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Dasabo Acquired by Dasabo, and Then All Hell Broke Loose

Dasabo was acquired by Dasabo. That actually makes sense in context. What followed next, though, does not...

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Dasabo Acquired by Dasabo, and Then All Hell Broke Loose

Scaling a VPS Hosting Business Without Expanding Your Ops Team in 2026

Today's article was written by industry titan WebPros.  They're the force behind cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS, SolusVM and other solutions that power the hosting industry.  In this article, they're sharing both roadblocks to scaling and solutions to overcoming those obstacles. Learn how hosting providers scale VPS operations without increasing headcount using automation, structured workflows, and efficient infrastructure control.

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Scaling a VPS Hosting Business Without Expanding Your Ops Team in 2026

AtlasPing: Full-Featured Monitoring with a Generous Free Tier and an EXCLUSIVE OFFER for Our Readers!

Today we're featuring AtlasPing, a company based in Singapore that offers feature-packed monitoring for your website or server. Sign up and you can monitor ping or HTTPS, create notification rules and lists, and manage blackouts and maintenance windows all from their compact, easy-to-use web interface.  And they have a generous free tier! PLUS an EXCLUSIVE OFFER for our readers!

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AtlasPing: Full-Featured Monitoring with a Generous Free Tier and an EXCLUSIVE OFFER for Our Readers!

ALMOST GONE! Use This BONUS CODE for Your LAST CHANCE at ServerHost's Beelink PC Giveaway! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

ServerHost is sponsoring an amazing giveaway for our community! Win a Beelink EQR7 Mini PC and more! Now through May 15.

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ALMOST GONE! Use This BONUS CODE for Your LAST CHANCE at ServerHost's Beelink PC Giveaway! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

Is The Register About to Go Bust?

I came across an interesting post on a rather poorly-formatted blog known as TechRights.org about the precarious nature of The Register's finances. They look precarious.

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Is The Register About to Go Bust?

Why the "Remember When Google Removed Don't Be Evil?" Narrative is Wrong

Over the years, Google has slid into Big Tech Evil, and so to reflect their new sociopathic identity, they removed their Don't Be Evil motto. So now Google says it's OK for them to Do Evil. Right? Wrong.

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Servitro: Get a 4GB VPS for $4/Month - or $20/YEAR in Frankfurt, Germany! Bigger Deals, Too!

Servitro is back with another set of offers, including a deal for a 4GB VPS for $4/month - or $20/year. Also get a a 12GB VPS for $8/month. And more!

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Servitro: Get a 4GB VPS for $4/Month - or $20/YEAR in Frankfurt, Germany!  Bigger Deals, Too!

While The King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello From 1993

Sometimes I wake up at at 1am thinking about problems in my life.  Sometimes I think about things I have to do the coming day.  And then there are days when some almost-forgotten bit of code is just about to expire from my mental cache and decides it wants to take a stab at creating a new reference to itself in neural network.

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While The King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello From 1993

MAY THE FOURTH Help You Win With This BONUS CODE for ServerHost's Beelink PC Giveaway! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

ServerHost is sponsoring an amazing giveaway for our community! Win a Beelink EQR7 Mini PC and more! Now through May 15.

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MAY THE FOURTH Help You Win With This BONUS CODE for ServerHost's Beelink PC Giveaway! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

Welcome, Kainode! 16GB VPS for Only $7.48/Month in Singapore!

This is the first time we've featured Kainode, a provider that offers cheap VPS systems in Singapore.  How cheap?  Get an 8GB VPS for the price many providers charge for 4GB ($5.24/month!)

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Welcome, Kainode!  16GB VPS for Only $7.48/Month in Singapore!

Welcome, DataPasa! Cheap VPS in Falkenstein, Germany - 1GB for $1.79/Month!

Today, we're introducing you to DataPasa, who is only been around since January. They've got some nice deals in Falkenstein, Gernay - including a 1GB for only $1.79/month!

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Welcome, DataPasa!  Cheap VPS in Falkenstein, Germany - 1GB for $1.79/Month!

ServerHost LowEndBox Exclusive: 10 GB RAM VPS – Just $98.88 / Year!

ServerHost.com is back with another insane deal for power users who need serious performance on a budget: get a 10GB RAM VPS plan, a beast of a server for less than $8.25/month when paid annually!

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ServerHost LowEndBox Exclusive: 10 GB RAM VPS – Just $98.88 / Year!

On a Roll! HostPapa Continues Its Acquisition Spree by Adding Hostwinds to Its Portfolio

Just a a couple weeks ago, we covered HostPapa's acquisition of Tailor Made Services.  Now they've grown again, acquiring Hostwinds, a Seattle-based company that's been operating for 16 years.  Hostwinds offers shared, VPS, and other services.

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On a Roll!  HostPapa Continues Its Acquisition Spree by Adding Hostwinds to Its Portfolio

Achtung! Critical cPanel Vulnerability: Take Action Now!

The world's most popular (and expensive) web hosting panel is apparently vulnerable to anyone who decides to connect to your port 2087.

