Is LowEndBox Written by AI? No!
I was chatting yesterday with an acquaintance and mentioned that I work on a popular hosting blog. He asked: "do you really write anymore? Or is all just feeding prompts to AI?" It's a fair question.
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Why Oracle’s Trouble in Wisconsin Is a Big Deal
Like you, I saw a news article last week about Oracle something something Wisconsin something something billions of dollars and moved on to the next headline. OK, so a regulator is mad at Oracle because the locals are mad about datacenters jacking up their electricity rates. Yet another story in a long line of such stories, and eventually either the people (long shot) or the lobbyists (where I'd put my money) will win. But this story is much more significant.
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Deep Lore on the Tabletop Roleplaying Game You May Own Without Knowing It: Cyberpunk 2020
If you bought Cyberpunk 2077, you got a digital bonus you may have not collected: a PDF version of the tabletop roleplaying game Cyberpunk 2020.
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END OF AN ERA: Luxvps Closes Its Special Offer Category on July 31, 2026!
Luxvps recently contacted us to alert our readers that they are retiring their special offers category! Even their regular prices are a steal but this category features the deepest discounts and the best prices. Act now to get in on the remaining deals before July 31!
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The Kind of Bill I’ve NEVER Gotten From a LowEnd Provider
Image if you created an S3 bucket on Amazon Web Services a few years ago and stuck a couple files in it. Months roll by and you're accustomed to getting a bill for a few cents each time. Then one day you wake up and your bill is $2.5 billion dollars.
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What if Your Provider’s Storage Gets Corrupted?
Yesterday on LowEndTalk, member @idroid007 posed a question that probably never occurs to most VPS subscribers: What if your VPS provider's storage gets corrupted? The answer is...it depends.
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Summer is Here! Avoid the Nightmare of Buying From a Summer Host
Summer has been with us for a few weeks, officially starting June 20th. We are now in the season of summer hosts.
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The Era of Vibe-Coded Operating Systems is Upon Us
Postgres was recently rewritten in Rust in a month. Someone vibe-coded their own OS in the same period of time. The, um, bright and shining future is here?!?
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Ginernet “Made a Decision”: Upload a Selfie or No Control Panel for You!
Ginernet now requires subscribers to upload a selfie or lose access to their VPS control panel. And by default, this selfie will be used to train AI models.
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Yeee-ouch! Guest-to-Host Escape Vulnerability in Linux KVM/x86
There's a pretty grisly CVE making the rounds. It's being marketed as Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), and if you're a hosting provider, it's a headache.
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Supermicro Just Can’t Stop Breaking the Law
Supermicro is in trouble with the law again. Fresh on the heels of its previous criminal activity - where its founder was indicted for illegally shipping $2.5 billion worth of GPUs to China - comes news of another GPU-shipping scandal.
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AI VPS Demand Is Rising – Are Hosting Providers Ready?
AI VPS demand is growing fast. Learn how hosting providers can attract AI workloads with pre-configured VPS environments and faster deployment.
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Vaya con Dios, strncpy
A common misconception is that strncpy() was invented as a "safe" replacement for strcpy(). It wasn't. Please don't spit on its grave.
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Blesta Hacked – Ransom Gang Threatens to Leak Customer Details Tomorrow
Blesta customers got an email from hackers saying the billing software's servers had been hacked. And the email looks legit. Uh oh.
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Programming Languages I Have Known and Loved (and Hated)
Over my life, I've learned quite a few programming languages. Some I've loved, some I've liked, some I've hated.
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BackBlaze Finds a Lifeline: New 5-Year Deal with CoreWeave Announced
Cloud storage provider and community backup favorite BackBlaze may have finally found a way to turn a profit.
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How I Learned to Hate HTTP Referer and Why I Turned It Off
HTTP Referer is a technology that has long outlasted its marginal value. Let's get rid of it.
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Contabo Reaches 500,000 VPS Milestone – Read Reviews Before You Go Shopping!
Contabo announced on June 16, 2026, that it has reached a significant milestone by hosting 500,000 virtual private servers (VPS). So what do we, the LowEnd community think about Contabo?
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Thanks for the Cool Merch, Crunchbits!
My sweet Crunchbits merch has arrived! The Crunchbits charity drive was a huge success and Fumo dolls and hoodies are spreading across the globe.
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ELI5: Why is Everything Being Rewritten in Rust?
MannDude wanted to know why everything is being rewritten in Rust. Here's the answer.
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The Founder of Private Internet Access is Also Sovereign of the Josean Cyberstate and the Next Emperor of Korea
The founder of Private Internet Access might just be the next Emperor of Korea.
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Should You Let Your Doctor Send a Recording of Your Visit to AI?
Last week I had a routine doctor's visit. Routine...but there was something new in the stack of paperwork I was handed.
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The First 100 Wikipedia Articles
This year, Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th anniversary. I wondered the other day what the first pages on Wikipedia were.
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The YouTube App is an Authenticator…and That’s a Problem
The YouTube app is actually an authenticator. And that's an inconvenience.
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Google Held Responsible for AI Hallucinations by German Court
These days, Google is shoving AI into every search result, and a German court is holding them liable for what AI says. In a decision this week, the Regional Court of Munich ruled that Google had beend spreading false claims about two Munich-based publishers.
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Will x86 Become a “Big Iron” Server-Only Chip?
Back in the 90s, there was a company named Tadpole that sold laptops with pretty exotic processors. You could get a Tadpole laptop running SPARC, Alpha, or PowerPC. We might be going back to that kind of world.
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Rust By Example: The FREE Interactive Way to Learn Rust
I continue to be interested in learning Rust, the programming language that's gaining ascendancy in the systems programming world. I reviewed The Rust Programming Language which is not a bad book but I didn't care for it, for reasons I outlined in a previous post. Since then, I've moved on to Rust Exercises, which a very cool course you can take for free.
Read MoreLinux From Scratch: The Best Way to Learn Linux the Hard Way
Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to build a complete Linux system from source code. You begin with an existing Linux system, create a clean build environment, compile a temporary toolchain, enter a chroot, and then build the real system piece by piece.
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