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Those Spam Texts Are Coming From Twilio: They've Been Hacked

Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is a messaging platform with a nice API.  I used it last year to setup an Eliza-like SMS auto-responder to amuse my daughter while traveling.  With simple code, you can setup automated or responsive SMS (and other messaging platform) texting. Obviously, if this platform was subverted, th...

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Those Spam Texts Are Coming From Twilio: They've Been Hacked

WARNING: PikaPods are Addictive!

I've been wanting to give PikaPods a spin ever since we interviewed their founder.  The one-sentence summary of PikaPods is: packaged apps on individual containers and you pay by the app. I wanted to...

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WARNING: PikaPods are Addictive!

Visa/MC Cuts off PornHub Due to Child Pornography

Both Visa and MasterCard cut off payment processing for TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of MindGeek, the proprietor of pornography site PornHub.  There is a pending lawsuit which claims that Visa "k...

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Visa/MC Cuts off PornHub Due to Child Pornography

Cut Your Cloud Storage Bill by 75% with Internxt! Special Recurring Deal!

We've talked about Internxt before.  We interviewed their founder/CEO and shared a previous offer from them back in May. Now they've returned and want to share a RECURRING HALF OFF deal!  Yes, really!...

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Cut Your Cloud Storage Bill by 75% with Internxt!  Special Recurring Deal!

OVH Chops Network Promise in Half, So Customer Returns 30 Servers

We had an interesting story play out on LowEndTalk recently about OVH and their game server offering. OVH has really had a powerful offering in this space.  Because of their size and efficiency and ma...

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OVH Chops Network Promise in Half, So Customer Returns 30 Servers

DDoS Attacks are 100 Times Worse Compared to Last Year

According to a recent Kaspersky report, DDoS attacks have gotten much worse over the last 12 months. According to the report: The average duration of a DDoS attack in Q2 was about 3000 minutes (roughl...

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DDoS Attacks are 100 Times Worse Compared to Last Year

Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash? They're Asking

News this week broke that both Apple and Meta are both taking out huge loans. Apple is borrowing $5.5 billion, and Meta is borrowing $10 billion.  Both are for "general corporate purposes, share repur...

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Can You Lend Apple and Meta Some Cash?  They're Asking

VirMach Teeters at the Edge

Interesting discussion on LowEndTalk over the last week about Virmach, a provider that has been sharing offers with our community for quite a while. Several users are reporting issues.  Their Looking...

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VirMach Teeters at the Edge

Crunchbits: 2TB Bandwidth for $2.42/Month in Spokane, WA!

Community provider Crunchbits posted a nice offer on LowEndTalk for some VMs in Spokane, Washington. I checked and...I think this is our first offer in Spokane!  Thank you for Crunchbits for taking us...

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Crunchbits: 2TB Bandwidth for $2.42/Month in Spokane, WA!

Don't Tell Jon I Shared This Code With You

We put a video on TikTok with a giveaway bonus code.  Naturally, as LowEndBox management surveys their enterprise from their lofty corporate jets, they want to put that code only on TikTok so later th...

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Don't Tell Jon I Shared This Code With You

BOGO Cheap Dedicated Servers?!? Whaaaaaat?!?

Community provider ReliableSite continues to bring amazing value to our community. Check out their latest thread on LowEndTalk: buy a cheap dedi server, get a second one FREE! All kinds of systems ava...

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BOGO Cheap Dedicated Servers?!?  Whaaaaaat?!?

The Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2022 Q2 Are Here!

Backblaze is a cloud storage/backup company that has done some interesting things with its storage.  They innovated the Backblaze Storage Pod: "Offering both an unlimited online backup service and the...

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The Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2022 Q2 Are Here!

Win Amazing Prizes in RackNerd's Massive Summer Giveaway!

It's been a few months since we've done a giveaway and now community provider RackNerd has stepped up to the bat with an awesome giveaway!  How awesome?  Check these prizes! Enter for a chance to win...

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Win Amazing Prizes in RackNerd's Massive Summer Giveaway!

Let's Cross-Synergize Our Social Media Presences!

Confession time: we want to grow our social media presence.  Besides the economic reasons, it's also part of our core mission to educate people who are paying way too much for hosting services.  Someo...

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Let's Cross-Synergize Our Social Media Presences!

