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HostSailor Greenhouse (NL) Fujitsu Primergy Dedicated Server Review

HostSailor is a well established Low End provider. They joined Low End Talk over eight years ago in April 2014. As of this writing, HostSailor has started 85 Low End Talk discussions and commented 355 times. HostSailor has been thanked 183 times. HostSailor provides many kinds of services, including domain registration, web hosting, virtual and dedicated servers, colocation, domain names, and SSL certificates. They accept...

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HostSailor Greenhouse (NL) Fujitsu Primergy Dedicated Server Review

How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?

About Gzip And Tar Everybody on Linux and BSD seems to use a program called gzip, frequently in conjunction with another program called tar. Tar, named from Tape ARchive, is a program which copies fil...

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How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?

How To Move Your Site To Oracle Cloud Free Tier With scp(1)

Recently I wanted to take advantage of Oracle's Free Tier to serve my Low End website for free. By moving to Oracle Free Tier, I now save the $5 per month which was paying for the VPS on which my site...

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How To Move Your Site To Oracle Cloud Free Tier With scp(1)

How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Back in March, LEB published Asking the Oracle, "Is 'Always Free' the future of the Low End?" The March article pointed out one of the main features of Oracle Cloud Free Tier: no credit card is requir...

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How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier

What You Need to Know About Buying A Hetzner Auction Server

It's like eBay for cheap dedicated servers!

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What You Need to Know About Buying A Hetzner Auction Server

What Happens When Your Site's DNS Goes Down?

SPOILER ALERT: It isn't pretty. When DNS becomes unreachable your website will experience downtime. Read more to see what I learned after a recent 9 hour outage to one of my websites.

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What Happens When Your Site's DNS Goes Down?

Porkbun Virtual Office Tour -- Alex, Eddie, and Andy

Hello from New York City and Mexico! Here is another fun guest article contributed by Eddie Barksdale from Porkbun. Low End Box and @Not_Oles appreciate this personalized look inside the home offices...

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Porkbun Virtual Office Tour -- Alex, Eddie, and Andy

More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan.  Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing.  They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello!...

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More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

Use Arc Forum Or Anarki To Make Your Own Hacker News!

Back in March @Not_Oles invited people from Low End Box to join a study group for MIT's Operating System Engineering course, which is available for free online. Just recently, a group of fifteen actua...

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Use Arc Forum Or Anarki To Make Your Own Hacker News!

Review of GTHost Servers -- Part II

Hello again! Welcome to Part II of our Low End Box Review of well known Low End provider GTHost. GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As previously reported in P...

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Review of GTHost Servers -- Part II

Certbun, An Easier Alternative To Certbot, From Porkbun

Low End Box and @Not_Oles thank Porkbun and Eddie Barksdale for providing this guest post about Certbun, Porkbun's alternative to Certbot. "Why should I use Certbun rather than Certbot," you ask? @Not...

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Certbun, An Easier Alternative To Certbot, From Porkbun

Vim rewritten in Javascript! Linux Inside A Web Browser!

We all love our favorite editor or IDE! Over the years, I've learned that folks especially love the ed editor, vim, emacs, and too many others to list. Apologies if I didn't mention your favorite edit...

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Vim rewritten in Javascript! Linux Inside A Web Browser!

Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Well known Low End regular GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As reported below, we successfully installed multiple servers in multiple locations with great re...

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Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Interview with Phillip, Support Manager at Porkbun!

I moved my domains over to Porkbun a while ago.  Excited to read this!  -raindog308 Oink! Porkbun is great! Way beyond great! Unbelievably great! People will think I'm crazy, head over heels in love w...

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Interview with Phillip, Support Manager at Porkbun!

Three New Virtono Locations With 25% Lifetime Discount - Interview With Daniel Draga, VP

Wow! Virtono has been on Low End Talk since 2014! They have a lot of Low End experience! And, they'...

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Three New Virtono Locations With 25% Lifetime Discount - Interview With Daniel Draga, VP

So Many Cheap Dedicated Servers On Sale At Low End Talk Right Now!

Hello from Sonora! 🏜️ One important part of the Low End Experience is cheap dedicated servers! Dedicated servers, often called "dedis" have been one of the main interests here on the Low End. During r...

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So Many Cheap Dedicated Servers On Sale At Low End Talk Right Now!

New! FiberVM Singapore LXC VPS Discount From CloudV!

When I woke up this morning I was interested to see a nice FiberVM LXC VPS offer from LET Patron Provider @CloudV. CloudV asked us to feature their LET offer here on LEB, and we are delighted to do so...

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New! FiberVM Singapore LXC VPS Discount From CloudV!

Interview with John Lewis of SwiftModders

SwiftModders provides premium pre-made WHMCS themes and Blesta themes for web hosting providers. SwiftModders also specializes in custom WHMCS themes, Blesta themes, and WordPress development services...

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Interview with John Lewis of SwiftModders

Free! 8 vCPUs And 32GB RAM! -- Coming Soon From Google Cloud!

In today's Google Cloud Blog Post, Product Managers Subra Chandramouli and Jamie Kinney announced plans for expanding the use of Arm® architecture CPUs at Google Cloud. Following last year's introduct...

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Free! 8 vCPUs And 32GB RAM! -- Coming Soon From Google Cloud!

Should We Use This Template For Your Low End Box Interview?

One of the things I love the most about my job as Content Creator here at Low End Box is doing some of our Interviews! It's really fun for me to meet our friendly members and providers. I like getting...

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Should We Use This Template For Your Low End Box Interview?

An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Just recently we were introducing our newer Low Enders to Hacker News ("HN"). Now, suddenly, we have news of a doubled, double disk failure over there at HN. The doubled, double disk failure took HN d...

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An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

How To Check ECC Memory On A Hetzner Dedicated Server

Recently we've been discussing getting started on a new VPS or dedicated server. Specific topics have included updating the operating system and configuring ssh, running a yabs benchmark, and checking...

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How To Check ECC Memory On A Hetzner Dedicated Server

How Providers Can Get Free Advertising and SEO On Low End Box!

Thousands Of People Visit Low End Box Every Day! Through its advertisements, offers, interviews, and industry news, Low End Box gives readers the cheapest, best, and most current Low End hosting, VPS,...

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How Providers Can Get Free Advertising and SEO On Low End Box!

How To Fix A CertBot CAA Error Blaming Your Nameservers

This post discusses how to resolve a possible Certbot error. Certbot can fail to install a Let's Encrypt certificate when the certificate is requested for a subdomain in situations where a DNS Certifi...

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How To Fix A CertBot CAA Error Blaming Your Nameservers

How To Check Hard Drives On A Hetzner Dedicated Server

Recently we posted How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server. That post discussed our first steps on a new server, including updating the operating system and configuring sshd. Next we posted a...

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How To Check Hard Drives On A Hetzner Dedicated Server

Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Today, June 30, PayPal sent me three emails. The first wants me to check the May activity for my company's business account. The second wants me to "take my business online with a PayPal partner." And...

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Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Introduction to Hacker News ("HN")

Besides Low End Box and Low End Talk, one of the great joys of my days has been reading Hacker News. Anybody interested in computers and the internet will find Hacker News, always referred to as "HN,"...

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Introduction to Hacker News (

Interview with Low End Talk Member @stevewatson301!

One of the best parts of being a member over at Low End Talk is getting to know the other members. Today we're featuring an interview with well known and well liked Low End Talk member @stevewatson301...

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Interview with Low End Talk Member @stevewatson301!
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