The Nextcloud team are doing so well, development seems to be flying along.

During the weekend I have setup a small VPS for monitoring network latency, I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 Server edition, I have assigned 1GB Ram and just 15gb hdd to this machine.

Multiple locations can be monitored, and alerts can be setup, here is what the interface looks like:

If you would like to setup SmokePing, please just follow these steps:

Setup a VPS, specs don't need to be high. [e.g 1gb ram]

Install Ubuntu Server 16.04 - https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
Once installed:

I changed my NIC from DCHP to a static IP Address, eg:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

#My Interface File, My interface is eth0, yours may be different, you can find this out by typing "IP Addr" at the bash CLI

# The Primary network Interface
auto eth0
Iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.202
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Once completed I then restarted the networking service

sudo service networking restart

You should now have a static IP address for your VPS, you can confirm by typing: Ifconfig
I then updated my machine:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

Once this was completed I restarted the machine:

sudo reboot

Once rebooted if we log back in, we are now ready to install smokeping:

sudo apt-get install smokeping

Once installed:

# Enable the config and mod_cgi
sudo a2enconf smokeping
sudo a2enmod cgid
#Reload the apache config
service apache2 reload

You should now be ready to edit the targets for Smokeping:

sudo nano /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets

Here is an example of my Targets file below, if you would like furthur help with your Targets file please visit: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_examples.en.html

+ Menu
menu = Google
title = Google Trace

++ Google
host = google.co.uk

+ GWMenu
menu = Gateway
title = Home Gw

++ Gateway
title = BT GW
host = 192.168.1.254

I then edited the pathnames file so sendmail points to the senmail instance or to a valid file otherwise smokeping won't run.

sudo nano /etc/smokeping/config.d/pathnames

sendmail = /bin/false

Install FASTCGI

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-fcgid

Finally give smokeping and apache a quick restart:

sudo service smokeping restart
sudo service apache2 reload

You should now have a working smokeping Installation, you can access smokeping here:

http://Your.Server.IP/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

Have a look at these: https://www.ipvanish.com/en/ - I haven't personally used them but I have seen good reviews inside a computer mag.

@Tim_G said in Windows Store and XBOX Ban Emulators:

Still doesn't compare to the nazi Apple app store.

I love that comment, so true as well

@scottalanmiller no windows Servers?

Can't remember the last time I used GUI, I use Ubuntu server which does not have it installed by default

I don't think convergence was going where they wanted with Ubuntu mobile, makes sense I suppose

I don't see why Let's Encrypt should govern websites, I think let's encrypt has done a great job trying to push all websites to use ssl. Out of good there will always be bad folks taking advantage.

@FATeknollogee - I'm with https://www.linode.com/ for my VPS and https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/hosting/ for my dedicated server.

@FATeknollogee I'm with Hawkhost for my basic sites, they have been great for many years and have much respect over on the web hosting talk forums.

for this type of project I use a vps or my dedicated server. I personally wouldn't want to run owncloud on a shared web hosting, plus many shared hosts put in their t&c's about not using the account for storage purposes.

I managed to get ISPCONFIG Installed without issue, and the hosting panel has built in packages for installing third party software like Wordpress:

This is just another atempt to compromise our privacy, if they carry on the UK will end up a nanny state. This is deeply worrying.

All major ISP's have already been ordered by our government to keep internet history of everyone, a law passed without the consulting of the people.

Don't they understand that invading privacy is not going to stop terrorism, this subject winds me up because it's always these politicians suggesting these ideas without any technical knowledge.

Eventually they will implement control of how we use the internet, implement blocks to social media during voting of governments, may seem extreme but this happens in China and Turkey.

I will have to give this a try.

ISPconfig also has a big user base.

I have been reading through the Sentora forum, I would probably stay away from that panel for now, their main developer recently left due to getting bashed and I think he had enough. There are threads about the project using some insecure code from the zpanel project, thought I would give you heads up on that one. http://us3.campaign-archive.com/?u=722bc323a024d15a407baae81&id=4725051e38

@scottalanmiller - I tried Zpanel in an early release and it was really good, I can only imagine Sentora is even better now.

I believe Sentora is a fork from zpanel.

it was me that mentioned https://mangolassi.it/topic/12687/centos-web-panel

I have mine hosted on my dedicated server as a VM with OVH.

@JaredBusch could try hitmanpro and adwcleaner to double check..