Vote For Your Favorite RackNerd Location and Get FREE Entries in RackNerd's Halloween Giveaway!
Where do you like to put your RackNerd VMs? That's the question in our poll...and by voting, you get five FREE bonus entries in our giveaway! LA, San Jose, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, or Ashburn - which do you prefer?
Read More How Do You Think LowEndTalk Moderators Are Doing?
Being a LowEndTalk moderator is not an easy job. How do you think they're doing?
Read More Our Most Popular Page Has Been Updated! Super Cheap VPS Offers!
We've updated our collection of providers offering $1-a-month VPS systems. Check 'em out!
Read More Google Says AI Is a Lot More Important Than Saving the Planet
Google is going gangbusters for green...right? They were, until the next shiny thing came along.
Read More Luxvps: Cheap VPS Deals (€4.05 for 4GB!) PLUS an Important Question for You
Luxvps has some fantastic deals and a special discount code for their Gen2 KVM Rootservers. Plus they're looking for feedback from YOU on where they should go for their next datacenter location.
Read More You Can Win AMAZING Prizes in LowEndTalk's Top Provider Poll!
Want to win a Steam Deck, smart TV, Nintendo switch, mini PC, smart ring, or something else fabulous? Then you need to participate in LowEndTalk's Top Provider poll, going on now through the end of January.
Read More Five Tech Predictions for 2024
There will be more hacks, breaches, and leaks. AI will grow and become even more obnoxious. Europe will issue new regulations. But besides those obvious trends...
Read More The Unbelievably Fumbled Rebranding of Twitter
Twitter is now known as X. Actually, it's now known as "X, formerly known as Twitter" because "X" has zero brand and the Twitter brand is still iconic. A cautionary tale.
Read More Rumors Circulate About DediPath’s Database Being Sold
Over here at LowEndBox, we've been covering the entire DediPath bankruptcy situation since it was only skepticism. Most recently, we covered DediPath's official closure at the end of August, and it al...
Read More What We Publish
LowEndBox publishes articles and offers about a variety of content categories. Check out everything we write about in the content breakdown below: Advice Community Offers Dead Pool Giveaways Interview...
Read More ReliableVPS: Cheap VPS Offer in Manhattan, New York City...and Maybe London Next?
ReliableVPS has an awesome offer in Manhattan. Cheap VPS systems start with a 2GB RAM system for only $12/6 months. Read on for details and learn how to get an even better deal by participating in their LowEndTalk thread!
Read More User Protests and Hacker Demands Are Not Even the Worst Reddit Dumpster Fire Today
If you thought warring with users, canceling third party apps, site protests, and hackers demanding ransom were the worst things going on at Reddit, you're a bit behind in the news.
Read More Leaked Memo: Reddit Announces Will No Longer Allow Private Subreddits...?
The change is logical given developments with the blackouts. Read the draft announcement.
Read More POLL: Leaked Memo Shows Reddit CEO Bored by Blackout: Do You Think It's an Act?
The Reddit CEO wrote a memo giving his reaction to the blackout protest and it was immediately leaked to the press. After reading it, do you think he really believes what he wrote or is he just trying to put on a brave face?
Read More Subreddits Go on Strike
In a widespread act of protest, thousands of the most popular subreddits have gone private, blocking visitors and in some cases disallowing new threads. This is being done to protest Reddit's API policy, which is killing third party apps.
Read More Reddit Is About To Go Public, So They're Pushing Their Users Away (And Killing Third-Party Apps)
Reddit is preparing to go public. Again. This time they're hoping to raise only 44% of what they were looking for the previous time. To make sure the IPO is successful, they're making moves to...drive their users away?! The new API fees seem to guarantee a shrinking user base just when Reddit is going under the magnifying glass.
Read More Three Reasons Why ChatGPT Won't Take Developer Jobs
Are you worried that generative AI (ChatGPT, etc.) is going to take away developer jobs? Or maybe replace them entirely? Is starting a developer career in 2023 like starting as a buggy whip apprentice in 1890? Here's three arguments against the worry, and a chance for you to agree or disagree.
Read More POLL: Are You Excited or Terrified by Generative AI?
How you feel about the new wave of generative AI? Are you excited or terrified? Let us know!
Read More The Vultr Free Tier is Here! Here's All the Details
Did someone say "free VPS"? Vultr did! They've unveiled a new free tier. Details are still coming into focus but we've got the details and links for you!
Read More POLL: Which PHP Frameworks Are You Using in 2023?
It's 2023 and by some measures, 77% of all web sites are powered by PHP. I'm not sure it's quite that high, though if you think about every Wordpress site, maybe... I've been coding a small-volume AP...
Read More Still Time to Win a TV, Igloo Cooler, Roku Express, and More from ServerHub!
Community provider ServerHub is running a fantastic giveaway for our community! Enter for a chance to win a 55" Roku TV, an Igloo cooler, Roku Express streamers, or ServerHub account credit, now through the SuperBowl!
Read More Who Will Win Superbowl LVII? Predict and Get Bonus Giveaway Entries!
Do you think the Kansas City Chiefs are going to crush the Philadelphia Eagles? Or will the Eagles stomp the Chiefs? Let us know in this poll - and get bonus entries in the ServerHub giveaway as a thank you!
Read More Vote for the Cheesiest Porkbun Headline While You SAVE SAVE SAVE on Domains!
Our friends over at Porkbun are having a Black Friday sale! They're awesome to work with and besides giving us great art to use, they also gave suggested the following cheesy headline. Which do you prefer? Let us know, and then go check out their sale!
Read More Ten Years in the Making: The Maounique Interview!
@Maounique has been a member of LowEndTalk for 10 years. I think of him as one of the moral centers of gravity in the community. You may disagree with him but you'll always know where you stand with...
Read More POLL: Are Ad Blockers Ruining the Internet or a Vital Tool?
Do you use an ad blocker? Do you whitelist LowEndBox and LowEndTalk? Do you have switch back and forth between "blocking" and "non-blocking" browsers? Or do you just consume the Internet in its raw, unfiltered glory? We want to hear from you!
Read More Review: React for Beginners by Wes Bos (Plus FREE Javascript and Markdown Courses You Can Take!)
I've recently been writing some web apps. I'm not a web pro, but have done software development non-professionally since before the personal computer existed. Back when I started emitting HTML in th...
Read More POLL: OVH IPv4 Pricing Apocalypse! If Your Provider Begs, What Will You Say?
The LowEnd community was rocked today by news that OVH is substantially increasing IPv4 prices. The OVH blog has a table showing the impact for different IP block sizes, which is strange since the pri...
Read More Create Jaw-Dropping Dashboards Using Grafana (on a Raspberry Pi!)
Recently, my family acquired a gecko. A crested gecko, to be specific. Our little guy started life as a classroom pet. He came in a rather sad, small Walmart Pet Department-level terrarium. We set...
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