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Why It May Be Illegal to Pay Ransomeware and Why a Ban on Payments Won’t Work

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If your organization's data is being held for ransom by hackers, should you pay up?  The universal consensus is that you shouldn't because it encourages criminals.  But an earlier question needs to be: is it legal to pay? They answer is not as straight-forward as you might assume.  Let's assume your companies servers are locked up by thieves and although you don't want you pay, you decide you have no choice. How are you m...

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Your WordPress Has Been Scanned. Hope You Weren’t Hacked.

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Jul 18, 2022
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Wordfence reports that hackers are widely attempting to exploit a vulnerability that they reported over three months ago.  According to The Register: Wordfence disclosed the flaw almost three months a...

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ALMOST GONE: Save 90% on Shodan.io! Only $5 Lifetime!

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Jul 17, 2022
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LowEndTalk member @Chuck alerted the community to a terrific deal: you can get a full access lifetime membership for Shodan.io for only $5 - that's 90% off the list price! However the deal expires at...

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“We Can’t Send Email More than 500 Miles”. A True Story.

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Jul 16, 2022
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I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department. "We're having a problem sending email out of the department." "W...

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Annihilate Inflation by Slashing Your Hosting Bill: Cheap Shared Hosting From $2.50 Per YEAR From VisualWebTechnologies!

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Jul 16, 2022
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Hello again, VWT! If you're new, here's the deal with VWT: they have great prices on cheap shared web hosting, both for cPanel and DirectAdmin.  Now there was some kerfluffle about an interview a whil...

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Fresh Meat! Check Out Neqtor’s 4GB for $9.90/Month Offer in KC: 50% OFF First Month!

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Jul 15, 2022
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Neqtor is here!  They're a hosting startup offering service out of Kansas City. And I do mean startup: just founded in 2022.  So if you're looking for a host with a decade of demonstrated excellence,...

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Your DirectAdmin Cost Might Be Going Up By 250%

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Jul 14, 2022
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The community's favorite web hosting control panel is raising prices. The popularity of retail Pro Pack licensing has surged over the past few years while volume growth of legacy licensing (licenses w...

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What’s Going on with NexusBytes?

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Jul 13, 2022
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A while back, a company named NexusBytes appeared in our community. They had very good prices and their marketing was pretty sharp. Instead of just "X GB = $X" price listing, they presented some attra...

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Become a Certified Datacenter Associate Online…for FREE!

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I sometimes peek at HostingJournalist and I saw this article come across the feed. More than 650,000 users of data centers have taken more than one million courses from Schneider Electric University,...

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Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour

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Jul 12, 2022
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"Today Intel released two security advisories addressing 2 medium severity vulnerabilities reported by academic researchers from ETH Zurich who have labeled their side-channel attack as “Retbleed” due...

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There are 19,000 Crypto Coins in the World, and 18,980 of Them are Going Bust

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Jul 11, 2022
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The bold prediction you read in the headlines come from Paul Krake, a former hedge fund manager. Crypto is BS, complete BS. I'm the ultimate skeptic on crypto. China can never ban crypto? China banned...

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Guest Post: Top Five Reasons Why Most Businesses Either Fail or Stay Stagnant by Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd

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Continuing our Guest Article Series, today we are talking with Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd, about why businesses either fail or stay stagnant, and how you can avoid that for your own business....

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LowEndBox Redesign is Live! What Do You Think?

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Jul 10, 2022
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As you may have noticed, we've give the place a fresh paint job, spackled over some rough spots, and had someone with some actual taste (no offense LEAdmin) come in and renovate things. Welcome to Low...

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Should You Invest in Pure-Play Hosting Companies like DOCN or RTX? Analysis Says…

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Jul 09, 2022
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When looking for pure play hosting companies to analyze, there aren't many with public financials.  The largest public webs are all components of larger companies.  AWS is part of Amazon, Azure is par...

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Whore Presents? Molestation Nursery? Friday Fun: Be Careful When Picking Domain Names!