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Achtung! Critical cPanel Vulnerability: Take Action Now!

The Problems with Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs are a form of marketing where providers pay commissions to users who drive new subscribers to their site. In theory, it's a win-win for everyone.  In practice, practice is not the same as theory.

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The Problems with Affiliate Programs

Vim Fracturing Along LLM Lines - Is This the Dawn of a New Age of LLM vs. Non-LLM Codebases?

Vim has long been the standard edition of the venerable vi editor, which turns 50 this year. Both Vim and its successor, NeoVim, explicitly allow LLM contributions. There are those, however, who don't like that.

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Vim Fracturing Along LLM Lines - Is This the Dawn of a New Age of LLM vs. Non-LLM Codebases?

BONUS CODE: Get 10 Bonus Entries to Help You Win a Beelink PC ServerHost's Spring Giveaway! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

ServerHost is sponsoring an amazing giveaway for our community! Win a Beelink EQR7 Mini PC and more! Now through May 15.

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BONUS CODE: Get 10 Bonus Entries to Help You Win a Beelink PC ServerHost's Spring Giveaway! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

ByteHosting Still Has Some Cheap, High-RAM Offers! 14GB RAM VPS for Only €5.99/Month!

The RAM pricing crunch is hitting every provider hard, and ByteHosting is no exception. But they still have some cheap high-RAM VPS deals available in Frankfurt, Germany!

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ByteHosting Still Has Some Cheap, High-RAM Offers!  14GB RAM VPS for Only €5.99/Month!

LowEndBoxTV: The Cult of ForgeMind AI: True Belief, Sarah’s Purple Octopus, and the Quest for Immortality

We're super-excited to release our full-length documentary on ForgeMind, a controversial AI companion service that charges up to $10,000 to build an AI companion for you. It's all part of a scheme to grant their founder immortality.

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LowEndBoxTV: The Cult of ForgeMind AI: True Belief, Sarah’s Purple Octopus, and the Quest for Immortality

Model-Viewer-Controller? No, Route-Viewer-Controller! Concepts in Web Apps

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a very popular pattern for web application development. If you're new to web application design, you probably picked up a book and slogged through a chapter of academic discussion on the MVC paradigm/architecture.  These chapters often speak in baroque generalities instead of doing something obvious like tracing a request through the application. Let's look at RCV (route-controller-view) because that's how these apps actually work.

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Model-Viewer-Controller?  No, Route-Viewer-Controller!  Concepts in Web Apps

Too Many Formats: JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF vs. HEIC vs. WEBP

Go to any random web page and look at the source and you'll see a variety of image file formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and WEBP.  As a viewer, you don't care because your browser renders all of them.  But what if you're creating a web site?  Which do you want and when?

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Too Many Formats: JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF vs. HEIC vs. WEBP

You Should Update Your Debian System Every Night, Unattended and Automatic.

You should update your Debian system every night, unattended and automatic. Bold words!  But honestly I've done this since at least Debian 10 and have never had an issue. 

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You Should Update Your Debian System Every Night, Unattended and Automatic.

What Exactly is a Looking Glass and Why Should You Use One?

A lot of offers we publish here and on LowEndTalk refer to a "Looking Glass" or have a link to a "Looking Glass" for network info. What is that?

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What Exactly is a Looking Glass and Why Should You Use One?

HostPapa Completes Acquisition of Tailor Made Servers

HostPapa, a leading global web hosting and cloud service provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tailor Made Servers (“TMS”), a Dallas, Texas-based dedicated server hosting provider that has been serving businesses and resellers since 2003.

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HostPapa Completes Acquisition of Tailor Made Servers

RPiServers Lives Again! Get Your Own Dedicated Raspberry Pi Server in Houston, Texas

Last year, DataIdeas closed shop, and with them the original iteration of RPIServers. This week, Josh announced that RPIServers is reborn!

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RPiServers Lives Again!  Get Your Own Dedicated Raspberry Pi Server in Houston, Texas

Vibe-Drafting IETF Proposals is Now a Thing (The IPv8 Proposal)

I'm sure a lot of people are sitting around on any given day thinking "You know what the world needs? A brand new IP protocol.”  Because the every-so-slowly adoption of IPv6 is just not exciting enough. Fear not: a brand-new Draft titled “Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)” just landed.

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Vibe-Drafting IETF Proposals is Now a Thing (The IPv8 Proposal)

Win a Sweet Beelink EQR7 Mini PC in ServerHost's Spring Giveaway, Now Through May 15! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

ServerHost is sponsoring an amazing giveaway for our community! Win a Beelink EQR7 Mini PC and more! Now through May 15.

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Win a Sweet Beelink EQR7 Mini PC in ServerHost's Spring Giveaway, Now Through May 15! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!

Backblaze's "Betrayal": Silently Refusing to Backup Your Most Valuable Data

There's a rather screechy post making the rounds about a change in BackBlaze's backup policies. The author uses words like "betrayal", "furious", "alarmed", and other such superlatives.  Whether this is really the worst thing since World War II, I will leave for you to decide.  But it is disappointing, for sure.

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