raindog308, Author at LowEndBox

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Aug 09, 2021

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Unlike most hosting companies, DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) is a publicly-traded company and hence must file quarterly audited financial reports. While there are other big hosting companies that must fil...

MXroute Subscription Sale: 25% Off!

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Aug 09, 2021

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The community's favorite mail provider, MXroute, is having a sale! MXroute's owner, @jar, is giving a salute to TuffMail, which is going out of business. Although the provided discount...

WebHorizon Launches New Brand: NatVPS.net

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Aug 08, 2021

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Community provider WebHorizon has launched a new NAT-focused brand, NatVPS.net, with service in the Asia Pacific region (Singapore, Hong Kong), Europe (Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland),...

Get Notified via Email Whenever Someone Logs In To Your VPS

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Aug 08, 2021

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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" thou...

Get Notified via Email Whenever Someone Logs In To Your VPS

LowEndBoxTV Weekend Update for August 7, 2021

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Aug 07, 2021

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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...

LowEndBoxTV Weekend Update for August 7, 2021

Verisign Increasing .COM Fees September 1. NameSilo Increasing Them Even More

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Aug 06, 2021

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Comments (3)

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...

Verisign Increasing .COM Fees September 1. NameSilo Increasing Them Even More

LLHost: 1GB RAM VPS for 2.99EUR/mo with Unmetered 100mbps in the Netherlands, Poland, or Western USA!

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Aug 06, 2021

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Comments (11)

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...

LLHost: 1GB RAM VPS for 2.99EUR/mo with Unmetered 100mbps in the Netherlands, Poland, or Western USA!

LowEndTalk Member Creates Homemade Datacenter UPS Out of Tesla Batteries

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Aug 05, 2021

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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...

Provider 911: Why Aren’t You Selling on eBay?

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Aug 05, 2021

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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...

Provider 911: Why Aren’t You Selling on eBay?

Let the Generational Wars Begin: Millenial.Host Tires of Their Misspelled Name, Rebrands as MLNL.Host

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Aug 04, 2021

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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...

Let the Generational Wars Begin: Millenial.Host Tires of Their Misspelled Name, Rebrands as MLNL.Host

Industry Roundtable: The Chia-Driven Hard Drive Shortage

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Aug 03, 2021

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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...

Industry Roundtable: The Chia-Driven Hard Drive Shortage

AIT Returns With Unlimited Bandwidth VMs in North Carolina Starting at $4.99/mo!

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Aug 03, 2021

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Comments (3)

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....

AIT Returns With Unlimited Bandwidth VMs in North Carolina Starting at $4.99/mo!

Provider 911: Tricks of the LowEnd Marketing Masters

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Aug 02, 2021

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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...

Provider 911: Tricks of the LowEnd Marketing Masters

NexusBytes Acquires SmallWeb

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Aug 02, 2021

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SmallWeb 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...

Excellence at Every Layer of the Stack: Interview with John Barker, Founder of SolaDrive

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Aug 01, 2021

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Comments (4)

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...

Excellence at Every Layer of the Stack: Interview with John Barker, Founder of SolaDrive

LowEndBox TV Weekend Update for July 31, 2021

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Jul 31, 2021

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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...

LowEndBox TV Weekend Update for July 31, 2021

PayPal Rates Increasing on August 2nd

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Jul 30, 2021

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Comments (5)

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...

Community News: Rocky Linux OS Now Available on RackNerd’s Platform!

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Jul 30, 2021

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Comments (4)

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...

Community News: Rocky Linux OS Now Available on RackNerd’s Platform!

“A Badass Provider I Recommend”: Former LET Admin About 1GServers Dual e5 Special!

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Jul 30, 2021

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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....

RawSRV: Now in Miami! (2GB VPS with Unmetered Bandwidth for $9.50/mo!)

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Jul 29, 2021

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Comments (7)

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...

RawSRV: Now in Miami! (2GB VPS with Unmetered Bandwidth for $9.50/mo!)

Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

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Jul 28, 2021

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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...

Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees

Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

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Jul 28, 2021

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Comments (6)

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...

Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

SmallWeb Suffers “Catastrophic Data Loss” in London

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Jul 27, 2021

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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...

SmallWeb Suffers “Catastrophic Data Loss” in London

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

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Jul 27, 2021

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Comments (20)

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...

Boomer.Host: Free Stickers with Every Order! $7.95/Year for a 1GB VPS!

IncogNet: 50% Off with Crypto Payment Until July 31!

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Jul 26, 2021

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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....

How to Verify WHMCS Licenses

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Jul 26, 2021

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