Dead Horse Beating Itself: CharityHost Rebranding as ExactVM
CharityHost is rebranding (again), this time as ExactVM. So now we're waiting for ExactVMgate, which should happen any day now.
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Not Quite Jimi Hendrix but Getting Closer: Move Over Simply Guitar, Yousician Blows You Away
If you're trying to learn an instrument, gamification is a concept that could play a huge role in your success. It's worked very well for me. A followup on an earlier post from last October.
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The Time a Dutch University Made Huge Profits When It Suffered a Ransomware Attack
Ransomware is always a rough experience. Do you pay? Do you go through a laborious recovery? How do you manage outraged users? And what if you made over €300K in profit in the experience?
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Huckleberry Finn's Ray Gun: How Mocking AI Puts Dollars in an Advertiser's Pocket
Remember the part in Mark Twain's 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck uses a laser sniper rifle? Me neither.
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"Hey, That Was My Open Source Project That Just Blew up a Third of Russia's Strategic Long Range Bombers!"
As you've undoubtedly read by now, a sophisticated Ukrainian operation (Operation Spider's Web) launched drones from prepositioned storage crates outside four Russian air bases and blew up about a third of Russia's strategic long-range bomber fleet. What's been less noted is the open source software that powered these systems.
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MinIO Gives the Finger to Its Users: Pony Up $96,000, Suckers!
Everyone knows MinIO, a popular S3-compatible object storage platform. It used to have a lot of love in the community. Then it decided it didn't want its community any more.
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[Community News] RackNerd Restocks Ashburn VPS with Major Network Upgrades
Popular LEB provider, RackNerd, consistently voted as a top provider year over year by the LowEndTalk community, and recognized multiple times on the Inc. 5000 list for its rapid growth, has today announced a significant restock of their popular Ashburn VPS location after being sold out for several months in a row. Read on to learn more...and get in on their cheap VPS deals starting at under $11/year!
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Think You Need a VPN Subscription? Here’s Why You’re Dead Wrong
VPN has become so mainstream a lot of people don't even known what "VPN" stands for, but know they need one. From streamers looking to bypass regional restrictions to security-conscious netizens evading trackers to people looking to get around the recent craze of laws requiring registration to view porn, everyone is using VPNs in 2025. The market is saturated with commercial VPN providers promising anonymity, speed, and security. So if you need a VPN, it's just a question of searching for the right coupons to sign up, right? Not so fast.
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The Latest BackBlaze Drive Stats Report Out and One Maker's Numbers are Troubling
The latest BackBlaze drive stats report was released today. The quarterly reports offer invaluable insight into real-world, hard-use hard drive statistics.
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LowEndBoxTV: FREE AI-Powered Video Content for Your YouTube Channel!
Want to generate high quality AI-authored videos at home, for free, without sending any data to the cloud? Piotr walks us through using Wan 2.1, an awesome model from Alibaba.
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The Upcoming Crunchbits Charity Event: We Don't Have All the Details Yet But It Sounds Extremely Cool!
Community provider Crunchbits is organizing a community-wide charity event on LowEndTalk, to be launched later this month. It's shaping up to be a big event in our community and we plan to promote it to the hilt. Rewards for those who donate, publicity for participating hosts, and a lot of money going to a worthy cause. We don't have all the details yet, but we got a head's up and permission to share a teaser with you.
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Habemus Papam! Welcome, Pope Leo XIV. BTW, Does the Vatican Have a Datacenter? (Yes - Pics Inside)
Pope Leo XIV is here! Let's take a quick peek at the Vatican's datacenter and online presence.
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Are Some People Allergic to Wi-Fi?
Do some people develop serious illnesses when exposed to the electromagnetic fields that Wi-Fi routers, cell phones, and other modern devices emit? According to believers, exposure to WiFi, cell phones, and other electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can cause nausea, fatigue, headaches, skin rashes, memory problems, and more.
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A $1,000 Gift May Be Landing In Your Backyard, Courtesy of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union may drop a space egg worth $1,000 in your backyard in mid-May. Let's look at the odds and
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The Uncharitable Website About Charity Host: The Scandal Escalates
The CharityHost story just keeps going. There's been a half-dozen lengthy threads on LowEndTalk and now there's a site setup to consolidate all the scandal information.
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32GB RAM for $5 first month! Wow! That's pretty amazing, and that's what Hostiger has for you in Istanbul.
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Exotic Locations: Where the Datacenters are, from a LowEnd Perspective
What is an "exotic" geography? One in which there are few datacenters and few offers. One LowEndTalk member has proposed categories, and it's pretty accurate.
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Recent Drama: The Ethics of Scanning Hosted Files
If you put something in private FTP space and the provider flags it as a violation of their AUP, is that an invasion of your privacy? The community seems to think so and doesn't like it.
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The LowEndTalk Member Who Lost $4,100 on "Lifetime" Hosting Deals: A Cautionary Tale
Recently I exchanged PMs with a LowEndTalk member who lost $4,100 on lifetime offers. Are those kinds of offers safe? A scam? How should you think about them?
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Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked
Every checklist you've ever seen for securing your VPS includes "update your system regularly". But is that one of those "best practices" that is more theoretical than a real-world necessity? To be honest, it's easy to not get around to running "apt update && apt upgrade". In my experience, at least with Debian, updates rarely break things but it's always a small risk. Nevertheless, it requires remembering to do it, spending the commands run, maybe rebooting, etc. Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that skipping OS updates can leave even the best admins wide open to disaster.
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How Big Can Tiny microSD Cards Get? Limits, Physics, and the Road Ahead
Last week I was preparing for a long plane ride. I grabbed my preferred travel video player - an Amazon Kindle Fire, which has a handy microSD port - and dug out a fingernail-sized piece of storage media to insert. It occurred to me that this tiny centimeter-sized slab of plastic and silicon holds more data (1TB) than the entirety of the first datacenter I worked in back in the early 90s. What does the future portend for this popular format?
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Beancount: Lightweight FOSS Double-Entry Accounting...from the Command Line!
Beancount is a neat FOSS project with a simple concept: full double-entry accounting from the command line. It's a very simple idea, well-implemented, with some neat add-on tools.
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Ten Countries That Turned Their TLDs Into Gold (And Which Are Cheapest For You)
When the internet was first taking shape, the idea of country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was simple: give every nation its own digital space. What no one expected was that some countries would find themselves sitting on virtual gold mines — not from their native users, but from clever marketers and businesses around the world who saw these two-letter domains as branding shortcuts.
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The Man Who Was Paid €113,000 For His Code Which Compressed Entire Movies in 8KB of Disk...And Then He Died
Imagine if you could encode any HD movie down to 8KB. That's what Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot promised the world back in 1999, and he pocketed a nice check from investors to make it work. Alas, he died shortly thereafter. Was he on to something?
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Five Different Ways to Read Any News Article for FREE
In these days of subscription fatigue, shelling out another $5 or $10 a month for yet another monthly fee can be...well, fatiguing. Is there a magic ticket that lets you read around any paywall? Surprisingly, the answer is "most of the time".
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The Cubanization of Servers: How Tariffs Might Freeze the Hosting Industry in Time
On the island nation of Cuba, cars from the 1940s and 1950s dominate the landscape. This isn't due to passionate classic car enthusiasm. We might see similar adaptations to scarcity coming to a LowEnd hosting provider near you.
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The Top Free Website Builders: Expert Tested and Reviewed
We’ve reviewed the top free website builders, comparing their strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases. Whether you're looking for simplicity, creative control, or long-term scalability, this guide will help you find the platform that fits.
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