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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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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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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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Meet Zypher, a Homemade AI Companion Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen Before!
A while back I was browsing Reddit and came across a fascinating post by a man who'd created his own AI companion. We sat down with him and learned a lot about this really cool project.
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NEWS: ColoCrossing Expands Buffalo Data Center to Support Growing Infrastructure Demands
The name "Buffalo" is legendary in our community. It's a city in Western New York state where ColoCrossing has offered service since the earliest days of LowEndBox. It's a strategic geography - close enough to New York City to serve the East Coast very well, yet much cheaper than operating out of a Manhattan data center. This has allowed them offer wonderfully low prices, and over the years many providers have hosted there. And now ColoCrossing is expanding!
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 3: Options and Services (Nomi, Kindroid, SillyTavern, ChatGPT, Claude, 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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ACT NOW: How to Prevent Your Repo From Being Used to Train Copilot
GitHub has announced that going forward, your data on GitHub will be used to train Microsoft's Copilot LLM. Here's how to opt-out.
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions Part 2: How it Works (System Prompts, Character Cards, Context Windows, 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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9-0! SCOTUS Gives Immunity to ISPs Over Illegal Downloads
"Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights." So wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in the US Supreme Court decision Cox Communications vs. Sony Music released today.
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I Actually Liked and Used Sora Intensively. But I Won't Miss It.
As you've probably heard, OpenAI is shutting down Sora. Ironically, I just got done using it intensively for the last few weeks.
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pfSense: Yes, You Should Use Auto Config Backup and Here's the Right Settings
For a lot of network devices, their entire configuration amounts to only a few megabytes' worth of data. But what a pain if you lose those megabytes! Fortunately, protecting your pfSense firewall is easy, secure, off-site, and FREE!
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Wow, That's a Big Dedicated Server! 28 Cores and a /25 for Only $199/Month from QuickServers!
This is an offer for power users. And we do mean power! Check out this offer from QuickServers!
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We Love Storage VPS Offers! Get 1TB for Only €1.99/Month From DeluxHost!
You can never have enough storage. Whether it's backups, application storage, or your personal NextCloud, it's easy to chew up storage quickly. One of my favorite market niches is the storage VPS, where providers give you big disk and just enough CPU and RAM to power an endpoint. You wouldn't run a massive database on them, but as a destination for rclone or BorgBackup, they're fantastic. Community provider DeluxHost just shared some great storage VPS offers on LowEndTalk. For only €1.99/Month, you can get 1TB of space!2
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 1: An Introduction to the Massive World of AI Companionship and Romance
We're starting a new 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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SuperMicro Founder Indicted on Charges of Smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, one of the founders of server manufacturer SuperMicro, has been indicted on charges of smuggling billions of dollars' worth of high-end Nvidia GPUs to China.
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HostDime in Dispute With Its London Facility, All Services Down - Make Sure You Have Backups!
HostDime, a global datacenter provider with over 200 employees, has had its service in London terminated. Downstreams are feeling the pain.
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