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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Read MoreBackblaze'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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Not Just Cheap VPS Offers: Luxvps Has Cheap Shared Web Hosting Deals in Germany!
Luxvps is well-known as our community as a provider of big-RAM VPS systems. But now they're also offering cheap web hosting, too! These offers feature the Plesk control panel and unmetered bandwidth.
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I Should Have Read Further: Small Models Find the Same Bugs as the Vaunted Claude Mythos
Yesterday, we talked about how Calude's Mythos model is over-hyped. I should have googled a little further because there's a great piece of evidence out there.
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Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos's Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
Is Claude's new AI model, Mythos, really so incredibly godlike that it's a threat to the Internet? I wish this one was on Polymarket.
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Mango Mail's Spring Sale Has Begun! Get 35% OFF With This Code: 30GB Plan is Only $3.50/Month!
Mango Mail has launched their spring sale and they have a great deal on high quality, feature-packed email hosting. Get 35% OFF if you use the code below That makes their 30GB plan only $3.50/mo! Or i...
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RackNerd Ranks #90 on 2026 Inc. Regionals Pacific List! 3 Years in a Row – Check Out Their Latest VPS Deals
Our community has been following RackNerd’s growth for quite some time now. Since first appearing on LowEndBox back in 2020, they’ve continued to build a strong reputation among our readers, and they’ve consistently shown up with both solid deals and impressive milestones. And speaking of milestones, RackNerd has officially been ranked #90 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Pacific list!
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 5: SillyTavern Tutorial! Setup, Config, How to Write a Character Card, and MORE!
We're in the middle of a series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
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The Post-Quantum Era Begins in 2029
Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
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The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People's Souls to Moderate Online Content
Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
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LowEndLOLs: Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
So about those company names and CEO last names...
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 4: Pitfalls and Problems
We're in the middle of a series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
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Want to Guess How Many Spam Comments We've Blocked Since 2016?
LowEndBox has been live since February 1, 2008. In those 16 years, we've had 6,264 posts published (including this one) with a total of 129,351 approved comments. And how many spam comments?
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Getting Calendar Spam? Me, Too. Here's How I Fixed It.
Starting a month or so ago, I started getting meetings popping up on my calendar, like the one shown to the left. Out of nowhere, I'd get a reminder telling me that I had a meeting that was about to start. It was very annoying, but thinking through how they were sending this junk made the solution obvious.
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Not April Fools: Microsoft Says Copilot is for "Entertainment Purposes Only"
Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
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