Lots of people want to automate their system setup, and this is frequently done by either using the provider's new VM hooks to run a script at setup time or later using something like Ansible. If you are trying to automate MariaDB/MySQL installations, it's easy enough to install MariaDB (e.g., apt-get -y mariadb-server) but you typically want to run the mysql_secure_installation script afterwards to clean up some of the o...
Read MoreHere's a pretty cool offer from ArticHost, featuring both an unusual locale and some technology we don't see every day. Get a VPS in Chicago that lives on replicated SSD SAN Storage starting at only $...
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In the United States, taxes are due April 15, though a lot of people get theirs filed earlier in the year if they're expecting a refund on overpayment. How are you planning to spend your tax refund?...
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We feature many great offers here on LowEndBox, but you'll also find some unique provider postings on our sister site, LowEndTalk. If you're in the market for great hosting, be sure to check both sit...
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RackNerd probably doesn’t need much of a introduction around here, but in the unlikely event that you don’t know about RackNerd yet, they won “LowEndTalk’s Best Provider” award in 2020 and were recent...
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Being a provider means mastering many challenges - customer support, security, networks, and many more. One of the most challenging is marketing. How do you get the word out about your services? Ho...
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The staff at LowEndBox would like to take a moment to recognize several advertisers who've recently come on board: OnApp: These are the guys behind cloud.net, a soup-to-nuts SaaS cloud platform...
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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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We regularly post offers for the cheapest VPSes on the planet...but did you know there are places you can get a VPS for free? Naturally there are caveats, provisos, and gotchas, but if your budget is...
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In this post we continue our interview series with Steve Fenton, Head of Marketing of OnApp. OnApp recently released Cloud.net, an exciting new cloud platform - read on for more details! You also mi...
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Welcome, RoboVPS! Couldn't resist using the bruiser on their home page for this offer. Hopefully he's the guy who guards the datacenter. They've been in business since 2003 and have several long-ser...
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HostBastic made their first offer back January 5, 2021 and now they've returned with some DirectAdmin-based shared hosting in Singapore, London, or Eastern US starting at only £3.00/year! That's abou...
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Hello again, ProwHost! We last had an offer for them on February 13, 2021. They're bringing us some deeply discounted shared hosting offers starting at just 99 cents per month. And I'll add that you...
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We feature many great offers here on LowEndBox, but you'll also find some unique provider postings on our sister site, LowEndTalk. If you're in the market for great hosting, be sure to check both sit...
Read MoreThere's an old adage about backups: There are two kinds of people: people who've never lost data, and people who'll never lose data again. If you've ever experienced data loss, you will instantly beco...
Read MoreSome of you may remember the ABC Wide World of Sports intro which pronounced they were "spanning the globe to bring you constant variety in sports". AcroServers isn't sports programming, but they are...
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Most folks use Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, with the occasional pro using RedHat or the hipster using Arch. But there are over 1,000 Linux distros! Not all are suitable for running on a VPS of course,...
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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we recently received a new submission from Dustin B. Cisneros over at RackNerd to let everybody know that AlmaLinux is now officially available a...
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JustVPS is new to LEB and this is their first offer. They're offering VMs and Wordpress hosting in Singapore. That's a less common hosting location than the major geographies (SF Bay, NYC, Dallas, N...
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AlphaVPS contacted us to present a smokin' hot offer in Sofia, Bulgari: 2GB EPYC-based KVM with 1TB of bandwidth for only €3.99/month! Or double the RAM and bandwidth for only €4.99/month! Or quadrupl...
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A long time ago in a galaxy...well, in Florida, there was a company called BackupDragon. They provided backup VPSes, in a time when these were not yet common. Today, "storage VPSes" are all over the...
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Welcome back, HostSailor! They last gave us an offer back on January 25, 2021. They're a steady advertiser on LowEndTalk and a frequent visitor to LEB. This time they're bringing some VPSes in the N...
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Most of the time, we feature industry news, or tutorials as a “guest post”. From time to time, we also want to bring to you interesting finds, related to the hosting industry that we’ve discovered. Ou...
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ProximCloud has been a standout shared hosting provider on LEB since they started posting offers with us in April 2020 - one year ago! They were last on back in February 22, 2021 when we celebrated t...
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Database tuning is an art, rather than a science. I speak as someone who's worked as a professional DBA for over 15 years and is certified in multiple commercial RDBMS techologies. There is no set of...
Read MoreWe don't see a lot of offers in Singapore and if that is a location that interests you, you'll enjoy this offer from WebHorizon. This is their first appearance on LowEndBox and they're bringing us so...
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Of all the categories I thought we might add to LowEndBox one day, "Datacenter Fires" was not on my short list. But maybe we need to create this section. On the heels of OVH's huge SBG Datacenter fi...
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Comment Free For All: Which Obscure Linux Distro Do You Regularly Use?
Recently, we asked you which obscure linux distro you regularly used. After all, someone has to use some of the 1,000 Linux distros in existence. Some of the interesting comments: I use TinyCore Linu...
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