Topic: tech

There are a lot of reasons you might be looking for a VPS server - maybe you've outgrown your shared hosting plan or you want to run custom software or a tech stack that isn't available on most shared hosting options (e.g. Ruby on Rails).

A lot of VPS providers out there come with a scary price tag. This is particularly an issue if you're just starting your new website and it won't have a lot of traffic or income yet.

To solve this problem, here is a list of the cheapest VPS hosting providers at or under $5 per month.

ACL's (access control lists) are ideal for when you need fine-grained permission control in Linux. The challenge when using ACLs is finding a code editor which preserves those ACL permissions upon save. Most code editors are not designed with ACLs in mind, and these are lost when saving a file, leaving only the standard Linux permissions.

Here are Linux code editors which preserve ACLs.

When you look at your progress in your current league on Duolingo, you'll notice that some people have a little status icon (kind of like an emoji) shown next to their profile picture, as you can see in the image above. But how do you change this icon or remove it completely? It's easy to do, but it's not at all intuitive. Here is an illustrated tutorial for how to change your status mini-icon in Duolingo. This method works for both Android and iPhone at the time of writing.

When you're looking at purchasing a domain name, you might be wondering which registrar to use. Namecheap and NameSilo are two well-known, affordable, reputable domain name registrars. You can't really go wrong with either one in terms of reliability, but they have a different set of pros and cons that you should be aware of.

I've had personal experience buying domain names with both registrars. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each.

If you're part of a fantasy league on CBS sports, the default when you sign up is that everyone else in your league can see your email address. You might not want that, especially if you don't already know everyone in your league well. Here is how to hide your email address in your CBS sports fantasy league.

If you're a fan of Tropico, good news: there are other games out there which are similar to the style of gameplay of Tropico 6 or its predecessors. Here are the best games like Tropico. Most of these (but not all!) are strategy based city building games, although the word "city" is used loosely here to mean anything from a city to a country.