Open Source

Services and Resources

Free SSL Certificates For Everyone

Some really great news came out today regarding SSL security. EFF, Mozilla, Cisco as well as a few other big players in the Open Source industry have unveiled a new service called “Let’s Encrypt“. Free SSL Certificate Authority Let’s Encrypt…

Derek Eatough
November 19, 2014

Applications, OS, Server and Apps, Services and Resources, Software

Top Free Self Hosted Applications For Webmasters

In this review we cover the top self hosted web applications with a focus on tools useful for Webmasters. Analytics, Email, WordPress and More!

Derek Eatough
April 22, 2014
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Applications, OS, Server and Apps, Software

Best Free Web Hosting Panel / cPanel Alternative

Web Hosting Panel If you have ever bought or used shared web hosting space, you are probably familiar with cPanel. The purpose of a Web Hosting panel, such as cPanel, is to create a graphical user interface for basic web…

Derek Eatough
April 17, 2014
13 Comments

OS, Server and Apps, Software

How to Configure an Ultra Low Budget ($5/yr) 128mb VPS Web Server

How to configure Nginx, PHP5-FPM and MySQL for a 128MB VPS. Check out my amazing WordPress benchmarks on a $5/yr VPS node!

Gaming, Software

New Humble Bundle Mar 27 Featuring Open Source Projects!

Humble Weekly Bundle – Open Source A great new humble bundle was just announced today featuring all games which are utilizing open source projects! Open source is fairly uncommon for game development so this is a really great chance to…

Derek Eatough
March 27, 2014

Articles, Services and Resources, Software

Top 18 Tips to Improve Online Privacy From NSA Surveillance

Big Brother is Watching! We list the Top 18 things you can do with open source software and free internet services to greatly improve your privacy online!

Derek Eatough
March 25, 2014
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Applications, Software

XBMC – Free, Full-Featured Media Center

Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is a Full Featured Media front end designed to your PC into the ultimate smart-box for your TV! And best of all, it's free!

Derek Eatough
February 12, 2014

Gaming

SteamOS – The Linux Gaming Platform

The days of workstation pcs and computer den's are fading away as tablets and the living room computing experience gain momentum. Windows is slowly but surely losing it's impenetrable foothold on the PC gaming market as a result and everyone is scrambling to step in and take control.

Derek Eatough
October 2, 2013
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Applications, OS, Server and Apps

Building a Free Web Server at Home

Ever wanted to build your own blog or websites, but didn't like the idea of forking out monthly fee's to keep it running? In this article we will cover a set of open source server software, and some suggestions for hardware, allowing us to run a home server without the need to pay for a hosting service.

Derek Eatough
April 23, 2013