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Jul 08, 2022
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Choosing a domain name should be pretty easy.  For most companies you simply add a ".com" to your company name and you're good to go.  That is, unless mashing the letters in your name together makes a...

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Welcome, DediRock and Thanks for the Sweet Dedi Offer!

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Jul 07, 2022
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Welcome, DediRock! They're expanding onto the world scene and are bringing a nice dedi offer for our community. Dual E5 64GB RAM 15 TB bandwidth 5 locations to choose from ...$67!  Nice. These systems...

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Commifying Numbers in Linux: Not as Easy as it Looks

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Jul 07, 2022
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Today I had a need to process large numbers of PostgreSQL database tables and report how many rows were in each.  Once I had that information, I needed to do some additional math on this data and then...

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CoinPayments Pulls Out of the US, Creating Chaos for Users

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"In light of a constantly changing market in the United States of America, CoinPayments Inc. and UAB Star Ventures are at this time discontinuing services to and access to our platform by U.S. users."...

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Ahoy! HostSailor Wants to Sell You a VPS and You Probably Want to Buy It

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Jul 06, 2022
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HostSailor has returned! We haven't seen them since Black Friday 2021.  Welcome back, guys! They're bringing us an offer today for VMs in Los Angeles, California, USA, and the start at only $2.99/mont...

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HostDare Deal on LowEndTalk: Check for an Exclusive Code!

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Jul 05, 2022
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HostDare shared an offer on LowEndTalk for some KVM SSD VPSes in Los Angeles. Get a 1GB system with 1TB of bandwidth for only $3.59/month! Nice price on 2GB systems, too.  You'll need the code in the...

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BackBlaze (BLZE) to be Acquired. You Heard it Here First.

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Jul 04, 2022
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When Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) went public last November, I thought it might be an interesting play, but I didn't like the valuation or the earnings. And I still don't. And this concerns me because I'm...

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Declare Your Independence from High-Cost Hosts with Our Weekend Deals Thread!

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Jul 03, 2022
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Happy Fourth of July! As we celebrate America's independence, I'd like to draw your attention to a fabulous deals thread on LowEndTalk.  It's petty casual and doesn't have the scope or depth of our bi...

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4th of July Sale from CloudServer: Minds Officially Blown!

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One interesting metric for looking at VPS offers is "how much GB of RAM per month does it cost".  For example, DigitalOcean will charge you $6/GB/month because a 1GB VPS costs $6/month. Sometimes we s...

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Comment in CloudCone’s LowEndTalk Thread to Win Prizes! Plus a Cheap VPS Deal: 2GB KVM @ $29/Yr!

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We haven't mentioned CloudCone since way back in 2020.  But we're mentioning them now, because they're having a birthday sale...and a giveaway! As they wrote on LowEndTalk: "Enter our crazy Birthday G...

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TikTok Won’t Stop Sending US Data to China, So Gov’t to Force App Ban

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Goodbye, TikTok. According to news reports, both Apple and Google have received letters from the FCC requesting they remove the TikTok app from their app stores.  Neither Apple nor Google has commente...

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What’s better than a 1GB VPS in Tokyo for Under $5/Month? I’ll Tell You

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Jun 29, 2022
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We had a nice offer pop up on LowEndTalk from KuaiCheDao.  They're offering 1GB VPS in Toky for only $4.87/month on a semi-annual contract. What really jumped out at me, though, was the comment by LET...

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KVM and OpenVZ 7 Yearly VPS Offers in USA, France, and Canada – HostNamaste

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It's always a pleasure to see HostNamaste back on LowEndBox because they always bring exceptional value to our community. Case in point: Get a 2GB OpenVZ VPS with 2TB of bandwidth for only $36/year! O...

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Silicom Network: Shared Hosting from $3/Year in Texas, USA!

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Jun 28, 2022
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We saw Silicom Network most recently back on May 13.  There were some interesting comments, and that's what I love about posting offers.  The community puts its experience on the table, the host has a...

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