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Jul 30, 2021

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Rocky Linux offered their first official release (8.4) on June 21st and now providers are adding it as an option to their hosting platforms. If you're not familiar, Rocky Linux is CentOS Reborn. You...

Community News: Rocky Linux OS Now Available on RackNerd’s Platform!

“A Badass Provider I Recommend”: Former LET Admin About 1GServers Dual e5 Special!

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Jul 30, 2021

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Normally, providers choose whether to post on LowEndBox, and submit offers for our readers. From time to time, we also choose to highlight offers posted on our sister site, LowEndTalk....

RawSRV: Now in Miami! (2GB VPS with Unmetered Bandwidth for $9.50/mo!)

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Jul 29, 2021

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RawSRV has returned! We last featured them back on June 13, 2021. They provide "no frills VPS hosting" in both Los Angeles and Miami and this time they've got an exclusive LEB coupon. For $9.50 per m...

RawSRV: Now in Miami! (2GB VPS with Unmetered Bandwidth for $9.50/mo!)

Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

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Jul 28, 2021

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In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS's egress fees are too high. According to CF's calculations, customers are paying: 80 times Amazon's costs in the US, Canada, and Europe...

Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

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Jul 28, 2021

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I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen a...

Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

SmallWeb Suffers “Catastrophic Data Loss” in London

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Jul 27, 2021

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A user on LowEndTalk reported that shared hosting provider SmallWeb has emailed customers to report that their London shared hosting has suffered a "catastrophic data loss". "Dear friend, At 6:03PM UK...

SmallWeb Suffers “Catastrophic Data Loss” in London

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

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Jul 27, 2021

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Hello, Boomer.Host! Some hosts are deadly serious when it comes to their names and some prefer a bit of humor and I don't have to tell you which category Boomer.Host falls into. However the proprieto...

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

IncogNet: 50% Off with Crypto Payment Until July 31!

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Jul 26, 2021

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Normally, providers choose whether to post on LowEndBox, and submit offers for our readers. From time to time, we also choose to highlight offers posted on our sister site, LowEndTalk....

How to Verify WHMCS Licenses

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Jul 26, 2021

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When new provider submit offers, one of the many checks we perform is to see if their WHMCS license is valid (assuming they're using WHMCS of course). Generally about once a month we get an offer from...

RackSpace Lays Off 10% of its Workforce

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Jul 25, 2021

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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rackspace announced Friday that they are laying off 10% of their workforce. "On July 21, 2021, the Company [Rackspace] committed to an inter...

LowEndBox Weekend Update for July 24, 2021

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Jul 24, 2021

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This week we covered free cookies (that you don't want), hard drives driven hard, cyber insurers driven crazy, Afrinic crackdowns, and more! We also had an interview, three tutorials, multiple offers,...

LowEndBox Weekend Update for July 24, 2021

RackNerd – Los Angeles KVM VPS – Get a 2.8 GB RAM VPS with 58 GB SSD for Only $29.99/Year!

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Jul 24, 2021

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RackNerd is back to share some promotions with us out of their Los Angeles location. These offers are powered by pure SSD’s and Dual Intel Xeon processors. This datacenter has an optimized network mix...

RackNerd – Los Angeles KVM VPS – Get a 2.8 GB RAM VPS with 58 GB SSD for Only $29.99/Year!

Motoring to Market Mastery in Motown: Interview with Joe Green of ManagedWay

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Jul 23, 2021

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Our interview series has featured a lot of industry leaders and we continue today by talking with Joe Green, Director of Product Management for ManagedWay. In this interview, you'll learn how the comp...

Outage at Akamai Takes Down Major Internet Sites

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Jul 22, 2021

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Akamai, a leading global content delivery network, was responsible for an outage today which impacted large portions of the Internet, including popular websites FedEx, UPS, Home Depot, and many others...

Outage at Akamai Takes Down Major Internet Sites

AFRINIC Cracks Down on IP Fraud

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Jul 22, 2021

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AFRINIC (the Regional Internet Authority for Africa which controls allocations of IP addresses on that continent) appears to be cracking down on people who obtain African IPs and use them elewhere. Co...

AccuWebHosting: VPS, Dedi, and Shared Hosting in 14 Locations!

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Jul 21, 2021

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AccuWebHosting contacted us to offer a full range of offers - VPS, dedicated, and shared hosting. These are available in: N. Virginia, USA Ohio, USA Oregon, USA Denver, Colorado, USA Mumbai, India Se...

AccuWebHosting: VPS, Dedi, and Shared Hosting in 14 Locations!

How to Check Out Your Dedicated Server’s Hard Drive

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Jul 21, 2021

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With the rise of Chia farming, many hard drives provisioned in LowEnd dedicated servers are arriving having suffered phenomenal (ab)use. Sure, your dedi provider is usually on the hook to replace if...

How to Check Out Your Dedicated Server’s Hard Drive

How to Stiff-Arm Brutes and Protect Your Server with Fail2Ban

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Jul 20, 2021

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Bruce force attacks are attempts to guess common passwords by repeatedly trying to login to your server. SSH is the most common target but FTP, IMAP, POP3, and other password-based systems can be tar...

How to Stiff-Arm Brutes and Protect Your Server with Fail2Ban

Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

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Jul 20, 2021

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Loss ratios in the cyber insurance world have skyrocketed in recent years - surging 400% year over year. They have hit 70% of paid premiums, which some industry commentators are saying is unsustainab...

Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

HostSailor: DDos-Protected Dedicated Servers in the Netherlands Starting at $68.95!

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Jul 19, 2021

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HostSailor had a special sale back on July 4 and now they'd like to augment their listings with another dedicated server offer. Last time they were offering service in Romania - this time it's the Ne...

HostSailor: DDos-Protected Dedicated Servers in the Netherlands Starting at $68.95!

Chia Crypto Farming Wreaks Havoc in the Hard Drive Market

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Jul 19, 2021

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Popular cryptocoin Chia has been wreaking havoc in the hard drive market of late, chewing up all available supplies in some markets as miners - er, farmers - look for capacity to work the crypto algor...

Chia Crypto Farming Wreaks Havoc in the Hard Drive Market

Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

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Jul 18, 2021

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Tarsnap is a cloud backup company that emphasize strong cryptography. It's the brainchild of Dr. Colin Percival, former FreeBSD security officer. Its motto is "online backups for the truly paranoid" a...

Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

Beware Black Hat Cookie Stuffing Affiliate Marketing

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Jul 18, 2021

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Hey, you just browsed my site And this is a crazy Here's a cookie you didn't ask for So make me some money maybe! -- Cookie Monster, Share It Maybe (sort of) In the LowEnd hosting world, many provider...

Beware Black Hat Cookie Stuffing Affiliate Marketing

LowEndBoxTV Weekend Update for July 17, 2021

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Jul 17, 2021

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This week we review some breaking news a provider let slip on LowEndTalk, our first-ever offer for hosting on Cyprus, cheap vps offers from around the world, an update on the involucration saga, plus...

LowEndBoxTV Weekend Update for July 17, 2021

Celebrate Black Friday in July with LosAngelesVPS’s 50% Off Sale!

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Jul 16, 2021

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LosAngelesVPS is back! We last had them on back on February 26, 2021. This time they've got some great VPS offers with their Black Friday in July offer! Get a 1GB VPS with unmetered bandwidth and 1...

Celebrate Black Friday in July with LosAngelesVPS’s 50% Off Sale!

Custom-Built for Success: Interview with Radic Davydov, CEO of ReliableSite

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Jul 15, 2021

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