In this tutorial we'll show you how to configure your VPS so that every time someone logs in, you receive an email alerting you to this fact. This is kind of a "lowend intrusion detection system" though it may have other uses. For example, if you need to audit what staff are doing or if you've got third parties accessing your system. Configuring Email We don't need to be able to receive mail, but we do need to be able to...
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Shots fired! Intergeneratinal war has broken out in the LowEnd market and we also talk about Chia pets, DIY UPSes, selling VPSes on eBay and much more, including offers for cheap VPSes around the worl...
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Sorry to harsh your summer buzz, but that Verisign announcement from back in February that you briefly grumbled about and then forgot because it was in the future is now relevant. As of September 1, y...
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Welcome, LLHost! They're a Romanian hosting company based in Bucharest (or București if you want to use the Romanian spelling) and are bringing us a full range of cheap VPS and cheap dedicated server...
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Long-time community member @randvegeta has been sharing the story of his Lithium-powered datacenter UPS setup on LowEndTalk. He is the proprietor of MLNL.host, a cheap VPS provider we featured yester...
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Do you sell VPS services on eBay? What? Yes, it's true that on one of the world's biggest marketplaces, you can buy VPS services along with Beanie Babies, sports cards, and DDR2 RAM. If you search eBa...
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You've seen boomer.host...and now the generational host wars are in full swing as Millenial.Host [sic] has sprung into existence to represent its generation. Now Millenial.Host has been...
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Every month, LowEndBox puts a question in front of hosting industry leaders and LEB community providers, who are invited to comment and offer their perspective. Our goal is to stimulate discussion ar...
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AIT has returned with another great unlimited bandwidth offer on some cheap VPS systems! We last had an offer for them on June 11, 2021. Get a 1GB VPS with unlimited transfer for only $4.99/mo (or $4....
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It's no secret that some hosts have found ways to make their offers stand out on LowEndTalk and other hosting forums. If you look at LowEndTalk's offers category, you'll see a myriad of offers and th...
Read MoreSmallWeb announced Friday that they are being acquired by NexusBytes, effective August 1, 2021. Full details are available in an email sent to customers, which has also been posted on LowEndTalk. Mich...
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Our interview series has featured a lot of industry leaders and we continue today by talking with John Barker, Founder and President of Operations of SolaDrive, an enterprise managed solutions provide...
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Jacked up fees, how Bezos is funding his space ride, the emergence of Rocky Linux, senior citizen hosting - this might just be our wackiest episode yet! We've also got a tutorial, and lots more indus...
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PayPal announced earlier this month that they are jacking up their fees...er, we meant to say, "making changes to published rates to better align pricing with the value their products and services pro...
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Rocky Linux offered their first official release (8.4) on June 21st and now providers are adding it as an option to their hosting platforms. If you're not familiar, Rocky Linux is CentOS Reborn. You...
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Normally, providers choose whether to post on LowEndBox, and submit offers for our readers. From time to time, we also choose to highlight offers posted on our sister site, LowEndTalk....
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RawSRV has returned! We last featured them back on June 13, 2021. They provide "no frills VPS hosting" in both Los Angeles and Miami and this time they've got an exclusive LEB coupon. For $9.50 per m...
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In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS's egress fees are too high. According to CF's calculations, customers are paying: 80 times Amazon's costs in the US, Canada, and Europe...
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A user on LowEndTalk reported that shared hosting provider SmallWeb has emailed customers to report that their London shared hosting has suffered a "catastrophic data loss". "Dear friend, At 6:03PM UK...
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Hello, Boomer.Host! Some hosts are deadly serious when it comes to their names and some prefer a bit of humor and I don't have to tell you which category Boomer.Host falls into. However the proprieto...
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Normally, providers choose whether to post on LowEndBox, and submit offers for our readers. From time to time, we also choose to highlight offers posted on our sister site, LowEndTalk....
Read MoreWhen new provider submit offers, one of the many checks we perform is to see if their WHMCS license is valid (assuming they're using WHMCS of course). Generally about once a month we get an offer from...
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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rackspace announced Friday that they are laying off 10% of their workforce. "On July 21, 2021, the Company [Rackspace] committed to an inter...
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This week we covered free cookies (that you don't want), hard drives driven hard, cyber insurers driven crazy, Afrinic crackdowns, and more! We also had an interview, three tutorials, multiple offers,...
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RackNerd is back to share some promotions with us out of their Los Angeles location. These offers are powered by pure SSD’s and Dual Intel Xeon processors. This datacenter has an optimized network mix...
Read MoreOur interview series has featured a lot of industry leaders and we continue today by talking with Joe Green, Director of Product Management for ManagedWay. In this interview, you'll learn how the comp...
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AFRINIC (the Regional Internet Authority for Africa which controls allocations of IP addresses on that continent) appears to be cracking down on people who obtain African IPs and use them elewhere. Co...
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Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies
I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen a...
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