
Published at: June 29, 2021, 10:52 p.m.
Various tips and tricks related to using and maintaining a Privex Node-in-a-box VPS, such as our Hive Node-in-a-box packages
Published at: June 27, 2021, 2:57 p.m.
Published at: June 20, 2021, 9:51 a.m.
If you're in the market to buy a switch/router, whether a cheap 5-port RJ45 unmanaged switch, or a high end 48-port SFP+ datacenter router - check our suggestions to save yourself some time.
We've curated the cheapest consumer switches, mid-range business-grade routers, as well as high-end datacenter routers, and organised them by price and power usage.
This page also contains info about colocating devices smaller than 1U at Privex.
Published at: May 25, 2021, 3:43 p.m.
In this article, you'll learn how to resize a partition and filesystem on GNU/Linux using the CLI tools 'parted' and 'resize2fs'.
This guide should work for most distros, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, Arch Linux, and more!
Published at: April 4, 2021, 2:58 p.m.
If you're unable to pay via crypto for a certain reason, we can accept domestic/international Bank Transfers from various countries, as long as you transfer over 100 USD (or equivalent).
We support domestic UK, US, EU, and AU domestic transfers, as well as international SWIFT transfers.
Published at: March 14, 2021, 7:26 p.m.
In this article, we'll be showing compress + decompress benchmarks for 4 of the most popular Linux compression algorithms: gzip, bzip2 (using lbzip2), xz, and lz4
We'll lightly discuss the tradeoffs of each algorithm, and explain where/when to use the right algorithm to meet your (de-)compression needs :)
Published at: March 9, 2021, 4:23 a.m.
On some of Privex's dedicated servers, instead of a graphical KVM, we often only have Serial-over-LAN (SOL)
Learn how SOL works, what Baud and Flow Control mean, what an IPMI is, and how to configure bootloaders + OS's to use a Serial Console.
Published at: Feb. 20, 2021, 9:44 a.m.
At Privex, we have a wide range of server packages available to meet most customers' desires - but in some cases, none of our packages fit your needs.
This article details some of the many ways we can offer custom packages to give each customer their dream server :)
Published at: Feb. 20, 2021, 8:27 a.m.
If you're considering ordering a server from Privex with the Microsoft Windows Server operating system, please read this article to understand: how to order it, pricing, which packages it's available with, and other information.
Published at: Feb. 6, 2021, 2:43 p.m.
This article explains Privex's various bandwidth usage policies, which regions / packages use which policies, explaining the restrictions (or lack of restrictions) of each policy, how they're monitored/enforced, and the punishments for exceeding your bandwidth policy.
Published at: Jan. 21, 2021, 4:31 p.m.
Published at: Jan. 6, 2021, 10:05 p.m.
Learn how to connect to and mount an SMB/CIFS (Samba) share on most Linux distros, AND how you can run your own SMB server on Linux
Covered distros: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Oracle, Redhat + others
Published at: Oct. 30, 2020, 10:17 p.m.
Published at: Sept. 10, 2020, 9:32 p.m.
Privex (AS210083) supports Bring-your-own-IP for IPv4 and IPv6, allowing you to use your own IP space within our networks.
We also sell IPv6 blocks for use both within and outside of our regions.
Read this article to learn about our Bring-your-own-IP and IPv6 Rental policies.
Published at: Aug. 26, 2020, 4:20 p.m.
Learn how to make your website available as a Tor hidden service (.onion), including advertising the onion to your Tor visitors using the new Onion-Location header (Nginx/Caddy config)
Published at: Aug. 19, 2020, 11:23 p.m.
In this article we explain what RPKI is, how it works, and why it's so important.
RPKI, short for Resource Public Key Infrastructure - is a cryptographic technology used in the world of networking to prevent BGP hijacking
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Published at: July 1, 2020, 8:49 p.m.
Published at: June 13, 2020, 3:33 a.m.
Unfortunately, Dell doesn't publish iDRAC Tools packages for Ubuntu/Debian.
BUT, you can make their Redhat packages work with Debian/Ubuntu - just follow our easy guide with examples, and you'll be using racadm and other tools in no time :)
We also include some common/useful RACADM commands with examples + explanations.
Published at: June 8, 2020, 3:12 a.m.
We have many time servers spread across Europe, which are amalgamated via our pool: chrony.privex.cc
If you'd like to know about our time servers, or you want to use specific nodes, here they are :)
Published at: June 2, 2020, 7:01 a.m.
Learn about our WebBox VPS packages, which can serve HTML + PHP websites out-of-the-box, and are pre-loaded with Python 3 (+ packages such as Django/Flask), NodeJS, MySQL (MariaDB), PostgreSQL and MORE.
Private, cheap, AND convenient!
Published at: March 25, 2020, 8:20 p.m.
This article is a "cheat sheet" for LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager), a storage management system which is commonly used on Linux machines for much more flexible "partitioning".
In this cheatsheet, you'll find examples for viewing, creating, and modifying LVM2 volumes, including thin pools and snapshots.
This is NOT intended to be an in-depth explanation on using LVM2 - this article is aimed at those who already have at least some basic knowledge of using LVM. It's simply some of the most common commands summarised with clear examples on how to do certain things.
Published at: Aug. 25, 2019, 2:28 p.m.
Our $0.99/mo Micro VPS's are a good low cost option for getting a bare bones Linux environment for your projects. However, unlike most servers, they do not come with an IPv4 address - read this to understand how this might affect you.
Published at: Aug. 15, 2019, 5:52 p.m.
Read this page to understand our VPS-xx-STEEM packages, which are designed specifically to help our customers who operate Steem witness/seed nodes get up and running quickly.
Published at: June 30, 2019, 3:13 a.m.
Read this page if you want to access www.privex.io via the I2P privacy network (privex.i2p)
Published at: March 8, 2019, 5:46 a.m.
In this article, we explain the basics of GnuPG (GPG), including what it's used for, the difference between a public and a private key, how to generate a key pair, how to import/export a public key, and how to encrypt/decrypt messages