RackNerd - 1 GB RAM KVM VPS $14.88/Year, and more! Available in Multiple Locations

RackNerd is back with more KVM VPS offers to share with the LowEndBox community! These VPS specials are available to deploy out of Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, San Jose, New York, and Ashburn. All plans...

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RackNerd - 1 GB RAM KVM VPS $14.88/Year, and more! Available in Multiple Locations

"My God! What's the Price on That?" We Land on TikTok

I kinda like going thrifting If I get it for the low we're business yeah Whoa, my God, what's the price on that, whoa! You can tell me that these things don't matter But I know that You like high pric...

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The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Today we continue our interview series with LowEndTalk member @m4nu, proprietor of PikaPods.  What are PikaPods, you ask?  A very cool service where you pick apps to host and they do all the work.  It...

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The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

Amazon's Ohio datacenter experienced a significant outage today.  Amazon reported that "some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of p...

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Amazon Broke the Internet Today.  Good Sales Tactic?

New Trans-Pacific Cable: Will It Improve Asia Bandwidth?

NEC revealed that they have taken a contract to build a new trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable called JUNO. The new cable (which will be 10,000km or about 7,000 miles long) is expected to be completed in...

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New Trans-Pacific Cable: Will It Improve Asia Bandwidth?

Google Still Addicted to Third Party Cookies, May Need to Go to Rehab

Everyone is making too much money using third party cookies so they're not going away "yet". You may recall that back in January of 2020, Google announced that they were going to remove third party co...

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Google Still Addicted to Third Party Cookies, May Need to Go to Rehab

BulletHost: Start Your VPS Company for Less Than €70/Month! Cheap Shared and VPS Offers in Bulgaria, Too!

We last saw BulletHost most recently back on April.  Now they're back with a new logo, new colors, and new offers including some really unusual stuff. First, you've got your basic good deals: DirectAd...

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BulletHost: Start Your VPS Company for Less Than €70/Month!  Cheap Shared and VPS Offers in Bulgaria, Too!

Does WHMCS License Verify Even Work?

When a new host comes along, one of the standard checks I make is to ensure that they are not using a cracked version of WHMCS.  Since time immemorial, the LowEndTalk selling rules have stated that "U...

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Does WHMCS License Verify Even Work?

That's Just Ridiculous Pricing. VPS for Under $4/YEAR? Wow!

WebHorizon, a long-time community provider, recently posted a deal on LowEndTalk with some eye-popping prices. Check this out: Get a 256MB VPS with IPv4 and IPv6 and a 1Gbps port in 7 locations on 3 c...

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That's Just Ridiculous Pricing.  VPS for Under $4/YEAR?  Wow!

What the Heck is a NAT VPS, Anyway?

Stay tuned for a post in a few hours with a fantastic NAT VPS offer! For some time, it was the norm to get an IPv4 when you rented a VM.  One VM = 1 IPv4 and life was simple. Then humans kept breeding...

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What the Heck is a NAT VPS, Anyway?

Apple Silicon: A Hard Use Review

I'm an Apple fanboy.  Actually, I'm a Unix fanboy and I find macOS to be the best desktop expression of that OS.  I wouldn't want to run macOS on my servers - I use Linux or *BSD for that - but for de...

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Apple Silicon: A Hard Use Review

Summer Special from NextArray! 1GB VPS for $9.99/YEAR!

Welcome back, NextArray! They dazzled us with some cheap colo offers in the past, but now there's back with a Summer Special on VMs! Get a 1GB/1vcpu/10GB SSD VM with 1TB of storage for only $9.99/year...

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Summer Special from NextArray!  1GB VPS for $9.99/YEAR!

Own a Network of Data Centers for Less than $150!

You might think that buying an interest in a global network of data centers would cost you tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.  But you can get in cheaper.  Way cheaper.  How cheap?  Less than $1...

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Own a Network of Data Centers for Less than $150!

FEEDBACK REQUESTED: What Should Our Next Social Media Presence Be?

You can get LowEndBox and LowEndTalk on all the big platforms: Twitter: Follow us! Facebook: Like us! YouTube: Watch us! Where should we go next?  Instagram?  TikTok?  Pinterest?  LinkedIn?  Or perhap...

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FEEDBACK REQUESTED: What Should Our Next Social Media Presence Be?
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