Would you like your own self-hosted disposable email? It's marvelously useful and Inbucket makes it easy. Let's do this!
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Nearly a year ago, the newest site in the LowEnd family launched: ServerVerify! This site is the largest collection of YABS (Yet Another Benchmark Script) benchmarks on the planet, with over 10,000 user-submitted reports in its database. This project had been a dream of LowEnd owner Jon Biloh's for quite a while and it's been a huge success. Let's check in on how it's going and what the future holds.
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ServerHost is addicted to giving back to our community! Not only do they love bringing us great deals but they also love bringing us cool prizes YOU can win in their giveaways. Last month they gave away a MacBook Neo. This week they're giving away a fantastic nerd toy: a UGREEN NASync DH2300 2-Bay NAS! Plus get a 2GB VPS for only $16.99/year!
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Today we're sharing a guest post from CloudLinux, a company which needs no introduction in our community. Their foundation OS gives web hosts the essential tools and solutions to deliver faster, more reliable, and secure websites. As a customer, I prefer providers who use CloudLinux because it's a more stable, more secure hosting experience. They also offer Immunify360, KernelCare, and other products which allow hosting providers to offer world-class solutions to their customers.
Read More about Why Managed VPS Plans Need a Security and Isolation Layer
Recently I've seen comments on Reddit from some from Guardian Angel AI promoting their product. It looks to be an excellent way for its owners to go bankrupt.
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Welcome, Cloudblast! Besides having a really cool name, they've also got some blow-your-socks off deals for us. How does a 4GB VPS for €4.03/month strike you? What if I told you it also came with unlimited bandwidth? And a 10Gbps uplink? And IPv6? Go get your socks, we'll wait.
Read More about Cloudblast: 4GB VPS for Only €4.03/Month in USA, NL, and Hong Kong With UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH!
Every week. Constantly. Still. People losing their data because they didn't back it up.
Read More about Please, for the Love of Your Data and Your Own Sanity, Keep Off-Site Backups!
A little over a year from now - on August 27, 2027 - we will experience a solar eclipse lasting over six minutes. Six minutes and 23.2 seconds to be precise. If you miss it, you'll have to wait until 2114 to see one as long.
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Congrats to Porkbun on reaching 4 million domains under management. Even more interesting is the growth of customers and how their whole strategy is succeeding.
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Godlike.host ran an offer back in June, and it ran into some problems. But they're ready to make it up to our community with a special offer.
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Everyone loves a good dedicated server deal! And ColoCrossing is here to supply them. They've got dedicated servers starting at just $25/month! And that's with 32GB of RAM, 1TB of disk, and 40TB of bandwidth.
Read More about ColoCrossing’s Dedicated Server Sale Features Systems as Low as $25/Month! Los Angeles and Buffalo!
RareCloud is back with a major platform rebuild, replacing WHMCS with an in-house console and launching a new OpenStack-powered cloud featuring hourly Cloud VMs, Managed Kubernetes, and developer-focused automation. The new platform includes a public API, Terraform provider, CLI, and MCP server, making it easy to manage infrastructure through code or AI tools. To mark the relaunch, RareCloud is offering LowEndBox readers up to 4x bonus account credit on their first top-up!r
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core-js is a popular - very popular - Javascript package which is the epitome of the XKCD "one man in Nebraska maintains a package that underpins the whole Internet" phenomenon. Its history is a somewhat amazing - and rather cautionary - tale about how pride of ownership can blind someone to nearly anything.
Read More about The Tragedy of core-js: an Opinionated Take on Why Denis Pushkarev Needs to Let It Go
CVE-2026-58048 "Database Privilege Escalation" is making the rounds. If you haven't seen it, be advised that your cPanel is probably vulnerable. It affects at least all supported versions.
Read More about So What’s Up With That New cPanel Database Vulnerability?
Recently, IBM's shares took a heart-stopping plunge of 25% in a single day. Their CEO is on a mission to distract investors from the company's disastrous performance. His technique: throwing big potential sales numbers around when talking about quantum computing. Should you believe the hype?
Read More about Quantum Computing: You Need to Parse That Trillion-Dollar IBM Statement Very Carefully
Remember the weird world of Pickup Artists from the mid-2000s? We have an update for you. One of their gurus has fallen prey to AI psychosis.
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Back in 2024, Leupold Aschenbrenner published Situational Awareness, which we here at LowEndBox termed "The Best Read of the Year". Two years later, he's bankrupt.
Read More about Deep Intel on the Three Reasons Situational Awareness Imploded
Win a MacBook Neo and ServerHost credit in our July giveaway! And check out these new i9/Ryzen offers!
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Every since AI company's destructive scanning initiatives were reported, there has been endless wailing and gnashing of teeth over it, mostly from bibliophiles who bemoan the destruction of rare tomes. My social media feeds have blown up with screeching about how the fruit of human knowledge is being tossed into the AI incinerator, countless generations will be deprived of these priceless tomes, soon libraries will be empty, etc. Let's take a deep breath.
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Should you send thousands of Euros to Copytrack when they contact you about unauthorized image use? In a word: nein.
Read More about The Copytrack Scam: “Suspicion of Unauthorised Image Use”
Tribblix is a Solaris-derived operating system distribution that draws from OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, and illumos. It's a different world than Linux or the BSDs. Let's take a look.
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Win a MacBook Neo and ServerHost credit in our July giveaway! And check out these new i9/Ryzen offers!
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Let's look at why AI adoption has been very slow in several different Fortune 500 companies. The main reason is that it adds cost rather than reduces it, which is the opposite of what's supposed to happen.
Read More about The Economics of AI and Why Cost-Conscious Companies Hate It
Since the 80s, like clockwork, there's a new big trend in IT every decade. What will the trend of the 2030s be?
Read More about What Will Be the Sixth Epoch of Computing?
I was chatting with my eldest daughter, a software dev, last night and we got on the topic of LinkedIn recruiters. Some of the tactics used by these people are familiar to anyone who's been looking for a job. But now there's a new risk.
Read More about The Contagious Interview: The Slimeyness of LinkedIn is Truly Becoming Next Level
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.
Read More about Is LowEndBox Written by AI? No!
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.
Read More about Why Oracle’s Trouble in Wisconsin Is a Big Deal
We recently sat down with M'Barek Dhibi, CEO of Pawnhoster, to learn more about this emerging company and what they offer in shared - and soon VPS - hosting.
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